Re: on key question

Posted in 1994

Dennis Pimple — 18 May 94 17:30:13 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

tchow@cs.umb.edu (T.Chow) writes: >I am having a kind-of-strange problem with the on key statement inside >an input array. Consider the following function: > INPUT ARRAY arr_test WITHOUT DEFAULTS FROM sc_test.* > ON KEY (F2, control-f) > DISPLAY "TEST" >TEST will be displayed when I press ctrl-f but nothing will happen when >I press F2. But when I change the input array to input and both ctrl-f >and F2 work. I have another 4GL program that uses input array but >everything works fine. I have been trying to make all kind of stupid >changes to the code but no luck. Does anyone have similar problem? >I am using Online 5.01.uc1, 4GL 4.10.ue2 and SunOS 4.1.3. Did you change the DELETE KEY from it's default of F2? I bet you did on the other INPUT ARRAY you have no problems with, but not this one, so that the F2 performance of DELETE is superceding your ON KEY statement. try: OPTIONS DELETE KEY CONTROL-Q (which will disable your DELETE KEY, since CONTROL-Q is trapped by the OS as xon) INPUT ARRAY ... ============================================================ Dennis J. Pimple Informix Software Inc Senior Consultant Denver Colorado USA dennisp@informix.com Voice:303-850-0210 Fax:303-779-4025