Re: I4gl Ring Menus help: Using Arrow Keys with Ring Menus.

manmetha@gauss.rutgers.edu (Rajesh Malhotra) writes: >Here is a question on setting up ring menus. > I have a screen which lists rows from a table, and I have the arrow >keys set up to scroll up and down the list. > Now I need to throw up a ring menu on top of this list. I do this >using the menu command og I4GL. So far so good. But once the menu comes up, >the arrow keys stop scrolling the list and start moving through the options >of the ring menu. All keyboard input is directed towards the menu. > I need to be able to scroll up and down the list while the menu is >displayed, and make a selection from the menu (say Add) using the first >character of the menu command ('A' in this case). > I need functionality similar to the Alter Table option of >ISQL. BTW is ISQL implemented using 4GL? If it can be done in ISQL, I should >be able to do it somehow. > Appreciate any and all responses on this matter. I am using >I4GL V4.00. >Thanx, >Raj. I implemented a solution to a similar problem by avoiding the MENU statement and using a series of ON KEY and DISPLAY statements during the INPUT ARRAY statement. You can use ON KEY(LEFT) and ON KEY(RIGHT) to trap left and right arrow keys, although this might have been added in 4GL V4.1. You could do it even without these ON KEY control blocks by the use of BEFORE FIELD statements in a set of char-1 fields, but this coding gets increasingly tricky. Post again if you need more detailed information, and I'll cobble together an example. ================ Dennis J. Pimple Informix CSE / Denver