Re: handling handlers in RPG OA

Crispin

I believe Jon's printer file example here is about producing a browser page from a printer file, not printing the result. The ability to either have it be printed through some OUTQ or to display in a browser - that is interesting.

The question of overriding the processing, selecting at run-time which processing stream will be used, was discussed a lot in early meetings about OAR. It would not be practical, probably, to compile the developer's program to use the handler OR standard native RPG IO - and I'm not talking just 5250 - printing does not use 5250, nor does database IO. Various vendors - there are not many yet! - have solved this is different ways, I believe. You had some replies on the thread to which you refer from one of them.

So we move forward. This is an intriguing and beguiling and frustrating new technology. So what else is new with innovation?

;-)

Vern

On 3/10/2011 5:12 PM, Crispin Bates wrote:

I guess there must be 2 Jon Paris' then :)

http://forums.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/showthread.php?p=518421#poststop

Your printer example surely could be solved by the print key on a browser.
Sure, I guess there are things that just should not be printed.

I'm still hopeful that the idea of making it easy to co-exist from one
program get more traction. I'd have to go into a lot of details to convince
you why I would have needed it, and I'm not doing that on this mailing list
:)

Crispin.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Paris"<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: handling handlers in RPG OA

On Mar 10, 2011, at 5:05 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Whoa there, Jon. I thought I was "tying the bloody boat anchors to their
legs" (RPGers) when I said I would like to optionally turn the handler
off,
and revert to 5250 last July :)

I don't think that was my quote but ...

There are (as Larry has mentioned) some folks (mostly ISVs) who need to be
able to do both - even if for only a transitional period. But the
circumstances I have come up against recently involve situations where a
handler would be used to (for example) allow a printer report to be
displayed in a browser. With that scenario there are going to be times
when a "real" print is going to be needed.


Jon Paris

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