Re: GUI RLU (was Record Number / RPG cycle)

Hello Booth.

I suppose I should answer this since it is my code you're playing with.

Multiple CHGVARs are the only way in CL.  If you are concerned about the 
efficiency of the code you could simply 
save the individual time values (LEFT_HR, RIGHT_HR, LEFT_MIN, and RIGHT_MIN) 
and compare them so you'ld 
only set the minimum number of indicators.

The following changes will allow a function key to gracefully terminate the 
clock:

CLOCKD -- Add the following lines
========
A                                      CA03(03 'Exit') 

A                                 23  2'F3=Exit' COLOR(BLU) 

CLOCKC
========
            /* Display the clock face                              */ 
            SNDRCVF    WAIT(*NO)                                      
            MONMSG     MSGID(CPF0887) EXEC(DO)                        
            RCVMSG     MSGTYPE(*EXCP)                                 
              RCVF                                                    
            ENDDO                                                     
                                                                      
            IF         COND(&IN03 *EQ &ON) THEN(RETURN)               
                                                                      
The above code replaces the current SNDF command and fits before the DLYJOB 
command.  The 'strangeness' of the 
construct is necessary to satisfy device requirments for the order of I/O 
operations.

What are "figlet" letters?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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//--- forwarded letter -------------------------------------------------------
> X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0a  May 4, 1999
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:57:07 +0000
> From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Reply-To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Cc: none
> Subject: GUI RLU (was Record Number / RPG cycle)

> 
> After Scott's answer this morning I decided I must have missed something. 
> Sure enough John, there' a  "design" command that I'd never seen before. 
> That made a lot of difference. 
> 
> Simon's CL digital clock was what I decided to use as my "going to school" 
> example.  I liked the way the Code/400 designer worked, allowing me to 
> paste in figlet letters instead of the 88:88:88 stick numbers.
> 
> I came away with two questions: In CL with a DDS screen how do you turn 
> off 59 indicators every cycle?  There has got to be something better than 
> CHGVAR repeated 59 times, hasn't there?   And, number 2, is there a way to 
> monitor for a function key?  I want the clock to tick off the seconds, 
> which I suppose means a SNDRCVF *NO followed by a DLYJOB command, and then 
> a GOTO.  But I don't understand a way the job can be interrupted and then 
> ended gracefully.
> 
> 
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> http://www.spy.net/~booth

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