Hi James
Ok, define list :) A choice program does provide a customized list of
possible choices in a command parameter. It's as close as I could see you
would get within the command prompter although I wholeheartedly agree it
could provide a better interface - but any list in a command works that way
*shrug* so as soon as your talking commands your stuck with the limitation
of the command prompter.
Your only other option is to write a program to do it all for you; if you
need such a drop down list or selectable list for one parameter then you may
as well go the route of just doing an input screen for the whole command and
forget prompting for any of it.
Regards
Evan Harris
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To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: "Super prompter" program
Evan Harris wrote:
Hi James
You might want to look into choice programs, which are defined at the
command parameter level.
Hmm. Never heard of such a thing, but on examination, it doesn't seem
especially relevant to the matter at hand, since (as Chuck so rightly
pointed out) it doesn't allow the user to select from the list.
Besides, it's entirely possible, at least for one of the applications,
that the file whose meta-data we're mining isn't known until the very
moment the user hits F4 to ask for the fields, and is in fact specified
as a different parameter to the same command.
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JHHL
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