RE: GO to a menu within CL program

If you leave the CL in the call stack, won't control return to it when the
user presses F3 or F12 from the menu?  You could at this point restore the
original library list in the CL that called the menu.


Joe Giusto II
Patuxent Publishing Company
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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Jeff Crosby [SMTP:jlcrosby@fwi.com]
        Sent:   Thursday, October 29, 1998 7:41 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re: GO to a menu within CL program

        "Fisher, Don" wrote:
        > 
        > Just out of curiosity, why is removing the CL program from the
stack an
        > issue?
        > 

        As I give it more thought, it may not be.  Here's the scoop.  We use
        Inventory Management of DMAS.  It's the only DMAS app we use, so
from
        this point on, when I say "DMAS" think "DMAS Inventory Management".

        We are upgrading from a 10-year-old version to the current Y2K
compliant
        version.  The latest requires 4 libraries to be in the library list
        (DMASDTA, DMASPGM, DMASMOD, and DMASSVC).  The only users that need
        these libraries are the buyers, and then only while in DMAS.  So I
don't
        want them to be in the library list all day long.

        When someone needs to enter into DMAS, I want them to take a menu
        option.  The menu option is a CL program that adds these libraries
to
        the library list, displays the main DMAS menu, then exits.  When the
        user is finished with DMAS for a while, they will take an option on
this
        main DMAS menu that removes these libraries from the library list,
        displays their initial sign on menu and exits.

        If they enter and leave DMAS repeatedly during the day, more and
more
        copies of the CL programs (both the enter and exit ones) will be in
the
        call stack.  Another thought I just had (and haven't really thought
        thru) is to make the DMAS menu a program menu from which they have
to
        press F3 or F12 to exit.  Maybe this idea will bear fruit.

        -- 
        -Jeff

        jlcrosby@fwi.com
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