Chris, thanks for your response(s). I am writing a routine that does automated testing. In using it, the user needs to be able to enter some variable name which will be set equal to some initial value he sets. Sometimes that variable name is a global root (and normally he'd choose a temp global
Using extract mode (as you describe) is probably the simplest solution.
Another option is to use $$HTML^DILF to encode special characters as
hex. The trick here is that you need to unencode the data in the output
transform and be sure to use $$GET1^DIQ instead of global reads to gedt
the data. If
Can you do a read your self and then process the answer, handling the
^ as you wish?
new input
read Please enter variable: ,input:$get(DTIME,3600),!
...
Kevin
On 7/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris, thanks for your response(s). I am writing a routine that does
The docs say that data stored in the location can contain ^ but I'm not
sure if FileMan will check if the field being entered is an extract storage
type before it kicks out the ^ user input. After some experimenting it
appears that if the data starts with ^ the input is ignored otherwise it
Are you saying that you have tried, for example, putting a ^ in the
middle of a text entry for a field, and it is accepted?? This would
introduce terrible field-shifting errors that Chris mentioned! I've
not tried this myself, but if you have done it, I'd like to see a
screen log of the
Fileman is like a fine woman The secrets just keep slipping out.. :-)
I keep looking for the day when I will stop being surprised by it.
Kevin
On 7/5/06, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's one purpose of extract storage:
Select ZZTEST NAME: A
Are you adding 'A' as a new ZZTEST (the
Hi! When I am in Edit mode, inputting data to a Fileman file, if the input begins with an up-arrow ^ , the routine assumes I am trying to jump. So it looks something like this:
GLOBAL NAME: ^TMP($J??
GLOBAL NAME: etc.
Is there some way to enter an input beginning with an up-arrow?
Thanks,
Michael
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Hi! When I am in Edit mode, inputting data to a Fileman file, if the input
begins with an up-arrow ^ , the routine assumes I am
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Hi! When I am in Edit mode, inputting data to a Fileman file, if the input
begins with an up-arrow ^ , the routine
