popup update question (was: Re: Nested Gosubs)

[GCC Consulting]

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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Fairlight
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:41 AM
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> Subject: popup update question (was: Re: Nested Gosubs)
> 
> Simon--er, no...it was John Esak--said:
> > command on that CALL table... much better to use POPUP 
> UPDATE or other 
> > mechanisms for this very reason.
> 
> Okay, time for Fairlight's Stupid Question of the Day[tm]:
> 
> When I was coding in fP+ 4.1, to the best of my recollection 
> (and I think I searched -hard- and asked people at the time), 
> you couldn't do @when processing on the fields inside of a 
> POPUP UPDATE.
> 
> 1) Is this still the case?  (Hell, am I even remembering correctly?)
> 
> and...
> 
> 2) If so, mightn't this be an exciting new feature for 6.0?

Mark,

If you do a popup update to the current file, @w processing works.  It still
doesn't work to a lookup file.

The best way to handle this is to create a duplicate screen using dummy fields
and us @w processing on the dummy fields and the post the information to lookup
file.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting