popup update question (was: Re: Nested Gosubs)

[Kenneth Brody]

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.
[...]

"POPUP UPDATE -" will allow all events to be triggered.  (And, since we're
talking about replacing a SCREEN command, the fact that it's not a lookup
file is irrelevent.)

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