Re: CONSTRUCT re-write

Posted in 1991

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Sun, 3 Nov 91 21:55:20 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!wupost!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!pyramid!infmx!aland From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix,connect.audit Keywords: CONSTRUCT Message-ID: <1991Nov2.235213.7094@informix.com> Date: 2 Nov 91 23:52:13 GMT References: <1991Oct24.231034.2589@actrix.gen.nz> <1991Oct31.093759.5650@ibmpcug.co.uk> Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News) Organization: International Brotherhood of Geeks, Local 619 In article <1991Oct31.093759.5650@ibmpcug.co.uk> tab@ibmpcug.co.uk (Andrew Beattie) writes: >Has anyone re-written CONSTRUCT as an INFORMIX 4gl function? > >I want to be able to do things in the middle of the user entering >the QBE info. (such as ON KEY, or "If he is looking for a value >like `this', call `that' function and plug in the value it returns") >and I can't do anything, 'cos >CONSTRUCT is just one single command, with no way in. Not anymore. With I-4GL 4.10, CONSTRUCT supports all appropriate BEFORE/AFTER/ON KEY controls that INPUT, INPUT ARRAY, et al do. Check it out. See the 4GL 4.10 Reference Manual Supplement for details. >Andrew -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland "Why didn't the Irish get a salad dressing?" - Joe Qur