Clearing Browse screens?

[Tim Fischer]

I ran through it again this morning and I actually wasn't able to replicate
it either.  Maybe I was just tired?  I'll keep an eye on it though.  Before
posting, I had gone through it several times, so I'm pretty confused.

Tim Fischer

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> bounces+tim.fischer=trinitytransport.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of
> John Esak
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:57 PM
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> Subject: RE: Clearing Browse screens?
> 
> No, can't duplicate this in any way. I don't see how it could save out the
> format as the "default" format unless you actually go through the steps,
> like "S" and etc. To just hit "C" only clears the browse. If you then
> e(X)it, nothing much at all should happen. If it does, it is a bug
> peculiar
> to Solaris... (which I doubt, but I suppose is possible.)  There is a
> known
> hassle here, in that hitting "S" should in no way EVER bring up the SAVE
> function... it SHOULD bring up the Select format function as it does in
> dscreen, dmoedef, etc. But, this has been on the wish list for as long as
> I
> can remember. It is SO easy to do what you suggest is happening, but not
> by
> the keystrokes you describe. The problem I'm referring to happens when you
> press "C" to clear first... which it happily does for you... then by
> accident you press "S" and select another format and press ENTER...
> thinking
> you are (S)electing or (S)witching to that format.... BANG! you've just
> cleared that format!. This very same behavior happens in IUA's Extended
> Scan
> where you can easily and inadvertently clobber selection sets as well. The
> (S) function in the clerk program is just different than in the creation
> programs, and most filePro programmers think this should be conformed to
> the
> way it works in the creation programs. At _worst_ case, the IUA version of
> (S) standing for Save _should_ query "Are you SURE you want to overwrite
> the
> existing format...?"
> 
> John Esak
> 
> 
> 
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> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Tim
> > Fischer
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:25 PM
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: Clearing Browse screens?
> >
> >
> > Has anyone ever noticed that if, while editing a browse screen,
> > if you press
> > "C" to clear, then "X" to exit, it clears the entire browse and, best of
> > all, automatically saves the blank browse as the default?
> >
> > Maybe it's just in my version??  I'm running rclerk 5.0.13R4 on
> > Solaris.  Is
> > there a way to disable this?
> >
> > Tim Fischer
> >
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