Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!pan!jw
From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Informix 4gl - help in construct statements
Message-ID: <407@pan.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 13:32:09 GMT
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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Is there really no way to allow a user to request help while in a construct
statement in an Informix 4gl program?  This seems far too obvious to really
be missing, so I am assuming that I just haven't discovered how to do it
yet.  The "menu" and "prompt" statements have obvious help syntax, and with
the combination of "on key/infield/showhelp" it is fairly easy to put help
in the various types of input statements and even "display array" statements.
Surely there must be a way to bring up a help screen on demand when doing
something as potentially complex as constructing a select statement.

jw