Re: Named Indicators...

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxx>]

One person wrote:

> Personally (and this is my opinion, many people have already told
>  me I was nuts)  I prefer to see *INKC or *INKE used instead of
>  *IN03/*IN05, and I also prefer to see *INKC over a "named indicator".

And another person wrote:
 
> 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.

And yet another person:

> Just to give a different perspective. Here, we NEVER use indicator for 
>function keys (no inkc, no in03).
> Instead, we use the IOFeedback (infds) area of the display file to determine 
>the key pressed. So our code look
> like:
> 
>  if  KeyPress = F03

Here's what _I_ do.  I fire up ProGen Plus and do it that way.  I just
decide what function key will do what and never even look at the
generated code.  I haven't written a new interactive (let alone subfile)
program in at least 5 years.  I couldn't write one now if I tried.

-- 
-Jeff
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