Re: re: putting up a screen over another one

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Message text written by INTERNET:boothm@earth.goddard.edu
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>I just came across another thing I would like to do, seems like it could
>be done, but I can not figure out how.
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>So, what I was thinking is this:  Can a screen be delayed before being put
>up?  Could I in fact invoke the next program, put up the correct screen,
>and then have a window pop up with the five lines of prose from the
>original program?  I am pretty sure it can't be done, but then I've been
>wrong so often about what the AS/400 can do now I decided to ask. -- 
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Booth
Try   either creating or overriding your display file to SHARE(*YES) 
If PGMA writes to the display file and then PGMB is called and it uses
the same display file,  Its like you never left the original program(PGMA).

You can have multilple programs use the same display file and evoke
which ever one is logically correct.   In this case Dynamic calls are probably
better than bound calls because any one particular program may never logically
get
called.

P. S.  This also works great for printer files.   PGMA calls PGMB only in
logically rare 
cases and PGMB prints on the next line of the same report!

John P. Carr   CDP
EdgeTech
5921 Acorn Ridge Ct.  Midlothian VA 23112
Ph 804-739-7689   Fax 804-739-7689     Email 74711.77@compuserve.com

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