Re: 4GL Menu Question

First please turn off HTML posting. If you are using Netscape you do that as follows: Edit/Preferences/Mail&News/Composition uncheck the "Use HTML Composition window" If you are using some other program please try to turn off the MIME/HTML part in some other way. As to you question we do this all the time by simply letting the only code for each item be a call to some function. Then you can use that call wherever you want. The only thing that *might* have been a problem with this is that the menu option isn't highlighted. However we *never* leave the menu on screen while some other code is beeing executed anyway. We replace it with some info on what is beeing executed. Leaving the menu we have found to confuse the user. John Cokos <jcokos@ix.netcom.com> wrote: :Is there a way to AUTOMATICALLY Activate a menu item in 4gl? :I would like to take NEXT OPTION one step further, by allowing the :user to, based on the result of some other input, skip to another menu :item :and have the code for that item execute automatically...... : ie : MENU "Test" : COMMAND "Item1" : CALL SomeFunction() RETURNING Flag : IF Flag = "Y" THEN : NEXT OPTION "Item 2" ## Highlight the item so :the user knows what he's doing : --> Do Code For Item 2 ## Execute the proper :code : END IF : COMMAND "Item 2" : ....... : END MENU Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org