Thanks Bill!
Hope I have time today to try this out! We sometimes grouse on this list
about this or that, but the CHOOSE command is better than anything the
Microsofties have to offer. You can display info with all sorts of other
data from the row that you would have to use a form for in MS-world, but in
RB-Land you can really zip through the choices using the keyboard, page
up/down and soundex capabilties.
Easy inserts and updates with row locking sure beats DAO programming.
And the command line.
And the easy reloads.
You get the idea.
Ike
At 02:04 PM 7/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Ike,
>
>You'll have to have a program or eep write a temporary playback file,
>maybe with a few up-arrows to start, for that timing issue I was
>discussing, and then the spelling of the first letters of the choice you
>want.
>
>If you wanted to preselect "Ike", and it was stored in the variable
>vNickName, then that would be something like:
>
>SET VAR vPlayString = +
> (CHAR(0) + CHAR(72) + CHAR(0) + CHAR(72) + +
> .vNickName + CHAR(0) + CHAR(95))
>SET VAR vPlayFile = (filename(0))
>OUTPUT &vPlayFile
>WRITE .VPlayString
>OUTPUT SCREEN
>SET WALKMENU ON
>CHOOSE vPick FROM #VALUES FOR whatever
>SET WALKMENU OFF
>DELETE &vPlayFile
>
>(Disclaimer: this hasn't been tested, only typed fast off the top of my
>head, but with DMB's "Advanced Forms and Reports" open to the page
>of keyboard scan codes.)
>
>Bill
>
>Bill
>
>On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:38:36 -0500, Paul Eichhorn wrote:
>
> >Wow, Bill.
> >
> >I had no idea you could "play" something into a Choose command. I
>would
> >love to be able to "play" back even the first letter of the last value
> >selected to get the user back to roughly the same place on a long
> >SQL/CHOOSE list. That way, they could pull up the list, pop into a
>form,
> >then come back to where they were without doing cyclical iterations
>of
> >several "page downs". Any details?
