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From: fin@norge.unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth)
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Subject: HP-48SX MENUS and WAIT
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Date: 27 Jun 90 14:59:46 GMT
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In article <31210033@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM> scottb@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (Scott_Burke) writes:

	It IS possible to display a menu without halting or terminating a
	program with a HALT or KILL statement.

	It is done by creating a menu list of 6 objects and then using the
	TMENU or MENU command.  This prepares the list for display.

	The next step is presumable an input loop, waiting for key presses.
	This is done with a -1 WAIT statement, which WILL display the menu
	while it waits for a keypress.  Note that 0 WAIT performs the
	identical function but does NOT display the menu.

I found this in the manual and spent hours trying to get it to work.
It appears that the displayed menus are not updated until after the
program exits back to command level.  Could you post your working
code?  Please??

	Note also that the WAIT statement traps ALL key presses except ATTN.
	if ATTN is pressed, and the LASTARGS flag is clear, 0 or -1 will be
	...

Good.  We were trying to figure out how to do this.

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