Processing to run against each highlighted line of a browse lookup

Jose Lerebours fpgroups at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 10:39:21 PDT 2020


On 4/30/20 12:27 PM, James Flanagan via Filepro-list wrote:
> Freebsd 10.3
> Filepro 5.7.00.09D4
>
> I am looking for solution where I can get some processing to run for each highlighted line of a browse lookup, ideally without hitting another keystroke.
>
> Of course, using @SK eq “ENTR”, I can accomplish what I want to do, BUT that requires me to use the arrow key up or down, and then hit enter for each record to run processing on.
>
> What I would like is if the browse lookup would recognize the @SK’s CRUP and CDWN keys (it appears that it does not do so despite not giving any syntax error), and then run processing on the highlighted record for each highlighted bar movement.
>
> Is there a method for moving the highlight in a browse lookup AND running some processing in a single keystroke?  Thank you very much, in advance...
>
BTW, there is the prc=label option you can use - I just do not know if 
this is triggered as the "bar" highlights the record/row on browse.

I know this is commonly used to qualify record and optionally, "drop" it 
off so that it does not show.  I seem to remember including dummy fields 
within the browse definition and filling the dummy field at processing 
routine.  An additional benefit of this is to mimic a JOIN statement and 
show data from multiple tables ... which to me was a common practice 
since I typically use header/detail and prefer a bunch of small tables 
over a huge table with 999 fields.





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