Re: Choice Programs

[lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (lg - Loyd Goodbar)]

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:18:48 -0500, boothm@ibm.net wrote:

>What is it you wish to do?  I don't understand what you mean by a "choice 
>program."

Prompt choice programs are used in commands to allow a dynamic or changeable
list of values for a parameter.

For example, I have a choice program that allows the user to select a member
from a multi-member file. Rather than hard-coding the member names in the
command definition, use a prompt choice program to read the member
description, and create the member list on the fly.

Or, if you have a file containing valid parameter values, you read it into the
parameter when the user presses F4 on that parameter.

While I'm sure they are useful for other things (I think Bruce V.'s displays
installed languages), I haven't run into those other things.

The only drawback I've found so far (and I could be wrong with this) is that
you only can code the actual values; you can't get a value and description
(for instance, a member name and its member text).

Loyd
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