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From: lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Need help w/Informix 4gl forms
Message-ID: <53027@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 18:13:07 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.220516.242@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Reply-To: lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton)
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Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <1991Feb12.220516.242@investor.pgh.pa.us> bwm@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bruce Miller #307) writes:
>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!
>--
>Bruce W. Miller		(bwm@investor.pgh.pa.usa)
>(412) 471-5320 work
>(412) 731-4946 home

Create a function to open form, I assume that you are storing some
value in the parent row that will point you to the proper form in
some fashion?

in the open form function build a case on the field used to flag
the desired form,,, Ie: WHEN pawnbroker = "joe" THEN 
			    OPEN FORM "X" FROM "/PATH/formname"
			WHEN pawnbroker = "bill" THEN
			    OPEN FORM "Y" FROM "/PATH/formname"

The sad thing here is that you will have a case to maintain, but
it will do what you ask.