Automatic Screen Refresh

[Joe Boyle]

Oops, I think an old Cognos brain cell came back to life.

This brain cell tells me that it is 99% certain that you can only run
commands which complete on the server without direct input from the client.
There is no means by which an Axiant client can communicate with a process
running on the server.

So much for my comment 'if it works in PH it should work in Axiant', many
apologies for misleading you.


-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of PAUL DIACONESCU
Sent: 24 June 2004 12:58
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com; bob.deskin@cognos.com
Subject: RE: Automatic Screen Refresh

It is what we are doing, a push find every xx seconds.
In order to get out of that we use an input to a system variable, with a 
time-out.
After we check the value of the system-variable. If it is not blank, it 
means that the user hit any letter on the keyboard. In this case, we stop 
the loop, and prompt the user (request) for an other value (a new find).
It's working fine in powerhouse, but in axiant it loops.

exemple:
RUN COMMAND 'SETVAR ZFIND,""'
RUN COMMAND 'INPUT ZFIND WAIT=30' NOWARN ON ERROR CONTINUE
LET T-DUMMY = GETSYSTEMVAL("ZFIND")
IF T-DUMMY <> ''  "
   THEN
   REQUEST ITEM-NO
ELSE
   PUSH FIND
ETC...

;------------
All that just to simulate a missing powerhouse command, something like: 
'REQUEST ITEM-NO WAIT 30', which will wait for an user input in ITEM-NO for 
30 seconds, after it gets back to the logic of the program.

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