In a message dated 1/8/99 5:39:23 PM, villager@... writes:

>The
>only thing I'll miss is FB's autoindent as now I spend a lot of time
>moving the cursor around and inserting spaces.


You are correct about this.  I, by falling back on my Kyan Pascal for the //e
days, am pretty used to having to hit the space bar to set the new indent.  It
is the "when to quit indenting" problem that bothers me.  I have developed
this technique, which is not real heavy, but has helped me use the FB
structures and figure out where things should quit indenting at the bottom of
a structure:

LOCAL
DIM x
LOCAL FN ReEnrollStudents                         'for changing quarters
  FOR x=1 TO gNumberOfStudents
    IF gDailyEntry%(x,gmyRecNumber,19)<>_NotEnrolled THEN
gDailyEntry%(x,1,19)=_Entered
  NEXT x
END FN

  Translating and {rem-ing} the FB extra syntax into the code something like
this:


Procedure ReEnrollStudents        {for changing quarters}
var
x: smallInt;
begin
  FOR x:=1 TO gNumberOfStudents do
    begin
    IF gDailyEntry[x,gmyRecNumber,19]<>_NotEnrolled THEN
     gDailyEntry[x,1,19]:=_Entered;
    end;  {NEXT x}
END;   { FN  }

Please don't beat me up if the Pascal does not actually work, I am just giving
a few seconds translation time to this in e-mail but thought the {next x} idea
worth mentioning as it has helped me debug and compare the two languages, and
keep margins more organized.

Hope this helps.  (you won't be sorry you went with Delphi.  *smile*}

George