710G Problems

[Mike Palandri]

At 10:44 AM 12/15/1998 -0600, Alex.Coker@ipaper.com wrote:
>Has anyone experienced problems with the up-arrow recall on quick
screens in
>PowerHouse 710G on Open VMS 7.1?
>If so, is it corrected in 710G1?
>
>Alex Coker

We ran into this in 710F3.  The up arrow's behavior seems to have changed
since 620E, our previous production version.  In 620E it seemed performed
different functions depending on context: if you were entering data on a
recurring record, it functioned as DUPLICATE (Underscore), if you we in
change mode, it functioned as RECALL (Control B).  This behavior occured
with no changes to the key's mapping in QKGO.

In our installation of 710F3, it functions as RECALL only, it does not
function as DUPLICATE in any context, which means that nothing happens
when you press Up arrow when you want to duplicate.  

Tech support said the cure was to map it to DUPLICATE in QKGO, which
works for DUPLICATE, but hoses the RECALL function.  We tried a variety
of mappings in QKGO, for instance mapping it to Single Line RECALL in
Text Editing and DUPLICATE in Data Fields, but no luck; tech support
confirmed that a single mnemonic can't be used in two places in the QKGO
TIC file.

We decided to map it to DUPLICATE and tell users to use Control B to
Recall.  Not the best solution, but the only thing we could come up with
to handle this improvement in PowerHouse.

If anyone has a better work around, please post it.



Mike