Passing Parms from Quick to Quiz

[Michael Lee]

There are several ways to do what you want to do Abraham. I'm assuming that you
are passing data for prompts of some sort. The basic way is to build a
temporary file (which must be declared in the dictionary). You can then do LETs
and PUT file RESET to this file to place the data in it. You can then simply
call QUIZ with the input redirected to the file. Here is some sample code:

PROCEDURE DESIGNER QUIZ
BEGIN
    RUN COMMAND "BUILD INPUT;REC=-80,,F,ASCII;TEMP"
    RUN COMMAND "FILE INPUT=INPUT"
    LET INPUT-ITEM OF INPUT = MYKEY OF MYFILE
    PUT INPUT RESET
    LET INPUT-ITEM OF INPUT = ANOTHER-VALUE OF MYFILE
    PUT INPUT RESET
    RUN COMMAND "QUIZ AUTO=QUIZPROG < INPUT"
END

If the file is NOT in your dictionary you could do the following instead...

PROCEDURE DESIGNER QUIZ
BEGIN
    LET T-COMMAND = "echo " + MYKEY OF MYFILE + " > INPUT"
    RUN COMMAND T-COMMAND
    LET T-COMMAND = "echo " + ANOTHER-VALUE OF MYFILE + &
                                         " >> INPUT "
    RUN COMMAND "QUIZ AUTO=QUIZPROG < INPUT"
END

If you have numeric values in both cases you must ASCII the value prior to
moving it to the INPUT file. If you have a key value put in a blank to get out
of the CHOOSE loop (unless you are using the PROMPT 1 TIME parameter).

You can also do a SETSYSTEMVAL in QUICK and a GETSYSTEMVAL in QUIZ.

Hope this helps.

Michael Lee
MCL Systems Inc.



Abraham Zwygart wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I will need run quiz from a quick screen, and pass several arguments to
> quiz.  The system that I am working on is:
> OS HP3000 5.5p6
>  ph  v8.19c2
>
> I known this was not possible in version 7.29?
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.   Thanks
>
> Abraham Z.                               Senior Programmer Analysts
> Anodizing Inc.                            Email: azwygart@anodizing.com
> 7933 N. E. 21st Avenue            Phone: (503) 972-1404 x 1232
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>
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