data edit in a popup screen

[daN baueR]

Thank you. The program here is running on an old IBM AIX server with
filePro 4.5.  For some reason the help files don't display properly
here and I was using what I thought was an official manual at

https://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/fpmanhtm/startfrm.htm

Dan

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Barry Wiseman <barrywiseman at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/18/2011 2:04 PM, daN baueR wrote:
>>
>> Is it still just me or where does this manual mention adding an
>> "update" tag? Thanks again. This is from the online manual.
>
> On the POPUP UPDATE page:
>>
>> Syntax:
>>
>>        Then: POPUP(row,col) UPDATE f,s,m
>>
>>
>>
>> Displays screen "s" of lookup file "f" at "(row,col)" and puts the user
>> into update mode on this screen, positioning the cursor in field "m". If
>> (row,col) is omitted, the popup will be centered. If - (dash) is used for
>> the filename, then the screen must be in the current file and no lookup is
>> needed. If field is omitted, the cursor is placed in the first field on the
>> popup screen. A POPUP UPDATE will stay up until taken down by a CLEARP
>> command, even after the user has pressed the BREAK or SAVE key to leave the
>> POPUP UPDATE.
>>
>>
>>
>> Version Ref: 4.0
>>
>>
>>
>> IMPORTANT: The special benefit of POPUP UPDATE is that the contents of the
>> POPUP screen will be saved to the looked-up record (or to the current record
>> if - is used as the filename). Thus, if you look up a particular customer
>> record and POPUP UPDATE a screen from that file and the user makes changes
>> to the fields on this screen, these changes will automatically be written to
>> that record in the customer file when the user presses the SAVE key. If the
>> user presses the BREAK key, the looked-up record will not be changed.
>>
>> System-maintained field, @SN, will contain the name of the popup screen
>>
>>
>>
>> HINT: The following benefit applies to using POPUP UPDATE with the current
>> file (dash): When-processing (@WEF, @WLF, @WHP, and @WBL, etc.) on this
>> specific type of POPUP UPDATE can be performed by doing it from dummy fields
>> placed on this screen. This is an extremely valuable processing construct,
>> since processing is not normally allowed while on a POPUP UPDATE screen.
>>
>> Pop-up Screens and Passwords
>>
>> Even though a password is assigned to a screen when defining a screen,
>> since it’s decided at design time when to use a POPUP screen, the screen
>> password is ignored. Use INPUTPW or other means to control access to POPUP
>> screens when included in your lookups.
>>
>>
>>
>> CLEARP
>>
>>
>>
>> Syntax:
>>
>>
>>
>>        Then: CLEARP
>>
>>
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>>
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> This command removes a popup and cleans up the screen. It is a good idea
>> to always use this command after a popup.
>>
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