Switching to update mode from @ENTSEL

[Richard D. Williams]

Barry,

Try using @MENU.  you will not be able to print, but you will not lock a 
record or add a record.

If you do need to print, create a separate table for that purpose using 
the person login  name or tty.
Assuming you are on *nix. You can then do a system command to get a 
record to use for printing.

Richard D. Williams

Barry Wiseman wrote:

>I'm trying to rewrite some old programs that do all their work standing on a locked 
>record (everything hangs off initial @KEY triggers).  I want to instead have as much 
>as possible happen within @ENTSEL processing so that the record is not locked.
>
>However, the tree of user interaction runs deep -- various master/detail browses and 
>their respective options, some of which require updating the master record and some 
>don't.
>
>Is there some graceful method (that hasn't occurred to me) of dropping into update 
>mode at any arbitrary point deep within @ENTSEL processing?  I know I can
>
>	::pushkey "U"; end:
>  	@UPDATE::' do whatever:
>
>but then I need flags and a jump table to know why I came there and it all gets 
>pretty messy.
>
>My other thought was to create an array of numfield(-) elements, and write all 
>updates there instead of to the current record.  On exit, a single @UPDATE routine 
>can loop thru the array, copying whatever's "dirty" into the appropriate fields.  But 
>this type of deferred posting seems rife with possibility for disaster that would 
>leave transactions corrupted and records out of balance.
>
>Any suggestions welcome.
>
>
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