DISPLAY in auto

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 12:47:48AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> > In some automatic processing, I'm doing this:
> > 
> > :2 ne "":lookup hdr=passhdr k=2 i=1 -nx:
> > :hdr:display 8; sleep "5"; exit "1":
> > 
> > Repeated for fields 3 through 8.
> > 
> > The lookup part works correctly, but after switching to screen 8 (also
> > correctly), it never exits.  I'm testing $? in the calling filepro menu
> > script to decide to skip some posting code, and it's never "1", even if
> > I eXit by hand.
> > 
> > Am I doing something wrong here?  The manuals seem to suggest that that
> > code fragment ought to do what I want.
> 
> "Works fine here."  (5.0.12 and 5.0.13)
> 
> Out of curiosity, if you remove the DISPLAY, does it work?  (If not,
> then the DISPLAY is irrelevent.)

If I use the display, it switches screens, if I *don't* use it, it
doesn't switch screens; quoting the "8" seems irrelevant.  It's the
*exit* that doesn't happen.

> ========== automatic
> 
> ::input popup yn(1,yesno) "EXIT from auto? ":
> :yn = "y":display (@sn) ; exit "2" ; errorbox "Oops!  It didn't exit from auto!":
> :yn = "y":errorbox "Big oops!  How did I get here in auto?":
> ::end:
> 
> ========== input
> 
> ::end:
> @entsel::show "Press \{X} to EXIT from input prc":
> ::end:
> @keyX::input popup yn "EXIT from input? ":
> :yn = "y":exit "3" ; errorbox "Oops!  It didn't exit from input!":
> ::end:

I'll try those... but is it in fact defined to work in auto?

Cheers,
-- jra
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