Re: Did the user press Enter or Field+

May I ask why you do this?  What could your pre-compiler do that isn't 
already provided?  I am not questioning what you are doing at all, it is 
just that I don't understand what features this provides that aren't 
already provided.  For instance numeric editing is already well handled by 
DDS, and error strings with data values are simple with the EVAL Opcode. 
How would one implement the DIVI Opcode in RPGLE code?  Where is a place 
that one would use  MLINE?

Please understand: I am being curious, not argumentative. 

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Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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Torbjörn Görtz <torbjorn.gortz@swipnet.se>
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06/19/2000 07:48 PM
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Booth Martin wrote:
> A question for you:  Are you using  Y  as the field on the DDS or are 
you 
> using S?  Y gives a much better behaved application. 

Well  ...  I make my programs in a homebuild precompiler for
RPG400.  Numeric fields come as alphanumeric input and are
automatically converted to numeric with correct decimal position.
I have a lot of help in building new programs with the precompiler.
For example, automatic position the cursor on the field which
course the error.  A macro-function which make many common
tasks very simple.  Like:
  Numeric editing
  Date check and aritmetric
  Compute check-digit
  and so on
A number of simplified commands, like:
  ONCE ...  END
  IFCHANGE ... END
  DIVI   (ignore div by zero, result in that case is zero)
  MLINE   (move whole next line to a field)
  Simplified inline error message with field-data
  and so on

I hope to some day get time to rebuild the precompiler for
RPG IV. And I am waiting for the free format calculation
commands in next version of RPG.

Torbjörn Görtz
Sweden


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