Re: RCVF WAIT(*NO)

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Juris,

In a message dated 97-08-12 13:59:00 EDT, you write:

<<snip>>
> P.S. Could someone of you give a brief description of panel groups?

Panel groups are a screen language written by IBM to be used exclusively by
themselves, primarily for menus and help text.  On one of the V2 releases
(don't remember which one) of OS/400, IBM allowed all developers access to
them.  I don't use the menu functions myself, but I do use the help text
quite a bit.

Panel groups are a bit of a paradigm shift for long time 3GL programmers;
however, once you grasp the syntax, panel groups are quite easy to use.  The
great thing about panel groups is that they support inheritance in a limited
fashion.  For instance, we created a help text dictionary that contains all
of our commonly used elements (eg., F1=Help, F3=Exit, Item Number=a unique 15
digit number that identifies products within the system, etc.).  When we
create a panel group, commonly used fields and functions are included in it
via the IMPORT command rather than re-keying them for every panel.  When a
change is made to the help text dictionary, there are no level checks or
similar problems -- new verbiage automatically appears in every panel group
that references the subject WITHOUT re-compiling!!!  I like them a lot, and
would recommend them to anyone...

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

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