Re: Informix queries: etc

Path: emory!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!unisoft!fai!sequent!lugnut From: lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton) Newsgroups: comp.databases Keywords: Informix, raw, support Message-ID: <59135@sequent.UUCP> Date: 2 May 91 21:20:49 GMT References: <461@octelb.octel.UUCP> <1991Apr26.223734.8639@disk.uucp> Reply-To: lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc In article <1991Apr26.223734.8639@disk.uucp> proberts@disk.uucp (Phil Roberts) writes: Some stuff deleted >I have been using Informix products since '86, and have never received >anything less than excellent support and service from them. Informix, unlike >many other large companies I have dealt with, gets all A's on my report card. Since you have been using it awhile and since Infomix may be attuned to this thread.... I am wondering about a few functions I have been forced to use in order to have desired operation in my programs that are un-supported undoccumented yet prove essential in any more than crude screens.. I refer to fgl_drawbox() and eflastkey.. Have these animals been around long? Like when Informix the next generation airs, will I be "SOL"[1]? eflastkey is a godsend given their available input control stmts. I got spoiled using Oracle forms and being able to act acordingly based on the keys used. At least being able to "read" what key was pressed allows a developer to handle conditional actions properly and can define mech- anisims like "POST-CHANGE", proper form traversals when skipping over non-modifyable fields using the BEFORE FIELD stmt.. I'm referring to basic keys here not command keys... RETURN up, dn, left and right arrow you know, the ones users use to navigate the forms :-) Anyway, I wondered if yall been using these gems too and if they've been around long? I'd kind of like to get a case together to drive these things to doccumented supported reality, or at least poke them into making mechanisims of these types for use in their future releases. They make life a whole lot easier.. Oh yeah in case someone out there is wondering, I was informed of these (as were all in class) at the 4gl training class I took in Menlo Park last year. [1] "SOL"=Sh*t Outta Luck Don "just annother bozo with a loaded keyboard" Bolton ----------__________________________________________________---------- DISCLAIMER DATCLAIMER ----------__________________________________________________---------- I do not speak for my employer, nor roll over either. They say I play dead pretty good though :-)