From: Mike Mohr To: All
I am trying to display a window showing the status of the program like the "Printing..." window on the ResourceLibrary. The window should show while I am building a subfile. I think I have the window coded alright because if I do an EXFMT to the window, it works; but if I do a WRITE to the window format, it never displays.
From: James Coolbaugh To: Mike Mohr
You must do either one of two things to make a WRITE put a screen out.
1. Change the display file to be DFRWRT(*NO).
2. Put the FRCDTA keyword on the format.
Formats are not displayed until a READ operation is performed by the program. This is the default for the AS/400. The above two methods are how you change this.
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