Modifying real fields in automatic (was Re: Some Sort of Control From The Browse Screen)

[flowersoft at compuserve.com]

The user cannot get to screen 9 because @entsel does a pushkey "b" if @sn="9",  No @key9 needed. You are never left looking at a blank screen 9.  Besides, if that would ever be a problem, we could call the screen "nine" instead of 9.


> If your plan is to take the user into update mode, immediately come out of 
> update mode, and take you back to browse, then why do you insist on 
> modifying the real field in automatic processing, rather than input 
> processing where it belongs?

I guess you can put it at the top of the input table, but that could interfere with normal input processing. 
For example, the line
3  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
      ◄ If: @sk="brky" and @sn="1"
      Then: switchto 9; pushkey "b"; end

Might cause a problem when in input processing if the user breaks out of the record.

I thought it might be a lot simpler to have it in its own "myauto" processing table.