I am trying to use captured keystrokes to open a window, enter some data, close the window, and then read the record just added. Logically, I have written my code to do this. AREV doesn't seem interested in the order of commands. It executes the entire program, ignoring the CATALYST command, then executes this line last. Is ther any way to alter this?

CATALYST used to pass key strokes loads the "keyboard

buffer". Your program needs to come to a point where

the buffer is read. You may need some statement

such as "PERFORM TCL" to get your routine to the

keyboard reading mode that you want. If this seems

right, then you may need another escape character

in the buffer to terminate TCL and return back to your

program.

Not a CLUE as to what you are describing…

I believe that what you think you said is that you've written a program which does something like as follows

 Code blah blah blah

 Catalyst("@","MyCaptureSet")

 Read RowJustWritten

 Code Blah blah blah

and that when the program finishes it executes your capture script?

If so, no this won't work. All that Catalyst @ does is loads a string of keystrokes into the keyboard buffer as though you'd typed them in yourself. If you type while your program is running you don't expect that to interfere, so neither will this.

What you'll have to do is insert the line

EXECUTE "WINDOW MYWINDOW"

after the catakyst call. This will load up the window, then your catalyst keystrokes will feed in. So your catalyst shouldn't try to call the window as you'll already have done it.

Hopefully this is clearer than mud. If not post the code and we'll see what we can do.

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