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From: bwm@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bruce Miller #307)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Need help w/Informix 4gl forms
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.220516.242@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 12 Feb 91 22:05:16 GMT
Reply-To: bwm@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bruce Miller #307)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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I am working with Informix 4gl v.1.10.00 and need some help with screen
forms.  What I would like to do is to call a screen form using a program
variable rather than calling the form directly.

I have a table with information on an individual and his stock broker (my
clients may be using any one of 40+ different brokers) and in the program
I call up a form that looks like the brokers confirm to make it easy for a
novice to get the required data (i.e. trade date not settlement date etc..).

What I would like to be able to do is:

	open form ml from "pr_ar.broker"
	options input wrap
	display form ml

where pr_ar.broker is a character variable that equals ML for example, and
I have a compiled form called ML.frm.  However, as is obvious the program is
looking for pr_ar.broker not the value to which pr_ar.broker is set equal.

I have tried using "$pr_ar.broker", and a few other things but to no avail.
Looking at the c-code generated hasn't been much help (but then again I
haven't much C programming background - except for reading a few texts)

Any Help/Ideas would be appreciated!
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