Nested Calls

[Bob Rasmussen]

Yes, ambiguities can exist. If the user right-clicks and selects "Start 
URL", Anzio will do a best guess as to the extent of the URL, and invoke 
that.

If that doesn't work, the user can highlight the exact URL first.

On the host side, the software displaying the URL would do well to never 
immediately follow a URL with punctuation.

On Wed, 2 May 2018, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:

> How does it know how to handle the case of a URL which appears in a
> question, in the form of https://somehost.com/something/like/this?
>
> In the above case, you have a question mark, and that could be the start of
> a QUERY_STRING, or it could be simply a question mark at the end of the
> sentence.  The presence or absence will be detectable in $REQUEST_URI, so
> this can actually matter if someone's checking for it.
>
> (One -could- argue that the server-side code -should- check for a non-empty
> $QUERY_STRING if there's a question mark in $REQUEST_URI, but you have no
> way to guarantee the host-side behaviour.
>
> mark->
>
>
> On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 04:25:30PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> Did I hear my name? Anzio (and other terminal emulation clients)
>> have a feature where the user can click (or double-click, as
>> configured) on the screenm and Anzio will recognize what amounts to
>> a URL at that clicked location, extract that string from the screen
>> buffer, and "open" it in Windows, which causes Windows to invoke its
>> designated web browser and go to that URL. This is all done with no
>> interaction with the filePro programming or data files.
>>
>> A similar process works with the name of a local file, such as a
>> .DOC or .PDF or a .CSV.
>>
>> Any questions?
>>
>> On Wed, 2 May 2018, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/02/2018 12:34 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
>>>> It's just as well I can't post to fp list these days.
>>>> two days in a row I would have ridiculed Jose...
>>>> Yesterday it was "can filepro make a url clickable?"
>>>>
>>>> derr, 2 things:
>>>> * clickable is a function of the terminal client, not filepro.
>>>> Some terminals do recognize urls and make them clickable, the
>>>> same way an email client does.
>>> I am aware of this but it does not fall into my "full scale"
>>> understanding of how it works and/or how to implement it.  Not too
>>> long ago I briefly spoke with a list member who does this so I
>>> opted to "bait" him into the conversation; or others that may have
>>> offered a full and accurate explanation on hat particular subject.
>>>
>>>> * you yourself worked ON a system for at least a year, which not
>>>> only made links clickable but actually launched them itself,
>>>> from filepro.
>>>> (I don't remember how long he worked for us, a year? more? less?
>>>> but it was sure long enough to have seen a desprint print-to-pdf
>>>> or a scanning demo.)
>>> I did not pay too much attention to your filePro code, hate fpWeb
>>> and I was "told" not to touch the processing table (Linda I think
>>> ...), this was yours and/or two other very specific staff members
>>> to deal with ... in fact, I had to go out of my way to try to find
>>> ways to get around this processing table but it proved to be a
>>> grave error (I dropped the ball and I am no longer with the
>>> Company).
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Today it's "what possible use would nestable call tables be?"
>>>
>>> This could be a trap if not properly terminated, just like
>>> "gosubs".  It is a matter of programming techniques and/or approach
>>> to a problem.  filePro, AFAIK, is not an OOP language nor it is a
>>> procedural language but the "call/chain" is the closest it will
>>> come to a "procedural" language ...the way I see it.
>>>
>>> Again, I can see calling one or two tables but the use of "nested"
>>> and wonder about how deep you can go gives me pause and wonder why
>>> one would need more than two or three ... I have written very
>>> large and very complex filePro application and never needed more
>>> than one, perhaps because I adopted to the handicap back then.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Hi I've been programming for 20 years..."
>>> Yes I have, and I can hold my own next to anyone ... but that does
>>> not mean I get the results in the exact same manner you would.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Regards,
>> ....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.
>>
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Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

personal e-mail: ras at anzio.com
  company e-mail: rsi at anzio.com
           voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time)
             fax: (US) 503-624-0760
             web: http://www.anzio.com
  street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc.
                  10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9
                  Portland, OR  97223  USA