Trapping Key Presses

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Nice segway to an old enhancement request of mine :-)

Below is the text of an old enhancement request which, judging by its nicely
formatted Courier nature, was probably faxed to Cognos at some time long
ago. The layout mimics an official Cognos enhancement request form from the
glory days of PowerHouse -- does anybody else remember those?

I first made this enhancement request when dfk's were introduced because
without it I was not prepared to use them. I would like to use them but we
have one key set to the "$" character which means something to all our apps
and without the ability to set a key to this character, dfk's are useless
:-(

And I'd still like the enhancement implemented!


Product Enhancement Request
===========================

Client:         (two client numbers removed)

Name:           John Pickering
Address:        (removed)
                
Phone:          (removed)
Fax:            (removed)

Category:       Software
Product:        Powerhouse
Platform:       All

Title:          Allow input of data in conditional-command list.

Description:    Expand syntax of the conditional-command list to
                allow for data to be entered via the command list.
                The effect would be the same as if the data had been
                entered by the screen operator.
                Suggest syntax such as INPUT expression but will
                settle for INPUT string for now.

Benefits:       Simulate user input with PUSH and with
                PRE and POSTCOMMAND.
                Load dfk's with other than Quick navigation commands.

Examples:       >PUSH ID 01, INPUT "XX", UPDATE STAY
                             -----------
                >KEY 1 LEVEL 1 LABEL "Lookup" DATA INPUT "$"
                                                   ---------
Comments:       This is a resubmission of a previous request, last
                submitted on 92/12/18.


Regards,
JWP