Re: DBESCWT

June Tong wrote: > > Peter Lancashire wrote: > > > A quick look in termcap shows that Wyse 50 sends Ctrl+A followed by > > another character for its function keys. I had terminals that did this > > (Fortune). This will foul up your field editing as Ctrl+A toggles > > insertion. > > > > As you cannot override Ctrl+A but you can override the ACCEPT key (ESC), > > I suspect you will have fewer problems redefining ACCEPT to something > > more than ESC, or even use a separate control key, as June suggests. > > Or just replace all the other Function keys with something else. The ESC as ACCEPT > is sort of problematic, in that the delay between the ESC and other parts of the > sequence causes 4GL to interpret the ESC by itself as an ACCEPT, and do weird stuff > with the rest of the sequence when it arrives, but if you stopped the users from > pressing the Function keys which are causing this problem, e.g. by replacing all > those Function keys with Control-key equivalents, they would no longer have this > problem. > > June > -- > june_t@hotmail.com > Grounded in Palo Alto, living on Oreo's Yes, that would work from a technical standpoint. From a user interface standpoint, I like to be able to issue my users with a little strip of paper to go across the top of the keyboard where the function keys are. That way they know what each (single) key press will do. Would you prefer a single keypress to a double one? Ask some users... Now if only I could find a way to label the fronts of all my keys without the little bits of paper falling into the keyboard... :-) -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 -- If all else fails, read the instructions and the release notes. Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/