Stuck in Selectbox

[Deskin, Bob]

As I recall, there's a Cancel command that can be used. It depends where
it's mapped on your terminal keyboard. I only remember from OpenVMS.

Bob Deskin              
PowerHouse Web Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178
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-----Original Message-----
From: stewm@canada.com [mailto:stewm@canada.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:20 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Stuck in Selectbox



I wrote several screens that are checked for accurrancy and then prepared if
everything is Ok.  When the prepared flag is 'Y' I don't let the users into
many fields...I lock them out.  And give an error message in a interal
procedure common to all edit procedures on the screen.  Works great.
However a there are a couple of fields with selectboxes.  When the error
message apprears I get stuck in the selectbox and have to kill your whole
session.  You'd think there would be more smooth way of getting out.  I
ended up coding the prepared flag check prior to an accept verb for the
field in a designer for it's screen id.  I'm a little annoyed that I had to
code it that way and that I was forced to logout.  Is there a way not to get
stuck in selectboxes when an error is given.  PowerHouse should be smart
enough to realize this predicament and return you to the action field you'd
think.  Just a quick gripe, got to get back to work now.
PH 8.13D HP-UX.

Mark Stewart
Consultants Club Corp.
Windsor, Ontario

Consultants Club Corp.
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