Processing Table problem in FilePro 4.0

[rlmuller at uscomputergurus.com]

Hi Walter & John,

Thank you very much for your excellent responses! I oringinally responded
to Walter directly before I realized I should just reply to the list
directly with "Re: original-subject".  I'm a slow learner :-)

Responses to Walter, repeated here (with minor editing):
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> Why you are doing doesn't make much sense.

I'm trying to do two things:
1. Learn FilePro so I can upgrade a client's accounting system.
2. Generate (on my machine) a prototye of the new functionality desired ,
so I just want to generate test data here, while learning FP programming
features.

> Why are you allowing the the user to change this field?
I was envisioning a user selecting some MyCust record to update, but I see
now I'm mistakenly trying to combine creation and updating in an Input
Processing table, right?

> If you want field one to be @rn + "1000" you gotta tell
filepro you want to update the display. Put a DISPLAY before the END on
line two.

That's what I needed to learn!!

> Why are you using a version of filePro that is not Y2K aware?

Actually, I'm running a 30-day trial of the current version,  but my
client wants to keep running his decades-old software.  He asked me to add
Y2K logic to upgrade all his dates to YYYY, etc.

> I still can't figure out the logic. If you are going to allow the
operator to override the assigned custID, how do you keep from having
two customers with CustID of 6666?

Explained above.  I'll make the screen read-only.  And I'll abandon this
business when I really make my mods to the client system.

Again, thanks for your response.

Responses to John:
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Again,  thanks for your response.

> Don't know why you are doing this code...
Explained above.

> .... you must put a DISPLAY in your code [snip] This will show the
"current" value of 1 whether you've changed it or not.

Understood.  Thanks.  Of course, DISPLAY is the key to my main problem.

> ... if you want the field 1, etc. immediately "written out" [snip; WRITE

Understood.  That's great!

> But realize that the WRITE will mean the creation date @cd will no
longer be blank

Understood.  I'll use the field number instead if I still need this logic

Best wishes to you both,
Richard

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