Access to custom fields in dictionary

[Gary Walborn]

All:

I am going to use field 8 in my dictionary entries for a special
purpose. I would like to be able to easily edit this field when working
with a dictionary. Is there any easy way to do this? For example, when
I do:

MODIFY DICT FRTHDR

I would like to be able to easily see and change field 8 for any of my
defined fields.

Thanks in advance,

Gary Walborn
gwal...@gmail.com

[Ashley Chapman]

On 1 February 2011 19:27, Gary Walborn <gwal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All:
>
>        I am going to use field 8 in my dictionary entries for a special
> purpose.  I would like to be able to easily edit this field when working
> with a dictionary.  Is there any easy way to do this?  For example, when
> I do:
>
> MODIFY DICT FRTHDR
>
> I would like to be able to easily see and change field 8 for any of my
> defined fields.

No simple way that I know of. You are just going to have to use the
editor or SED. Or write your own routine. That's what I did, as part
of Anji. It's not in my public GPL release yet (I must get around to
building a better release mechanism, so I can do frequent updates).

Also, I've been using field 8 for a variety of uses. I've notionally
defined it as multivalued - one value for each defined usage. E.G.
<8,1> for pop-up help text code
<8,2> for foreign key filename (same as AREV verifile)
<8,3> ...

Hope that helps

Ashley Chapman

[tom h]

Hi,

Sorry to resurrect this really old thread. Its probably pointless now, but it was a puzzle I couldn't resist.

HTH, tom H

 :ED VOC MOD.DICT
VOC MOD.DICT
2 line(s)
----: P
0001: PA
0002: MODIFY DICT <<I2,FileName>> <<I3,ItemId>> F1 LOC CNV D.NAME FORMAT SM ASSOC F8
Bottom at line 2
----:
****
:MOD.DICT STUFF COLOR

MODIFY DICT STUFF

Id: COLOR
  1: TYPE/DESC=D
  2: LOC      =1
  3: CONV     =
  4: NAME     =COLOR
  5: FORMAT   =10L
  6: S/M      =S
  7: ASSOC    =
  8: F8       =Attribute for stuff.

...
Action(n/FI/Q/?):

[Ashley Chapman]

That's nice!  Brilliantly simple.  Should be there as standard.  Thanks.

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[Gene Buckle]

Now THIS is cool. Thanks Tom!

g.

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