Re: Question regarding positioning within "input array"

Ken Vaughn wrote: > > Jonathan, > > First, sorry in advance that I took so long replying to you and also that I got so > long winded in this reply. For some reason, if I take too long to type in a reply, > my ISP gets all confused and doesn't send the message. As to your question, there > are basically two actions that the user is > going to want to perform when within the input array: they are either going to > want to accept what they have done or they are going to want to cancel it. (There > may be ancillary actions that occur, depending on the application, but in general > that should be the case.) If you place the input array statement within a while > loop, you can basically control whatever you want to by exiting and re-entering > the input array statement. <colossal snip> Something I'd like to be able to do but just won't contemplate with 4GL is a tree view, as is now popular in all sorts of interfaces. Users seem to understand them and they are ideal for many master-detail data structures we get in RDBMSs. Informix must reckon they are some use or ROM would not be the way it is. Try getting INPUT ARRAY to do that without positioning and other hokey-pokey... -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 --- If all else fails, read the instructions. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/