Old dog - new tricks

[George Simon]

This has been a "feature for a long, long time.
The problem is that if the user presses the space bar to go to the next 
option, they will land in your "hidden" option and hitting <Enter> will 
execute it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howie" <howiewz at beonthenet.com>
To: "filePro List" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 2:22 PM
Subject: Old dog - new tricks


>
> FYI:
>
> It's not too often that I learn of a feature that I didn't know about in
> filepro but yesterday I did.
>
> I think Joe Hirschman at Aljex discovered this one, I have no idea if it 
> is
> documented.
>
> We needed to test some new code, running as a user, but when the user logs
> in he is taken to a standard menu and cannot escape to the shell.
>
> We didn't want to change the menu without testing the new code.
>
> It seems that if you create or modify a filepro menu (DOS or UNIX) and add
> an entry that has  a  choice, but leave the description blank and have an
> action - the resulting menu does not show the choice but does allow you to
> stop on what appears to be a blank entry and press enter to take the 
> hidden
> choice. You can also type in the choice to get to that menu entry
>
> I wouldn't leave it that way for long but it was enough for us to test the
> new code before making it available to the user.
>
> Bug or feature?  I don't know but it is cute
>
> Howie
>
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