| Published By | Date | Version | Knowledge Level | Keywords |
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| Sprezzatura Ltd | 01 NOV 1991 | 2.1+ | EXPERT | MAKEFILE, DEFINEFILE, V19, LIST, VOLUME, V24, GET.FILING.SYSTEM.NAME, V25, LISTFILES, V27, DELETEFILE, V28, DICTCOMPILE, V29, BLIST, DEPEND.UPDATE, LOOKDICT, V45, V53, V61, V76, V77, V87, LISTMEDIA, SYS.POPUPS, LISTVOL, QFILE, RECORDCOPY, CAPTURE.SUB, MSG, DEFAULT, WC_SRC_FILE%, %SK%, @DICT, NORESOLVE, V92, PUTCONFIGURE, V93, V94, V95, V96, V116, V117, @STAT.REC, WC_RESET% |
To ensure that your documentation is as up to date as possible we continue our occasional series intended to bring previous REVMEDIA articles into line with release 2.1 of AREV. My thanks to all subscribers who have helped by notifying me of bugs or discrepancies.
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| 5 | V19 - MAKEFILE is now the DEFINEFILE processor. Remember the FIELDS= syntax added with release 2.0 (See I3.17 System Reference). |
| 5 | V24 - LIST VOLUMES FILES should be replaced with LIST VOLUMES FILE.LIST. (Try LOOKDICT VOLUMES). Note also that the symbolic dictionary item FILE.TYPE in the VOLUMES file contains useful online documentation in the use of the system function GET.FILING.SYSTEM.NAME. |
| 6 | V25 - It would seem that the only modifiers working in 2.1 are(A To include "System" files (N To omit the sort (P To output to printer Note that the old forms of LISTFILEs are no longer left on the TCL stack so it is no longer instructive to examine the stack to see how options are implemented. |
| 6 | V27 - Note that the full calling syntax for DICTCOMPILE isDICTCOMPILE dict filename keys If a select list is active keys may be omitted. To recompile all dictionary items in a file use a * in place of keys. |
| 6 | V28 - In addition to (S, DELETEFILE also supports (E and (L as per RECORDCOPY. |
| 6 | V29 - (N (for suppress page logic) is supported. Note that BLIST can be used on symbolic dictionary items, eg BLIST DICT FILES FILE.TYPE. |
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| 3 | DEPEND.UPDATE - there have been reports from the field that this is unreliable in release 2.1. |
| 5 | V45 - Note that LOOKDICT will ignore dictionary items beginning with % or not having TYPE F S or G. Note further that the output of LOOKDICT may be modified by customising the SYS.POPUPS record LISTDICT. |
| 5 | V47 - Has been removed. |
| 5 | V53 - Has been removed |
| 6 | V61 - The output of LISTMEDIA may be modified by customising the SYS.POPUPS record LISTVOL. |
| 6 | V76 - !files are now automatically attached if required for Qfile operations. |
| 7 | V77 - (A for display record keys deleted is supported as per RECORDCOPY. |
| 7 | V87 - Used by CAPTURE.SUB when capturing screen images using the extended Alt-8, Alt-F8 functionality for screen grabbing documented in Technical Bulletin #54 by Alan Humphrey. |
| 10 | MESSAGE - two extra parameters have been added, so that the calling syntax is nowMESSAGE(X,Y,MSG,ATTR,ACTION,IMAGE,PARAMS,WIDTH) NB MSG can now be a message ID in the message file. If this is the case, PARAMS will be used to fill in %1% etc as with a normal MSG call. WIDTH is used to specify a maximum width for a message. |
| 10 | DEFAULT - note that to use DEFAULT the program declaring default must be a routine including WINDOW_COMMON%. Further, additional parameters may need to be loaded. EG for %SK% to work both @DICT and WC_SRC_FILE% must be loaded correctly. |
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| 4 | Context sensitive help. <@POS> now also works for T type popups. In addition <@ROW> returns the current row number within the popup. |
| 4 | In place of a list of keys, a select statement may be put into field 4 of a popup. This is then executed as a select before the popup is displayed. For maximum effect this command should be used in conjunction with the NORESOLVE keyword. |
| 4 | Dave Mills of the NCC points out "If you pre-tag selections on an ordered popup (MULTIPLE = "O"), the selected popup choices will be highlighted, but the order column will not be filled in. If you subsequently delete a popup choice, or select an additional one, the order column will then be recalculated and displayed.". |
| 5 | V92 - Used by PUTCONFIGURE routine to update the system configuration details. |
| 5 | V93 - Used to install optional modules. |
| 5 | V94 - Used to prompt for modules to delete |
| 5 | V95 - Used to delete optional module |
| 5 | V116 - Note that if the file is being redefined onto another volume, the source file will not be automatically deleted. For this reason the standard command line modifiers (D) (Delete source after redefine), (N) (New file inhibit) and O (Overwrite) can be used. |
| 5 | V117 - (L) locks the file and prevents other users modifying records in the file when it is being dumped, if coordinated locking is used. |
| 11 | As highlighted by Mike Pope below, @STAT.REC can no longer be used to ascertain whether a window is currently active. RevTI are currently considering adding a flag to help the developer to check this, but in the meantime developers needing this functionality can download a routine from Compuserve provided by Pat McNerthney of Icicle Software which returns the number of common variables active. If there are 135, then WINDOW_COMMON% has been declared and a window must be active. |
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| 4 | Due to a rationalisation of the way in which WC_RESET% works in 2.1 (see a future REVMEDIA article), WC_RESET% may now be set to any value between 2 and 5 to force redisplay of the loaded AMVs. |
(Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 4-6)