Re: 4GL form won't fit on a screen

Path: emory!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sequent!muncher.sequent.com!lugnut From: lugnut@sequent.com Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1991Oct9.165910.25001@sequent.com> Date: 9 Oct 91 16:59:10 GMT References: <187026@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <5Nqi03w164w@bwhwob.han.de> Sender: news@sequent.com (News on Muncher) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. In article <5Nqi03w164w@bwhwob.han.de> bernd@bwhwob.han.de (Bernd Wiegmann) writes: >smfst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Seth M Fuller) writes: > >> In article <1991Oct5.171602.13440@StarConn.com> pmahler@StarConn.com (Paul Ma >> >alanb@vexcel.com (Alan Baxter) writes: >> > >> >I want to use a screen form in 4GL for manipulating reseau calibration >> >reports in a photogrammetric database. The problem is that a reasonably >> >formatted form won't fit on one screen. > >> One thing that you could do is have a pop-up window with the rest of the >> screen in it. You could access the window with a function key in your first >> screen. In this way you would get as close as possible to have everything >> on one screen. When the user wanted to edit/view the stuff that wouldn't >> fit on the first screen it is only a function key away. When the user exits >> the window his other screen is right there underneath (if you close the >> window of course). > >Is it possible to use nested INPUT statements ? I am using 4GL 1.10 with >MS-DOS. I think, I got an error message that told me that it is not >possible to use INPUT within another INPUT statement. > >Is this just a limitation of this version ? > I don't think so, my 4."x" does the same, but you *CAN* call annother function that contains an input stmt. If you are going from an array the program will return you to the point from which you left when done with the "nested" input, even if the nested one was itself an array also. Its pretty easy, but you do have to set variables SPECIFIC to each individual array as you go (set_count() stores the last array encountered, which can lead to some interesting screen antics otherwise) Its really pretty easy, after youv'e done it once it'll change your whole approach to user interfacing. Don "4gl and Gilligans Isle. Primative as can be" Bolton > Bernd >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bernd Wiegmann | e-mail: bernd@bwhwob.sub.org > Rolandstrasse 5, | Tel.: +49 5363 4353 > D-3180 Wolfsburg 1 | (voice only)