Progress
Programming
Handbook


Field- and Variable-level Design

Progress designs frames at compile time. In a top-to-bottom pass of your procedure, the Progress Compiler encounters fields, variables, and expressions and their related format specifications. The Compiler adds these fields and expressions to the layout of the appropriate frame. Progress always designs for all possible cases. That is, if there are several fields that might be displayed in a frame, Progress makes room for all of them.

As Progress designs each frame, it makes some decisions regarding the individual fields and variables in the frame:

For more information on field and variable display formats, see the DISPLAY Statement reference entry in the Progress Language Reference . Also see Representing Data." in this manual.


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