The @when user key function/feature....

[Brian K. White]

On 10/27/2010 2:15 PM, John Esak wrote:
>
> @wukNNN - F3, F4, F8, F9
>
> So how many people use this great function?
>
> I think it is often overlooked, and I know I use it a lot in all my stuff.
>
> My feeling is it allows a whole extra level of processing, i.e., a whole
> different place to "be' when you're inside a filePro program.  It has some
> trickyness to it when you first use it, but it is so worthwhile.  Does
> anyone have any questions about it or any good suggestions regarding it?
>
>
> 4.1      @WUKnnn     When user keys  F3 ,  F4 ,  F8  or  F9  is pressed
>                       in field "nnn". When the key is pressed, the special
>                       key label can be tested by using system maintained
>                       field @sk. The following key labels apply.
>
>                                F3         INSL
>                                F4         DELL
>                                F8         DPRT
>                                F9         GRAF
>
>
>
> This is the HELP for the feature... I don't think many would use the feature
> if this is all they ever saw about it.  Any comments?
>
>
> John
>
>
> P.s. - we have had a nice long spread of messages this past month or so
> about filePro-related stuff... And then today, finally, there was nothing
> but 9 messages I had to delete without-reading because none of which were
> about filePro, but rather about some pretty unrelated open source thing or
> whatever.  Yes, usually, topics start out loosley related to FP, but soon,
> we end up seeing the same old names and the same old topics that have
> nothing whatever to do with what we want to be talking about here.  I'm one
> who sees no problem with OT: subjects, but that little mechanism is fast
> forgotten and we end up with the filePro people going away for long periods
> of time and the forum not being used for what we all want it used for... And
> eventually it not being used at all for long periods.  So, when this
> happens, I'm going to take it upon myself to throw out some stuff that might
> spark filePro talk.

Hahaha go ahead and miss the boat.

How about, how hard would it be, and how useful, to insert the ability 
to specify ownership & permissions of files created by open(), print, & 
export? instead of having to go through the garbage we currently have to 
do whenever using these functions to write temp files? And answer the 
same questions about it over and over again to every user who ever tries 
to finally start doing something new with making fp talk to other stuff? 
If we only had the permission to do so...

Yeah that open source thingie stuff, it's such a silly inconsequential 
boondoggle, never going to amount to anything. Not a viable model.

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bkw