dmittman@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Mittman) (12/01/90)
I am working with a stack of cards which has a background field of keywords. I am using the sharedText portion of the field for a list of all currently defined keywords, and the non-sharedText portion of the field for the keywords being used on a particular card. I can get either field contents by doing something like: set the sharedText of bg fld "Keyword" to true get bg fld "Keyword" I would like to be able to get the contents of the sharedText=true portion of the field without actually changing the sharedText attribute. If this were possible, I wouldn't have to go through the trouble of locking the screen during the change. Any ideas? - David Mittman DMittman@Beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV
Jim.Russell@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Russell) (12/06/90)
I'm fascinated that you discovered that there was an ability to keep both a shared and card specific field contents -- I don't recall seeing any documentation that promised that HC would preserve residual text when the shared text attribute of the field changed. Any reason why you could not accomplish the same thing with a second field, overlaying them and changing the visible attribute if you have to be able to show the user either? -- Jim Russell, Jim.Russell@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org via The Black Cat's Shack's FidoNet<->Usenet Gateway blkcat.fidonet.org and Fidonet 1:109/401