Update Stay
Bob Deskin
Bob.Deskin at ca.ibm.com
Fri Jun 5 13:00:16 CDT 2009
You would have to start a new QUICK process to load the new QKGO file.
Passing data between different QUICK processes is not simple.
Bob
From:
Roger L Marcinik <rmarcinik at juno.com>
To:
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Date:
06/05/2009 01:31 PM
Subject:
Re: Update Stay
If one wanted to use the QKGO option, couldn't one have multiple QKGO
files and call a matching QKGO file when a particular screen is called?
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> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:30:31 -0700
> From: Karen Barrett <kbarrett00 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Update Stay
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> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I don't see it anywhere in the documentation but what I would like
> to do is put some conditional processing in the preupdate module if
> the user has entered US but not U or UN or UR.
>
>
>
> Has anyone found a little trick for this? US keeps the record
> buffers but that does not help me until postupdate right?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Karen Barrett
>
> Elk Point, SD
>
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> From: Bob Deskin <Bob.Deskin at ca.ibm.com>
> Subject: Re: Update Stay
> To: Karen Barrett <kbarrett00 at hotmail.com>
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> Unless someone's found a back door or a hack, there's no way to
> intercept
> a QUICK command. However, there is a sneaky way to possibly do what
> you
> want. The downside is that it will affect every screen.
>
> Normally, QUICK commands are case insensitive. Plus, they are
> checked
> first when you enter something in the action field. So even if you
> create
> a DESIGNER procedure named US, the QUICK command US comes first.
>
> The way around this is to use QKGO. First make sure that Upshift
> Actions
> is set to Y in the Execution-Time Parameters screen. Next go to the
> Action
> Field Commands screen and change the Update Stay command to lower
> case us.
> It can actually be any lower case characters but I like to use us so
> that
> it reminds me of what I'm trying to hide.
>
> At this point, if the user entered us or US, they would get an
> Unknown
> Command message because whatever they enter is upshifted but the
> command
> is in lower case.
>
> Now write a DESIGNER procedure named US. You can either code your
> special
> US logic in the designer procedure or set a flag that you can test
> in the
> PREUPDATE. Also, code a PUSH UPDATE STAY so that you get the same
> command
> execution as the user entered.
>
> The downside is that this will affect every screen using this QKGO
> file.
> So you'll have to code a US designer procedure with PUSH UPDATE
> STAY.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> From:
> Karen Barrett <kbarrett00 at hotmail.com>
> To:
> PowerhouseList Post <powerh-l at lists.sowder.com>
> Date:
> 06/04/2009 02:32 PM
> Subject:
> Update Stay
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I don't see it anywhere in the documentation but what I would like
> to do
> is put some conditional processing in the preupdate module if the
> user has
> entered US but not U or UN or UR.
>
> Has anyone found a little trick for this? US keeps the record
> buffers but
> that does not help me until postupdate right?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karen Barrett
> Elk Point, SD
>
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> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:06:22 -0400
> From: "Pickering, John (NORBORD)" <John.Pickering at norbord.com>
> Subject: RE: Update Stay
> To: "Bob Deskin" <Bob.Deskin at ca.ibm.com>, "Karen Barrett"
> <kbarrett00 at hotmail.com>
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> I'm happy to learn from Bob that there really isn't any way to
> detect
> which Update command the user entered. I've looked and never found
> one.
>
> What I have done in a couple of cases is to make the Update Stay
> command
> behave like the others by pushing Enter or Find (depending on mode)
> in
> the Postupdate procedure. Then I know the buffers aren't hanging
> around.
> This was useful when the update changed something that would affect
> the
> retrieval that Quick was doing.
>
> JWP
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-bounces+john.pickering=norbord.com at lists.sowder.com
> [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+john.pickering=norbord.com at lists.sowder.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Bob Deskin
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:52 PM
> To: Karen Barrett
> Cc: powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=ca.ibm.com at lists.sowder.com;
> PowerhouseList Post
> Subject: Re: Update Stay
>
> Unless someone's found a back door or a hack, there's no way to
> intercept
> a QUICK command. However, there is a sneaky way to possibly do what
> you
> want. The downside is that it will affect every screen.
>
> Normally, QUICK commands are case insensitive. Plus, they are
> checked
> first when you enter something in the action field. So even if you
> create
> a DESIGNER procedure named US, the QUICK command US comes first.
>
> The way around this is to use QKGO. First make sure that Upshift
> Actions
>
> is set to Y in the Execution-Time Parameters screen. Next go to the
> Action
> Field Commands screen and change the Update Stay command to lower
> case
> us.
> It can actually be any lower case characters but I like to use us
> so
> that
> it reminds me of what I'm trying to hide.
>
> At this point, if the user entered us or US, they would get an
> Unknown
> Command message because whatever they enter is upshifted but the
> command
>
> is in lower case.
>
> Now write a DESIGNER procedure named US. You can either code your
> special
> US logic in the designer procedure or set a flag that you can test
> in
> the
> PREUPDATE. Also, code a PUSH UPDATE STAY so that you get the same
> command
> execution as the user entered.
>
> The downside is that this will affect every screen using this QKGO
> file.
>
> So you'll have to code a US designer procedure with PUSH UPDATE
> STAY.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> From:
> Karen Barrett <kbarrett00 at hotmail.com>
> To:
> PowerhouseList Post <powerh-l at lists.sowder.com>
> Date:
> 06/04/2009 02:32 PM
> Subject:
> Update Stay
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I don't see it anywhere in the documentation but what I would like
> to do
>
> is put some conditional processing in the preupdate module if the
> user
> has
> entered US but not U or UN or UR.
>
> Has anyone found a little trick for this? US keeps the record
> buffers
> but
> that does not help me until postupdate right?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karen Barrett
> Elk Point, SD
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 13:53:06 -0700
> From: Karen Barrett <kbarrett00 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Update Stay
> To: <john.pickering at norbord.com>, <bob.deskin at ca.ibm.com>
> Cc: PowerhouseList Post <powerh-l at lists.sowder.com>
> Message-ID: <COL102-W476417FEEDBFAA451D2774C24B0 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>
> Thanks Bob for the confirmation that there is no hook I had missed.
> I don't want to make a global change with the qkg so I'll just keep
> doing things the way I always have.
>
>
> Karen
> > Subject: RE: Update Stay
> > Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:06:22 -0400
> > From: John.Pickering at norbord.com
> > To: Bob.Deskin at ca.ibm.com; kbarrett00 at hotmail.com
> > CC: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
> >
> > I'm happy to learn from Bob that there really isn't any way to
> detect
> > which Update command the user entered. I've looked and never found
> one.
> >
> > JWP
> >
> > Behalf Of Bob Deskin
> > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:52 PM
> > To: Karen Barrett
> > Cc: powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=ca.ibm.com at lists.sowder.com;
> > PowerhouseList Post
> > Subject: Re: Update Stay
> >
> > Unless someone's found a back door or a hack, there's no way to
> > intercept
> > a QUICK command. However, there is a sneaky way to possibly do
> what you
> > want. The downside is that it will affect every screen.
> >
> > 06/04/2009 02:32 PM
> > Subject:
> > Update Stay
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I don't see it anywhere in the documentation but what I would like
> to do
> > is put some conditional processing in the preupdate module if the
> user
> > has entered US but not U or UN or UR.
> >
> > Has anyone found a little trick for this? US keeps the record
> buffers
> > but that does not help me until postupdate right?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Karen Barrett
> > Elk Point, SD
> >
>
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