Paged Mode of DISPLAY ARRAY

The previous example retrieves all the rows from the customer table into the program array prior to the data being displayed by the DISPLAY ARRAY statement. Using this full list mode, you must copy into the array all the data you want to display. Using the DISPLAY ARRAY statement in paged mode allows you to provide data rows dynamically during the dialog, using a dynamic array to hold one page of data.

The following example modifies the program to use a SCROLL CURSOR to retrieve only the store_num values from the customer table. As the user scrolls thru the result set, statements in the ON FILL BUFFER clause of the DISPLAY ARRAY statement are used to retrieve and display the remainder of each row, a page of data at a time. This helps to minimize the possibility that the rows have been changed, since the rows are re-selected immediately prior to the page being displayed.