popup update question

[Bill Akers]

Fairlight wrote:
> 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.

This has never been the case, all the way back to 4.1, that I am aware 
of(unless very recently) even though I seem to recall a time when some 
very vocal members of this list wanted to maintain that it was. I even 
sent out copies of some of my code to several who requested it. You 
can use both dummy or real fields and they act just like on a regular 
screen. by the way none pof the aforemantioned vocal members of the 
list ever acknowledged they were wrong on the list or to me 
personally. The simply skulked away into the night.


> 
> 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->