Re: How to open a client access session from another session

The suggestion to go to a true GUI is the right one of course.  If his
budget could stand it I would go that route.   However if  he sees one GUI
he'll want more and that just isn't affordable for him. 

The second session would be a slave to the first, and would close when the
the first session does, or when he closed it.
 
It is my hope though to use the possibilities of the green screen to their
fullest while avoiding the Rube Goldberg style of programming.  There is
quite a lot to be said for the green screen; some of it even nice.

For instance I just added a new page to my web site:

http://www.martinvt.com/Code_Samples/SFL_Sort/sfl_sort.html

showing sortable subfile columns.  The feature is that by clicking any
column heading the subfile is sorted by that column.  Clicking the same
heading again sorts the subfile in the reverse direction.   Its certainly
not as easy to do as a GUI subfile but the demo program only has 252 lines
and sorts any of the subfile's five columns.  I hope it isn't Rube Goldberg
s style.  :)

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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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-------Original Message-------
 
From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 07/23/04 16:21:50
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: How to open a client access session from another session
 
Hi,
 
> Next small step is to open the second session, and find the device name
for
> that new session.  STRPCCMD works if I set up a specially defined .ws file
> on the PC but I wonder if there's a more embracing way.  Any suggestions?
 
I don't have enough space on the screen, so I'll use a 2nd window.  Now I
have to have that 2nd window open up automatically when the user runs the
menu option, and go away when he's done.  Then, what if he puts the wrong
window on the wrong side of the other window?  I'll have to write a
program that moves the windows into the correct sequence.
 
Is this the Rube Goldberg school of programming?
 
Booth, why don't you just use VARPG and make a bigger window?  Or a web
interface?  Or a 132 column display window?