Re: Informix 2.1 challanges

Terry Boyland <windata@dircon.co.uk> wrote: :Chaps :A major career move has given me the opportunity to work with : the new Informix 2.10.03F :and it's accompanying Version 1 RDS (!$%' Not !! ). Congratulations. : As you are aware this has some major :advantages like not being able to do the following: : I wish to use F10 as accept ( No probs here ) : and F3 to leave an input : Problem is: Because F3 is not accept then it does not see the : data in the current field buffer before exiting. I : am aware of get_fldbuf but it is not available and the : result is that whichever field is the current field : when I hit F3 gets returned to it's original value before : input (usually NULL ). : Any work arounds here ?! I don't know of any, except challenging you to why on earth you "need" this? F10 as accept is fine (the default ESC is not a very good idea any longer as this is the cancel key in so many other products). But do you realy need another key for the same purpose? If you do I seem to remember some old stuff from someone who had hacked the runtime that could do the equivalent of the get_fldbuf. Even if that was for some later version it might also work on your 2.10 :Additionally I keep getting 4518 errors from the crappy code which has been written. The :manuals from Informix are as usual a guideing light on the subject. What really :causes this ? It cannot be the return statements because all that it being returned are :status codes. Perhaps the number of CALL statements has a limit, or problems with this :product and the memory ? This I think is the usual problem with case, print using and so on that is described in the FAQ at www.iiug.org. :Any help appreciated :Terry :PS Anybody got a decent job going >!?''$""!! Sure. Within a few months we will have one. 4GL, MS Windows GUI, OLAP, Datawarehouse++ knowledge required, and you need to be able to speek at least one of the Scandinavian languages and be fluent in english. French, spanish or italian in addition would be nice, but no requirement. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no <- New E-mail adress NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company