Combo/Selection Widget Maintenance Tools
A variety of tools exist that allows one to manipulate lists of information much more easily and with much less code. If you wish to display a foreign key as a combo box or selection list, the templates are structured to make this much easier.
For example, suppose you wanted to insert 'Sales Rep name' as a combo-box in a customer viewer (this requires much more work than just displaying the code). One would normally have to create a local-initialize, local-display-fields and local assign-statement procedures and enter all the required code. With the Vision templates, pre-existing procedures are already in place making this process much easier. In addition, if the user adds a Sales Rep code from another open window, the combo boxes can react to state changes to refresh the combo boxes.
Quick Retrieve of Record
Consists of a retrieve button and certain pre-defined procedures which allow the user to enter all or part of a key(s) and then select the retrieve button to find the record. This eliminates the necessity of calling a lookup browser.
Library of procedures
Consists of a series of procedures that perform various functions. These include the following:
- Window Management: These procedures contains all manner of routines which manipulate, register, and otherwise affect the behavior of windows. Includes registering windows, getting list of all registered windows, setting a non-modal window as modal, setting window on top and setting cursors.
- General Procedures: These procedures perform general functions including converting & validating date formats, converting a value from pixel to character, getting/setting values in temp tables or private data of a widget.
- Temp Table Management: These procedures allow you to set and get information stored in the various temp tables used throughout the system.
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