stuffing keyboard....cont

>> or under Sys V 3.2.x. I wrote a 4GL simulating sperform 2-screens >> interface. Upon pressing escape on one screen, I wanted to "stuff >> the buffer with an escape" so that when the next screen is >> displayed, it will get terminated and after input will do the >> checking. I tried, and tried .... and finally resorted to >> asking the user to press the esc key again. It would be very >> useful if the above was possible... >> Mukesh >The method I use to determine whether to go on to the next screen or not >is to set a global flag on exit of the last field of the first form. >Set your flag to FALSE before input from the first screen. Check the value >on exit from input. If the value is TRUE then you know you should probably >pull up the next screen. If it's FALSE, then you know the user pressed control- >C instead. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Jeff Cauhape cauhape@TWG.COM 415/962-7147 Room 224 (SneakerNet) I do that too. I was refering to when the user presses escape on one screen. A lot of fields hold restricted values which I tried to just check in the .per file. Both screens are packed, so there are lot of fields. It would be much redundant to do all those checking again in after input(implying updates be done on at least two places). What I do now, if I detect an ESC in one screen, is display the other screen and ask the user to press escape. Fields are checked on the screen by sperform and in my program I do lookups and go my merry way. What I was trying was display the second screen (if I detect esc), and stuff the keyboard/buffer with ESC so that I don't have to ask the user to do it Again. Mukesh (mukesh@elsouth.wsnc.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nulls are Pain... Why don't they apply fuzzy logic and give it a value??? -------------------------------------------------------------------------