Re: String Question for UIM menu

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wim

I tried this and got the oath name as is in mixed case but with full 
quotes, as you say. I did not get the extra character at the end. However, 
I did not use the &MSG thing. What is in that msg description?

I seem to remember something about using dialog variables, and then the 
case is not converted. Trouble is, you can't use those in menu-type panel 
groups - you need to have a program fill in the string values. You can do 
menus this way - they'd become *PGM type menus that use a panel group with 
only a MENU area in it, and that actually gives you some flexibility, 
although there is more work in responding to the various options, etc. I've 
just started down this route, so I have only a little experience with this.

HTH
Vern

At 09:54 PM 3/12/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I try to get this uim menu code right:
>
> :MENUI OPTION=11
> HELP='DSTM/OPT11H'
> ACTION='CMD ?EDTF "/QOpenSys/sde/configuration/ffer.cfg"'
> .&MSG(MNU09C1).
>
> The idea is that the EDTF is prompted with the directory in single quotes
> and in the case as typed in the source since qopensys is case sensitive. I
> have tried all sorts of combinations single and double quote combinations
> but i had no luck. The FM does not mention anything on quoting in UIM
> panels.
>
> If i include the text in single quotes, the directory names are uppercased.
>
> The combination above seems to run the best but i get strange results, there
> is a "g" appended to the filename so i end up editing the cfgg file
>
> Is there a uim guru around??
>
> Regards,
>
> Wim