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Dibakar · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 8:17 am Post subject: Find if opened in View or Edit

Hi,

Is there any edit macro command, or some REXX command, to find if the file is opened in view or edit mode.

Diba

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 9:37 am Post subject:

Here is my way of doing this:

semigeezer · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 9:39 am Post subject:

There is an edit macro command that will tell you called SESSION.

Dibakar · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 9:53 am Post subject:

Thanks Offer and semigezer.

CaptBill · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 1:14 pm Post subject:

When I get into browse I see this:

semigeezer · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 4:42 pm Post subject:

The problem is writing a macro that is aware of the EDIT or VIEW state so the macro can know ahead of time if the data can be saved. It's a fairly common question, actually.

CaptBill · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject:

I'm not expert with edit macros but it looks to me like the panel displayed for Browse is ISRBROBA. The panel displayed for Edit and View is ISREDDE2. It also looks like the Z variable ZVMODET is set to VIEW when the View option is in effect.

Can you try using the PANELID and Z variable to detect what is going on?

Matter of fact, I don't think you can run an edit macro in browse.

semigeezer · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:40 pm Post subject:

Not browse, but VIEW which is basically edit without the ENQ. You can't depend on the panel name because there can be user defined edit panels as well as ISREDDE2 through 5, FLMEDDE2 through 5, and a few others. ISREDIT SESSION is the intended interface for this.