During a data entry statement, returns the (character string) value of the input field that the cursor is in to the current input field. At other times, returns the (character string) value of the input field the cursor was last in.
When the user presses END-ERROR while running this procedure, the procedure displays the name and value of the field the user was updating, along with the name of the table that contains that field.
r-frval.p
FOR EACH Customer: DISPLAY Customer.CustNum Customer.Name Customer.Address Customer.City Customer.State Customer.PostalCode WITH 1 COLUMN DOWN COLUMN 20. SET Customer.Address Customer.City Customer.State Customer.PostalCode. END. DISPLAY "You were updating field:" FRAME-FIELD FORMAT "x(20)" SKIP "Of file:" FRAME-FILE SKIP "And it had the value:" FRAME-VALUE FORMAT "x(20)" SKIP(2) "When you pressed the END-ERROR key." WITH FRAME helper NO-LABELS COLUMN 20 ROW 14 NO-BOX. |
FRAME-VALUE returns strings. If you use FRAME-VALUE to return a number, you must convert it prior to numeric comparisons. For example: