Application Post-Index Processes (AREV Specific)
At 07 JAN 1998 12:26:26AM Matt Sorrell wrote:
We have an application that our end-users run at night as an end-of-day process. This process requires that they provide input at
three different times. The first time is a collector window, and the next two instances are multi-select, explicit info popups. Up to this point, if the users walked away from the system without providing info for those three screens, the system would stay where they left it until someone came in the next morning to kick the process off ( a 3 hour process). I am trying to figure out a way to kick the system past the two popups if the system is left there. Currently, I set one of the @USER variables to identify where in the process the system is. I then hooked a post-indexing process that tests the @USER variable, and based on the test, either does nothing, or kicks the program on. In order to kick the program on, right now I'm having to fill the keyboard buffer variable (@DATA) with the character (char(27)). I tried using a Catalyst("K","{ESC}"), but that wouldn't pass from my post-index process back to the popup. Is there a way to do that, or is my best bet to fill @DATA?
Also, I tried passing , but because it is a 2 byte control character, instead of just one, I couldn't pass it. Is there a way to pass 2 byte ASCII codes besides using CATALYST?
If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it. And I apologize this note is so long.
Matt Sorrell
ixoye96@aol.com