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From: paul@csnz.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Screen handling in C for Informix
Message-ID: <109@csnz.co.nz>
Date: 30 Aug 89 20:44:16 GMT
Reply-To: paul@csnz.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Organization: Computer Sciences of NZ Limited
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Hi folk,
We're doing quite a bit of work with Informix SQL and ESQL-C.  I find
that's quite a nice envronment to work in, except for one thing.
We're using PERFORM (tm) to provide the end-user the ability to
update the data.  The problem is, given an SQL or ESQL-C query that
retrieves n rows, how can we present just that set of data for
updates to PERFORM?  Ideally we'd like to be able to kick up
a PERFORM task with the data already showing on the fields.
Any idea?

ALternatively, has anyone written routines in C to use the ESQL-C
calls to provide a screen-form approach to allow similar
functionality?  If so, please can you tell us where we can 
obtain this code.  If it doesn't exist, we may have to write
it -- in which case, does anyone else want it?

Using PERFORM is a minor pain since you can't easily change its
commands, e.g. we've embedded it into our application, which uses
function key F1 for Help just about everywhere -- except PERFORM!

echo "thanks" >/dev/advance

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