Re: Q: Help on SHOWHELP
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mr. Science wrote: > Help! > > I'm moving an app from SunOS 4.1.3 and Informix family 5 (which actually > includes 4GL 4.10) to Solaris 2.6 and the version 7.20's. The 4GL source > below works fine on the former system, but the comments indicate things that > work or don't work in the latter system. > > Did something change with the SHOWHELP function between 4.10 and 7.20? Not that I know of. I removed the database statement from your code (because the program doesn't access the database), and ran it on my Sparc 20 under Solaris 2.6 with I4GL 7.20.UD1 and I4GL-RDS 7.20.UD1, and both programs worked as expected. I wasn't able to test the F1 key because I'm not using a suitably rigged termcap entry, but all the other showhelp commands worked OK. I used the helpfile.msg file: .1 This is help message number 1 .3 This is the third help message. I compiled this using: mkmessage helpfile.msg helpfile.ex The file was in my current directory when I ran the tests. I cannot reproduce your problem, so you need to verify that the sample program you sent really doesn't work. If it doesn't, then report the problem to Informix Tech Support, but there is either a breakage because you're using 7.20.UDx where x > 1 and SHOWHELP is broken in that version, or there's something funny about your setup. I'm pretty much certain that the presence or absence of the database has nothing whatsoever to do with the issue. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn -- less extensively indented version of Mr Science's code. MAIN OPTIONS HELP FILE "helpfile.ex" CALL SHOWHELP (1) # This works fine! CALL SHOWHELP (3) # This is OK, too! MENU "main menu" COMMAND "Exit" EXIT MENU COMMAND "Help" DISPLAY "->->Help option chosen!!!<-<-" # This displays CALL SHOWHELP (3) # This doesn't COMMAND KEY (F1) DISPLAY "->->Hey, he pressed F1!!!<-<-" # This displays CALL SHOWHELP (1) # This doesn't END MENU CALL SHOWHELP (1) # Nor does this END MAIN