====== Reader's Clinic - Template Name at Pre-Init=====

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|Sprezzatura Ltd|01 DEC 1991|2.1+|EXPERT|TEMPLATE, PRE-INIT, @SENTENCE, @RECORD|

Scott A. Levy of Financial Information Technology asks - "How does one find
out the name of the current template when at the pre-init hook?". At first
it might seem that as the template record is in @RECORD, the template id is
in @ID. However this is not the case. Rather, regardless of whether the
window is called from TCL or via a catalyst call, @SENTENCE will be loaded
with the appropriate command string. Thus, call catalyst("W","TEST 1 2 3")
would load @SENTENCE with WINDOW TEST 1 2 3. Note further that @SENTENCE
will have been pre-trimmed so a simple field(@SENTENCE, " ", 2) can be used
to extract the template name.


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