Re: Use data area in UIM menu?

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Loyd:

On Mon, 04 March 2002, "Goodbar, Loyd \(AFS-Water Valley\)" wrote:

> I didn't find anything to cover this, but is there a way to show the
> contents of a data area in a UIM menu?

AFAIK, in order to control (dynamically) data on a UIM panel, you have to take 
the step just beyond pure menues and venture into UIM applications. Menu panel 
groups can have DATA tags, but I don't think there's any way to manipulate the 
data elements without updating the UIM variable pool before displaying the 
menu. This probably means the GO command wouldn't be valid for that menu. You'd 
need to call the UIM APIs to open the application and update the variables, 
then display the panel group and finally close the application.

I've never found a way even to get message text to change dynamically (as part 
of a compiled *PNLGRP menu object). It seems to grab the text at compile time.

If anybody knows, I'd sure like to hear.

Tom Liotta

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