Re: dynamic menus in 4GL

Huw Richards wrote: > > Hello, > > Informix 4GL version 6.02.UCL > SCO Openserver 5.0.2 > > I've been using dynamic menus for a new version of our software containing > multi-lingual menu options dependent on the user language. So the menu > options are being composed at run time. > > In most cases the menu choices are unique, so therefore the user can press > key of the first letter of the option instead of using the cursor keys to > select. > > However in some cases there are menu options which begin with the same key. > > I have tried using COMMAND KEY(l_var) where l_var is assigned at run time -- > this produces compile errors. There is no way around this that I know of. There are two work arounds. 1) Do COMMAND KEY(1)... COMMAND KEY(2).... etc and 2) You are aware that if multiple menu choices start with the same letter then typing the lead character repeatedly cycles through the matching choices. Just document this behavior. It's not a bug it's a feature! Art S. Kagel