Re: Menu 5.X/Forms 3.0 , startup Global variables

mcgrathm_at_admin1.tcd.ie wrote:
> I am trying to get an SQL*Menu to do some initialising of global
> variables before entering forms. This must occur on the start-up of the
> menu, or at least before any form is called. There appears
> to be no mechanism for this type of operation in Menus/Forms.
> I tried having a high level menu to call a form in turn called another
> menu, but I hope there might be a more elegant solution.
>

We did that at my last company. If I remember right, it's just a plain old boring menu command. before you call the form, have a line saying
:GLOBAL.VARIABLE_NAME := VALUE; (sorry, I wish i could remember more).

good luck
janet Received on Wed Nov 20 1996 - 00:00:00 CET