screens other than 0-9

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:19:37PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
> At about Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:10:42PM -0400,
> Jay Ashworth blabbed on about:
> > Our approach has always been to utilize the numbered screens to
> > compensate, somewhat, for the fact that filepro won't let us build
> > scrollable screens taller (and occasionally wider) than the 80x25
> > viewport.
> 
> Freely hoppable?  I always approached it from the standpoint of chaining
> screens in processing, similar to how it would flow in CICS.

Well, on *creation* yes, we do that:

:if @CD eq "":gosub nextscreen:

but for inquire/edit, you can just jump manually.

> I suppose both approaches have their uses.  If your users are -trained-,
> free-roaming is flexible and cool.  If they have to be guided, chaining's
> probably wiser.

Yeah, like I say: random access only for I/U, not A.

Cheers,
-- jra
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