Re: finding menu source

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lynette,

Your question was not complete.  You are looking for the source to a
menu?  Normally, it we be in the library the menu files are in (one is
a *DSPF one is a *MSGF) and I've found them commonly in QS36SRC.  When
I do find them in there I move them to QMNUSRC.

On a side note, it is very easy to change a menu from being S36 to being
native, but there are a few things you have to be aware of.  To convert it
simply rename the menus, open the menu in SDA, close and recompile.  When
you recompile you are going to want to prompt for parameters.  Set the
Current Library (CURLIB) to *MNULIB.  This will emulate the way S36 does it
so you don't have to change your program logic.

The other problem is S36 calls menus with the MENU command.  MENU MYMENU.
Native are called with the GO command GO MYMENU.  It is not that difficult
to change these calls, since they are almost always called from other
menus.  

I would go through a library, create QMNUSRC if it didn't exist, then open
up QS36SRC and copy all the menu files (MENU and MENU##) over to my QMNUSRC
library, go into QMNUSRC and rename the first ## to QQ (so they are MENU and
MENUQQ now), do a 17 on one of them.  Edit the menu, hit F13 and start scrolling
down looking for MENU commands, and simply changing these to GO commands.  
Hit F3, Enter, enter 'Y' for prompt for parameters, change CURLIB to *MNULIB
and press enter.  Then go to the next menu.  Then I would call the menus and
make sure everything worked (99% of the time no problems).  After I was done
with all the menus I would go back into QS36SRC and delete all the S36 menus
from there.  Pretty painless and a no brainer, would do it when I had time to
spare.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Lynette Chronister wrote:
> 
> I know that there is probably a very simple way to do this, but I'm drawing a 
>blank.  Help would be appreciated.  Our main application is written in s/36.  
>I need to change a menu, but it must not be 36 because
> 
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