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echo: foxpro
to: RANDALL BOSMA
from: CY WELCH
date: 1996-11-26 14:13:00
subject: Setting up help in FPD

Hello Randall!
Saturday November 23 1996 19:41, Randall Bosma wrote to Cy Welch:
 RB> call it \ with the topic set right.  Since we wrote for our software a
 RB> table driven \ routine to report exactly where a user was when they
 RB> involke (sp) a \ feedback screen, I use a slight modification that
 RB> uses that routine IF the \ current screen does NOT have title.  It
 RB> allows me to handle it without \ having to make sure I put a line of
 RB> code each and every screen.
 RB> FWIW, it's spelled invoke.  :-)
 RB> This routine you speak of, does it have any advantage over using
 RB> SET TOPIC TO "xxxx"
 RB> as you proceed to each section of the application?
In a way.  It basically means I don't have to remember to put that into each 
screen as I go.  The routine figures out where I am, and calls the right 
screen for that area.
 RB> CW\ ... Human Error - It's all ***YOUR*** fault.
 RB> Yea, I've been told that more than once.  ;-)>
So have I.  Like every time the customer does something wrong (if I let them, 
its my fault that I did, and if I don't, then its my fault that they can't do 
the wrong thing they want to do). 
 RB>  * SLMR 2.1a * Ignore your health long enough, and it WILL go away.
Thats something us programmers have to pay some real attention to.
Cy
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