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From: gls@trac2000.ueci.com (Gary Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Need help w/Informix 4gl forms
Summary: Another way
Message-ID: <985@trac2000.ueci.com>
Date: 14 Feb 91 13:02:35 GMT
References: <1991Feb12.220516.242@investor.pgh.pa.us> <53027@sequent.UUCP>
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Organization: UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA
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In article <53027@sequent.UUCP>, lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton) writes:
> 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.

Another way would be to pass the form name on the command line and
when you enter the program get the argument i.e:
				LET pawnbroker = ARG_VAL(1)
Then prepare a statement like
				LET exec_str = "OPEN FORM pawn_form FROM '", pawnbroker, "'"
				PREPARE prep_form from exec_str
				EXECUTE prep_form
And then you can use form pawn_form as a normal form, as if you opened it
with constants.  Any statement can be made that way.

Good Luck!


Gary.


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