PowerHouse Features (was AS/400 - QUICK Control Function keys F7 & F8)

[Robert Mills]

Conrad,

I see that Release 8, which I understand uses a 'common code base', is now
available on all platforms except the AS/400. Is the AS/400 joining this
group and if so will features like HOLD FIND be available to the rest of us?

regards,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Whittall, Conrad [mailto:Conrad.Whittall@Cognos.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:29 PM
To: 'Daniel Mielke'; Powerhouse List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: AS/400 - QUICK Control Function keys F7 & F8 


Hello Daniel,

I thought I detected a touch of the "Reinke" influence in that example :-)

Your in luck because you are on an AS/400...where the HOLD FIND option of
the SCREEN statement is available. As the manual says,

"If you specify HOLD, QUICK doesn't automatically start a new find sequence
after the last record from the primary file is displayed. When the last
record of a detail file (or the first record when PAGEBACK is used) is
displayed, the user must use the Next (N) command to display the next
primary record."

I remember using this quite extensively with an AS/400 customer in London
(England that is, not Ontario). In their applications we also declared an
expression within the screen to make use of the ENDOFDATA function, like
this...

DEFINE d_more    CHARACTER*7      &
     = "End" IF ENDOFDATA = 1     &
  ELSE "Start" IF ENDOFDATA = -1  &
  ELSE "More..."

...which we displayed in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen in true
"CUA" fashion :-)

Check the PowerHouse for AS/400 QDESIGN Statement Reference (version 6.07)
manual for details. See page 452 for a discussion of the HOLD FIND option of
the SCREEN statement, and page 178 for the ENDOFDATA function.

Best regards,
Conrad

Conrad Whittall
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Mielke [mailto:DMielke@aicfunds.com]
Sent: Tuesday 15 May 2001 17:00
To: Powerhouse List (E-mail)
Subject: AS/400 - QUICK Control Function keys F7 & F8 


Hello all,

I'm looking to control the block transfer of records in a cluster for a
display screen.

The following screen displays the races for a specified Rat's Ratlets.

RATRACES                       Rat Races Screen

               Rat number: 123456    Rat Name:  Slick Rat

Ratlet-no      Ratlet      Race number    Earnings      Final position
1                Mini rat           456             $3,450.00          1
7                Super rat         466             $    70.00          5
13              Slow rat           542             $      0.00         16


COMMAND ===>________________________________

If there were additional races for Rat 123456, F8 or [ENTER] would list the
next cluster of RAT-RACES.

However, since there are no more races, the F8 or [ENTER] clears the list
and returns to the command in find mode.  The same occurs for [F7] when the
user is at the initial list of races.

How do I control these function keys such that the user may scroll through
the existing records stopping at both the end and the beginning without
clearing the screen?

Special thanks to Chuck Reinke for the use of the Rat/Ratlets analogy


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