Browse Lookup Message (Scott Walker)

[Jose Lerebours]

IMNSHO,

The use of the browse lookup is nothing but a lazy developer solution.

Use arrays and routines to populate and solve the browse lookup issues - 
You may write 60 to 100 lines of code once and BANG!, you have the code 
which can be used genetically and universally with no or little change.

Granted, 1 to 5 lines of codes are much easier and faster to write than 
60 to 100 but the added benefits makes it all worth your while.

I have been using this as far back as I can remember and I rarely ever 
use browse lookup where data control, management, editing, sorting, 
filtering, posting ... is needed.  Yeah, "drop" came about after I had 
written array based browse mechanism and yet, I never gave it up.

So, the use of arrays + waitkey is the best solution you can entertain 
to take absolute control of your 'browse' lookups ... Heck, I even had a 
few instances where I allowed left/right scroll which you cannot do in 
filePro lookup (or at least last I checked).

Some of the benefits:
(a) Depth control - a single line can be as many rows as you want
(b) Scroll up/down, left/right ...
(c) Capture function keys or any key "waitkey" can read
(d) Added control on screen content as user scrolls from row to row
(e) Ability to fetch info prior to placing bar over row
(f) In place edit by combining with "input" and "input popup" commands
(g) Gives user ability to jump a number of pages at once (paging)
(h) Since all data is in an array, export to excel or pdf is half way 
done ...
(i) Since you're using waitkey or inkey, you can run additional process 
in between key strokes
(j) ... need I say more?

Kind of sticking my neck out here - Now let that guy that usually talks 
smack and knows nothing about programming get involved!





On 03/17/2016 10:43 AM, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
> On 3/17/2016 9:25 AM, Jason Garner via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Good Morning Scott,
>>
>> I am new to FP programming but in Linux FP you can use a "-S" 
>> argument that
>> will get rid of that message and the user will just stare at a blank 
>> lookup.
>>
>> I am not sure if this is the same for Windows FP.
> [...]
>
> With very few exceptions, such as SYSTEM (which, by its very nature, 
> is system-dependent), and USER (pre-5.7), filePro processing is 
> virtually identical between *nix and Windows.
>
> The same "-s" flag is available on all filePro platforms.
>