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Doug,

>What do you mean that the value can't be returned to the command prompter?
>Does that mean it also doesn't get passed to the CPP?  That is useless,
>right?

In the traditional design of choice programs, you return a list which
the command prompter displays in subfile-like fashion on a panel
titled "Specify Value for Paramteter XXXX", where it gives you the
type of value expected, the prompt text, and a field for keying your
desired value.

The calendar display choice program I sent you via email formats the
"return list" to look like calendars, and the operator still keys the
date but with the benefit of being able to view a calendar.

In the windowed version of a choice program, you gain the ability to
manipulate the display but lose the ability to directly return the
value to the command prompter.  Although not ideal, I still use this
to enable F4 database lookups on master files.  What it does is put a
wrapper around my standard lookup window for the file, letting the
user type a position to entry, and select a record with option 1.  The
wrapper choice program takes the return value from the lookup window,
and since it can't pass it to the command prompter directly, uses it
as the text of the "return list".  The command prompter than insists
on showing the "Specify Value for Parameter XXXX", and the operator
has to key the value now shown on the display.

I would *love* to eliminate this extraneous screen.  But it beats
losing the functionality altogether, or keying a value like *SELECT
which tells the CPP to prompt for the value.  At least the operator
only has to key the full value once, after using option 1 to identify
the record in the lookup window.

And if IBM would ever do us a big favor and add the ability to
directly return a value to the command prompter, it would be trivial
to change my choice programs.

Doug
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