Re: Named Indicators...

["Brad Felber" <poprpg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> And I, just as personally, hate to see the ink* indicators.  Our shop
> standard is that *in01-*in24 are reserved for function keys and if you see
> one you know what it means. Boy do I dislike seeing *inkj and wondering
what
> was pressed (<counting on fingers> a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j - 10 - he pressed
F10.
> No, wait.  'i' does not count. Start over a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,j  - 9 - he
pressed
> F9.  Wow.  Sure am glad the programmer did not just set *in09 on when the
> user pressed F9.  That would be way hard.

But the problem with this is it only works if you have all home grown
software, and followed the standard from day one.  if you ever purchase some
software and it uses *in10 for some type of chain indicatator, then you have
to double check to make sure it really is F10 (which it isn't).  and as for
having to look things up, you never look up an opcode becase you just
happened to forget something like which indicatator it would turn on if
someone unusual happens.  *INKC is ALWAYS F3.  unless you do something
really unusual and try to make it hard on future modifications.

Brad Felber
CSE, Inc
bradf@csepromo.com

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