Some Sort of Control From The Browse Screen

John Esak john at valar.com
Thu Oct 14 16:00:47 PDT 2010 

Excellent idea, the @brw[key]. I like that.
I don't know about it being very implementable, by the ay congratulations on
coining a new word I'm sure to use a lot... :-)  because, it really would
entail a huge new area of code that currently doesn't exist at all. Meaning,
you are at a browde with whatever records are showing on it.  You arrived
there by supplying some criteria at the clerk menu and its choices... Now,
you "update" a record with this new ability... That may entail changing just
one record, or perhaps, something you did cascaded down through hundreds of
records changing lots of things... Now you have to reposition the highlight
based not only on the criteria you originally had, but on whatever just
changed.  Maybe the record yo changed won't even be on the browse now.
Well, no, that's not a good example, you could have done that with the
curretntly available "u" function.  What I'm getting at is, you are not
"going" to a record and running on it's input table when you are at the IUA
browse screen. You are standing where there is NO processing (of yours) at
all. Of course, this is what we want... And as I think about it, more and
more does seem possible if the new type of processing was added.  But, would
it be on the INPUT table only?  Why not something also on the AUTOMATIC
table so that records could automatically include or exclude themselves from
showing on the browse.  Boy, it gets complicated.  Ron Kratz would be the
one to illuminate how much of this is possible and/or easy.  I believe his
original enhancements for the browse itself included multiple lines and
updateable fields as a starter. Of course, that really entails a huge amount
of "change" right there. Just updateing a field could cause zillions of
other changes to occur and to my small mind... The ramifications are
unending.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Walker [mailto:ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:13 PM
> To: john at valar.com
> Cc: 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: RE: Some Sort of Control From The Browse Screen
> 
> John,
> 
> Yup....I am looking for the quickest, easiest, laziest, way 
> of getting it
> done.
> 
> @browse would rock!
> 
> Maybe @brwT  for when you pressed the "T" key on the browse 
> screen....do you
> even call it a screen?  Probably best to call it a browse "format".
> 
> That processing could be ended when you position to a screen 
> or when you
> return control to the browse format with a "browse" command.  
> Would also
> allow you to change the browse format from within processing.
> 
> Be nice to have it redraw the browse screen when you return to get any
> updated data.
> 
> I don't know why this never peculated up to the top of the to 
> do list.  It
> seems perfectly implementable.  I know it would be a lot of 
> work to allow
> updating the data fields from the browse but some limited 
> functionality
> would seem doable.  Of course, I'm not the one having to do it!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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stial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at li
sts.celestial.
> com] On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:36 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: Some Sort of Control From The Browse Screen
> 
> Boy Scott,
> You've just delineated the wishlist item of all time.
> 
> The U from browse is useful, but without "knowing" you are coming from
> browse you're right it doesn't get you where you want.
> 
> It's too bad their isn't an @browse processing of some kind.
> 
> You can tell you're coming from the Add Records (#3 choice) 
> by putting some
> processing @update... But nothing from browde.  The @keyU 
> trigger doesn't
> know whether you're on a record or on the browse when it's executed.
> 
> But, honestly, the type of programming you're asking for is 
> not that hard
> done in p4rocessin... As I'm sure you know. Why does it have 
> to be from IUA?
> Can't you put up the browse and then tick off the "Y" and 
> show or not show
> them on the processing browse.  It's the kind of thing that's 
> done all the
> time.  Just show the Y at the end of the line or not. You 
> would just need to
> use the "pkeep" option and then showing the Y or not would be 
> an automatic
> thing assuming the field is listed on the data line of the browde.
> 
> I know I'm not helping you... But that kind of browse from 
> within processin
> is so easy... Meaning there is viertually  nothing to 
> program, just put up
> the browse with the field you're ticking off with the Y on 
> it. That's' all.
> Plus you get a more elaborate sort/select of records from 
> within processing.
> 
> You're not telling me you're just lazy... Are you?  :-)
> 
> John
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> > m] On Behalf Of Scott Walker
> > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:12 PM
> > To: 'filePro Mailing List'
> > Subject: Some Sort of Control From The Browse Screen
> > 
> > Is there no way, no how, to get any programmable control of 
> > what happens
> > when the user is on a browse (the full file type of 
> > browse..not the lookup
> > browse).
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I want to be highlighting a record and press a key (lets say 
> > "T") and have
> > it check off the highlighted record (as in checking off the 
> > items in your
> > check book that have cleared).  So programmatically when you 
> > pressed "T" on
> > the browse screen, the highlighted record would have the 
> value of it's
> > "Cleared" field set to "Y" and the browse would be refreshed so the
> > "Cleared" field would now show "Y".
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure this can't be done but if anyone has a wild & 
> > crazy way
> > they've made it happen, I'd love to know.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I could even live with, when on the browse screen, press "U" 
> > and go into
> > update on the screen.  Maybe I could take over at that point, 
> > change the
> > Cleared field to "Y" and then record the screen and go back 
> > to the browse
> > screen.   But how would I tell that I had been on the browse 
> > and pressed
> > "U"?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Scott Walker
> > 
> > RAM Systems Corp
> > 
> > (704) 896-6549
> > 
> > ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com
> > 
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> > 
> > www.RAMSystemsCorp.com
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