Question about the Quick SelectBox

[Robert Mills]

Hi all,

Have some fields where the user has to select between a few (between 2 and
6) options. As these options do not change, have used SelectBox where the
available values are held in the dictionary. Now need to add 'selection
boxes', where the available options are on disc, to some other fields. Idea
was to write some menu screens that could be called from the fields input
procedure if a certain value was entered. Standard 'popup screens' that most
of us have used before and as documented in Cognos' SupportLink back in
1992.

Here is the problem:

SelectBox is activated by the hash and my 'popup screens' are activated by a
dollar sign. User does not like having to use different keys to do the same
thing. My fault as the popup screen looks just like the SelectBox output.

Solutions?

1) Replace all SelectBox's with 'popup screens' - loads of programs to
write.
2) Put a marker at the end of each field that has a lookup - loads of
screens to change.
3) Get QUIZ to do the correct thing when a single character is entered --
probably still have to change the screens but may be quicker.
4) A better option suggested by you??

Running:

PH819C4 on MPE/iX 5.5 pp7

Regards,
Robert

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