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- From: someday@hardy.u.washington.edu (Scott Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Revelation paint -- Define Page
- Keywords: Revelation Paint
- Message-ID: <1k46l6INNt7l@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:24:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: shelley.1k46l6INNt7l
- References: <1993Jan26.032116.14607@massey.ac.nz> <cpetersn.728025414@vincent2.iastate.edu>
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- In article <> cpetersn@iastate.edu (Clifton R Peterson) writes:
- >In <> DTodd@massey.ac.nz (D.M. Todd) writes:
- >
- >>How do you define pages in paint in 3.xx? The manual says to select
- >>the prompts to fit on a "page" and press F2 and select Define Page.
- >>I don't get a Define Page option.
-
- >I don't know what the problem is with your installation. On my 3.01, If I
- >select 1 prompt, press F2, I get a popup with about 15 items, numbers 10 and
- >11 are Define Page and Undefine Page. Pressing F1 from the popup gives a
- >help message for PROMPTOPTS2. If I select multiple prompts and press F2, I
- >get a popup with only 13 items (I think, didn't jot the number down), again
- >with 10 and 11 as above and the popup help is for PROMPTOPTS4.
- >
- >Are you selecting labels along with prompts before pressing F2? I don't know
- >if this is different (not multitasking so I can't switch back to AREV) than
- >selecting only prompts as regards the Options.
- >
- >Clif
-
- Bingo, Clif. If you get a label mixed in with the selected prompts,
- then several options do vanish from the Options list.
-
- Strangely, the guy who wrote that section in the manual came to me
- today with exactly the same problem. He's now rewriting that
- paragraph to be less unclear.
-
- (I designed and coded that whole Options popup feature myself, so
- blame me for any part of it that doesn't make sense!)
-
- Scott Johnson
- Revelation Technologies
-