Current menu script

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Jeff Harrison <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 
> > Okay.  I didn't realize that "modify all of the
> > shell scripts to pass
> > the information to filePro" was an option.  :-)
> > 
> 
> Perhaps I was not clear.  I was modifying all of the
> shell scripts anyway - by adding the following line
> as
> the first thing in each script:
> 
> /appl/fp/dclerk lib -s1 -z logger -rw $0  
> 
> This is all fixed text that needs to be pre-pended
> to
> each shell script.  Where the problem comes in now
> is
> not in passing the menu script name, but passing the
> "menu path" information.  
> 
> By this I mean that If the user presses 1 then A
> then
> 2 from the first presented menu (to go say 3 menus
> deep), I would like to pass the string "1A2" into my
> logger process.  I can't think of a way to that
> without going into each script and adding a -r
> "pathstring" though.  If you can tell me a paletable
> way to do that I would be impressed :-)
> 
> I suppose I could load all of the menu items into a
> filepro file, and then store the path information
> with
> it - not paletable!  - I have written processes in
> the
> past to import menus into filepro files, and I could
> find them somewhere, but this is way to involved for
> this application.
> 
> I guess I could figure out the path information
> based
> on the log file itself if I also logged each user
> menu
> selection that is itself another menu.  If I also
> add
> the PID to the log file, then I can figure out the
> various menu paths by printing a report that sorts
> by
> user ID/PID/Date/Time.   Hmm...  I like!
> 
> Thanks Ken!  :-)
> 

Well, I just had another idea that I think I like even
better.  I can store the menu path information in the
menus themselves!  Since in this case there is only
one way to get to any given menu this is possible.  I
can hard code the appropriate text right into the
heading text of the menu - I could just use a special
character to signify that the following string is menu
path information, then my library routine can read the
string right from the menu itself.  

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHImport and JHExport. The fastest and
easiest ways to create code for filePro Imports and
Exports. 



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