Hey folks,
As I've mentioned before - I work on these legacy type systems - which essentially look like FP for DOS with the old Blue screens. For each client - they get an Exe - with things like the main splash screen, menu, procedure files - and such. The rest of the system are FXP's that we give them. So - at all cost we try to avoid touching anything that would require building a new EXE. Especially for our Biggest client (since the EXE can NOT be updated during the daytime - and even evening updates are a bit dicey - since they have Cali operations - where as we are in NY). And, its this Big client for whom I need to make a change. So - long story short. There is a procedure that is call from Numerous places in the system, which does a kind of controlled "Browse" that can get integrated into screens with other data also on the screen. That "Browse" displays a small set of options under it - telling the user what keys can be used to interact with the data - to move around - but, it also has the ability to pass in an Extra option - to be displayed under the data - and allow usage of special key to add additional functionality. The value of the key pressed is sent back from the procedure - so the calling program can detect if the user hit Esc, Enter, the special key - etc. The problem is - in the past I hadn't really looked much at this procedure - but, only called it from various programs - or updated programs that were already calling it. And, so, recently - I had assumed you could pass in MORE than One special key. But, now I find out that is not the case - and I wanted to enable a 2nd special option for this data browsing on one particular screen. So - I thought I could work around the limitation - and also NOT Touch the procedure. I attempted to use the ON KEY LABEL command. However, in that procedure - it uses the INKEY command to capture the keystrokes. And, it looks to me that when the INKEY command is running (with the Zero parameter) - that the ON KEY LABEL Command gets completely Ignored! And, I confirmed this with a small test program. As such - does anyone have a suggestion. Otherwise - and I hate to do this - I may pull that "Browsing" procedure into the program I am working on - and update the procedure (maybe as a different name) - and directly change that procedure to do what I want. But, was just hoping for a more elegant solution... Thanks, -K- Senior Developer Waitex Information System, Inc. P Save a tree. Don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a140e260...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
