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Document	V2I7A6
Title	Collector Windows
Keywords	COLLECTOR WINDOWS SYMBOLIC @RECORD
Text	The recent QTIP about delimiting a browse list WITH @RMs has prompted extra interest in collector windows and subscribers have been asking what additional features are available FROM collector windows We present below some additional tips relating to advanced collector windows Symbolics in Collectors As collector windows do not have an ASSOCIATED dictionary file they cannot display symbolics To get around this define a field which is protected from amendment and define a user DEFINED conversion for the field that calls the ASSOCIATED Commuter logic (NB the Commuter logic will need to be redefined to expect four VARIABLES as per a normal user DEFINED conversion) Then in the user DEFINED conversion logic insert the "symbolic logic" If you find that this is not recalculating when you need it to put a post prompt on the fields that effect this "pseudo symbolic" that simply sets DISPLAY ACTION to 5 thus ensuring the recalculation of all fields Collector Set Up/Save Codes The standard set up and save codes of 1 2 and 3 are well documented however there are additional possible values for the codes as follows 4 Save When the user presses F9 @FMs and @VMs are converted into spaces in @RECORD which is then performed The screen image is saved off before the perform and redisplayed AFTER the perform has been completed To illustrate set up a simple collector window that prompts for the TCL command and the file to use set the save code to 4 and test run it 5 Save Behaves in a similar manner to 4 but when the perform has completed the system prints a message prompting "Press any key to continue" 6 Save Takes the CURRENT collector window name and puts it onto the front of @SENTENCE before performing it Thus if the collector were called EDIT and the first field were VOC and the second LISTFILES the system would EDIT VOC LISTFILES when the screen was saved 7 Save Behaves in a similar manner to 6 but when the perform has completed the system prints a message prompting "Press any key to continue" Name Save When the name of a catalogued subroutine is put into the code field this routine is called WITH @RECORD loaded into @SENTENCE and the subroutine name placed at the front followed by a space EG if the subroutine called was ATEST and the fields entered had been EDIT and VOC @SENTENCE would contain ATEST EDIT VOC It would appear that of the above OPTIONS only 6 is now used within the AREV Command records (try LIST COMMANDS PSEUDO) (Volume 2 Issue 7 PAGE 8)

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