RE: Defining a function key...

[Carel Teijgeler <COTeijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Having read some messages in the thread, I would like to ask those who
favour *INKx for indicators:
how do you define indicators for HELP, ROLLDOWN/PAGEUP, etc., which are
also function keys, but not covered by the *INKx indicators?

I prefer the named constants and AID approach: no indicators, a simple
/COPY member that can be used in all interactive programmes with DSPF's,
only have to be defined once.

Just my Euro-cent.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.


>Well if you're old enough to remember indicators at all, you're old enough
>to remember there were only 99 of 'em, and getting 24 more for interactive
>jobs for command keys was a blessing. Knowing that *INKx meant it was a
>command key pressed by the user, versus something that might have been set
>in the program, was valuable information as well.  I never saw the sense of
>using CF01(01) when *INKA got turned on and off anyway.  If you didn't
>understand the indicator use, check the usage table at the top of the
>program or get the heck out of the program. :-) In the old days, and in the
>old code that's still running in a lot of places, you kind of ran out of
>indicators after awhile.  Or you saved them and reused them and let the new
>guys try to figure out which overlay of the indicator array was in play now.
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