show only browse

[John Esak]

I'm sorry Bruce your "statements" were ignored because they are dead wrong.
You are a little arrogant in passing them on as the way things are when
filepro does not work that way.   I think everyone is trying and has been
trying to tell you that @key processing absolutely does NOT bring down a
browse... Show=only.  Perhaps, Richard's confusion was aided and abetted by
all the misinformation that *you* were injecting into the thread, just as
you have done here in this message.  

Will you please show me in the source code, or have Ken print out the
precise command that clears a show=only browse when an @key is pressed....
At any point in there... Go ahead... I'm waiting.  Oops, but wait a minute,
you are so completely wrong about this, that I'll be waiting quite a while.
Maybe I won't hold my breath.  Um, id you ever stop to think that using @key
to put up a show=only browse would be immensely moronic if it were
*immediately* cleared by the @key itself?  Guess not.

I wouldn't mind you spreading misinformation... We all do it, you a little
more than most, and more forcefully... But try and have some humility man.
It's good for the soul.

John 

P.S. - Sorry for the direct rudeness, I just copy on to what has been
messaged to me as you know.  Treat me nicely, I treat you nicely in return.
Treat me like dirt, and I treat you like dirt in return.  I know it's hard
for some to understand this mode... But after 30+ years of this kind of
shit... I  am just too tired to play games over stupidity.  To think that a
browse is automatically brought down because it is done in an @key displays
a total lack of understanding, but more importantly tells very clearly that
you didn't even take the 11 seconds it would have taken you to just *try* it
yourself.  So, arrogance and stupidity, good combination.  Good luck.

Now, this is where everyone says, Oh John, you're so mean. Of course, they
won't add up the time wasted by the idiotic comments in the thread.  No,
instead they will just leave the list like Alan did. (By the way, he called
me and told me *why* he was leaving... I'm not "assuming" anything here.)

For anyone sucked into this very bad and misinformed ending to this thread,
I apologize.  However, check out the behavior Bruce exhibits when he
realizes he was wrong.  Do you think the word "apologize" will come out?
Let's see.  This should be educational.




> -----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 Bruce Easton
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 1:38 PM
> To: Filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: show only browse
> 
> Two inline posts below - Bruce, STN, Inc. 
> 
> Quoting John Esak <john at valar.com>:
> > 
> > Richard,
> > 
> > I'm one of those who got caught up in your first description and
> > surmised
> > that you wanted to do something a little different than the final
> > explanation.  My apologies.  But, honestly, if this is your *final*
> > code, I
> > don't understand why you even need a SWITCHTO since putting up a
> > show=only
> > browse does NOT change the current screen. But even more 
> important, you
> > *still* don't have the single thing Ken, and I and everyone 
> was asking
> 
> because IT IS NOT NEEDED.  The mis-information continues.
> 
> > for... A specific command that takes the browse down. Why not put a
> > ;clearb
> > immediately after the   show "@"?  As far as I know, and Ken will
> > confirm..
> > . SWITCHTO does NOT clear a browse.  So, nothing is 
> learned, nothing is
> > gained.  It works for the nebulous reasons Mark mentioned. 
> (Of course,
> > I
> > don't know where this code is, @ekey, @entsel, AUTO... It's 
> all in the
> > huge
> > thread somewhere, but if this is finality... It doesn't clear up
> > anything.)
> > Don't worry, I know the pressures of just handling one's 
> everyday work
> > doesn't allow time for these niggling threads, that we 
> sometimes put up
> > just
> > to help others in the first place.  But, just for me, would 
> you please
> > assert that you *do* know there should be a CLEARB somewhere.  
> 
> NOT TRUE. Not needed for that type of browse where @key 
> processing will end.  NO 
> wonder Richard was confused with questions being asked of 
> him.  Maybe people do 
> not understand the difference between @key and other triggers 
> with respect to 
> how they affect other commands. I guess again, my other post 
> about what is 
> clearing the browse in this case, where I stated it was the 
> @key processing 
> ending, was ignored.  
> 
> > I mean,
> > just
> > because SWITCHTO clears the screen and puts up a new screen 
> without any
> > of
> > the old browse shown again... Does not mean it was brought down
> > correctly.
> > That is not a functional part of SWITCHTO, it's just an accidental
> > effect.
> > Ken was asking were you doing any of these things that 
> might clear the
> > browse sort of accidentally, I do not think he was suggesting it as
> > good
> > programming.  -John
> > 
> > > 
> > > Browse
> > > show "@"
> > > switchtoo sn  (browse closes)
> > > END
> > > 
> > > Richard
> > 
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