6.3 Cursor Location in Output Only Pop-up Windows
When you write your first pop-up window program that is "output only" (ie: no input capable fields) you will probably get a result like this on your first attempt:
------------ Screen cursor goes to here when the "Companies"
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This is clearly unacceptable, because the user has to move the screen cursor right across the screen and into the "Companies" pop-up window to select the desired company.
The simplest solution to this problem is: code the POP_UP command like this:
POP_UP ....whatever.... CURSOR_LOC(*ATFIELD #COMPNO)
which will cause the pop-up window to appear like this with the screen cursor under 0 in "01 ACME ENGINEERING":
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