Re: Another one for the panel...

Posted in 1992

Chris Silvester — Wed, 2 Dec 1992 18:34:39 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <memo.781154@cix.compulink.co.uk>, shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming) writes: > > > This one is for those of you who use windows (I4GL windows, not MS > windows). > > Wouldn't it be nice to extend the OPTIONS keyword to accept the likes > of: > > MENU LINE OFF > PROMPT LINE OFF > etc > > so that if you wanted to display a simple form you could do so in > such a way that the displayed form looked like: > > > +---------------------------------+ > | SOME INPUT THING [ ] | > +---------------------------------+ > > rather than: > > +---------------------------------+ > | | > | | > | SOME INPUT THING [ ] | > | | > +---------------------------------+ > > Errors appear on the last screen line so that should be a problem. A > run-time error should result if a COMMENT, PROMPT or MESSAGE line is > encountered whilst such a window was the current window. You could get closer by defining FORM LINE FIRST, MENU LINE LAST, PROMPT LINE LAST, COMMENT LINE LAST, etc. This would give you +---------------------------------+ | SOME INPUT THING [ ] | | | +---------------------------------+ Just a thought. Chris S.