RE: screen timeout in 4GL

Thanks for your response. The COBOL folk want to duplicate the functionality they currently have, which is: after a period of no activity, blank the screen, pop up a password window, accept the password, and return to where they were. I agree that terminal inactivity could be detected by an external process that could then kill it. We could probably even come up with a way to roughly duplicate the above scenario with 4GL and some C code. However, the sad fact is that we can do nothing to match the simplicity of trapping a screen timeout condition within the application code. Fred > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Segel > [SMTP:Mikey@nospam.kingofmydomain.mapson.segel.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 1:56 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: screen timeout in 4GL > > > > Pratt, Fred wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a way to timeout on screen input in 4GL? Our > COBOL > > programmers are amazed that we don't have this basic function in > 4GL. > > Does anyone out there use 4GL for POS-type apps where this > capability is > > necessary? Thanks. > > > > Uhmm, why would this be necessary in a POS type situation? > If you are thinking about security, you could have your UNIX box, > monitor > the > process and if it sleeps too long, kill it correctly and log the > terminal > out. > > If you are thinking about long transactions, then you have a poorly > written > application. > > -HTH > > Mikey >