RE: Choice Programs

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?

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Parlin, NJ  08859


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 2:17 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Choice Programs
>
>
> Art,
>
> >Any chance you'd consider posting the calendar program
> somewhere?  That is
> >exactly what I'd like to include while doing our Y2K conversion.
>
> This mailing list doesn't support attachments, and I don't consider it
> apppropriate to post in-line either due to length.  I could email you
> a copy, but I don't think what I use is exactly what you are looking
> for.
>
> >From your other post, it sounds like you want the ability
> for the user
> to scroll forward or back for a number of months/years.  As
> implemented, my program won't do this -- it just shows a 12 month
> period ending with the next month.  By enlarging the 2000-byte return
> parameter to the maximum (undocumented) 10,240 byte limit, you could
> get about 5 years.
>
> But if you really want a window with no limits and the abililty for
> the operator to key a month and/or year, you can do that too.  Just
> have the choice program open its own display file and handle the user
> navigation.  Unfortunately, when they select a date you can't return
> that directly to the command prompter, as I complained in another
> post.
>
> Let me know if you need a copy of how I did the 12-month calendar
> display.
>
> Doug
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