To ensure that your documentation is as up to date as possible we continue our occasional series intended to bring previous REVMEDIA articles into line with release 2.1 of AREV. My thanks to all subscribers who have helped by notifying me of bugs or discrepancies.
Page 5 V19 - MAKEFILE is now the DEFINEFILE processor. Remember the
FIELDS= syntax added with release 2.0 (See I3.17 System Reference).
Page 5 V24 - LIST VOLUMES FILES should be replaced with LIST VOLUMES
FILE.LIST. (Try LOOKDICT VOLUMES). Note also that the symbolic
dictionary item FILE.TYPE in the VOLUMES file contains useful
online documentation in the use of the system function
GET.FILING.SYSTEM.NAME.
Page 6 V25 - It would seem that the only modifiers working in 2.1 are
(A To include "System" files
(N To omit the sort
(P To output to printer
Note that the old forms of LISTFILEs are no longer left on the TCL
stack so it is no longer instructive to examine the stack to see
how options are implemented.
Page 6 V27 - Note that the full calling syntax for DICTCOMPILE is
DICTCOMPILE dict filename keys
If a select list is active keys may be omitted. To recompile all
dictionary items in a file use a * in place of keys.
Page 6 V28 - In addition to (S, DELETEFILE also supports (E and (L as per
RECORDCOPY.
Page 6 V29 - (N (for suppress page logic) is supported. Note that BLIST
can be used on symbolic dictionary items, eg BLIST DICT FILES
FILE.TYPE.
Page 3 DEPEND.UPDATE - there have been reports from the field that this is
unreliable in release 2.1.
Page 5 V45 - Note that LOOKDICT will ignore dictionary items beginning
with % or not having TYPE F S or G. Note further that the output of
LOOKDICT may be modified by customising the SYS.POPUPS record
LISTDICT.
Page 5 V47 - Has been removed.
Page 5 V53 - Has been removed
Page 6 V61 - The output of LISTMEDIA may be modified by customising the
SYS.POPUPS record LISTVOL.
Page 6 V76 - !files are now automatically attached if required for Qfile
operations.
Page 7 V77 - (A for display record keys deleted is supported as per
RECORDCOPY.
Page 7 V87 - Used by CAPTURE.SUB when capturing screen images using the
extended Alt-8, Alt-F8 functionality for screen grabbing documented
in Technical Bulletin #54 by Alan Humphrey.
Page 10 MESSAGE - two extra parameters have been added, so that the calling
syntax is now
MESSAGE(X,Y,MSG,ATTR,ACTION,IMAGE,PARAMS,WIDTH)
NB MSG can now be a message ID in the message file. If this is the
case, PARAMS will be used to fill in %1% etc as with a normal MSG
call. WIDTH is used to specify a maximum width for a message.
Page 10 DEFAULT - note that to use DEFAULT the program declaring default
must be a routine including WINDOW_COMMON%. Further, additional
parameters may need to be loaded. EG for %SK% to work both @DICT
and WC_SRC_FILE% must be loaded correctly.
Page 4 Context sensitive help. <@POS> now also works for T type popups. In
addition <@ROW> returns the current row number within the popup.
Page 4 In place of a list of keys, a select statement may be put into
field 4 of a popup. This is then executed as a select before the
popup is displayed. For maximum effect this command should be used
in conjunction with the NORESOLVE keyword.
Page 4 Dave Mills of the NCC points out "If you pre-tag selections on an
ordered popup (MULTIPLE = "O"), the selected popup choices will be
highlighted, but the order column will not be filled in. If you
subsequently delete a popup choice, or select an additional one,
the order column will then be recalculated and displayed.".
Page 5 V92 - Used by PUTCONFIGURE routine to update the system
configuration details.
Page 5 V93 - Used to install optional modules.
Page 5 V94 - Used to prompt for modules to delete
Page 5 V95 - Used to delete optional module
Page 5 V116 - Note that if the file is being redefined onto another
volume, the source file will not be automatically deleted. For this
reason the standard command line modifiers (D) (Delete source after
redefine), (N) (New file inhibit) and O (Overwrite) can be used.
Page 5 V117 - (L) locks the file and prevents other users modifying
records in the file when it is being dumped, if coordinated locking
is used.
Page 11 As highlighted by Mike Pope below, @STAT.REC can no longer be used
to ascertain whether a window is currently active. RevTI are
currently considering adding a flag to help the developer to check
this, but in the meantime developers needing this functionality can
download a routine from Compuserve provided by Pat McNerthney of
Icicle Software which returns the number of common variables
active. If there are 135, then WINDOW_COMMON% has been declared and
a window must be active.
Page 4 Due to a rationalisation of the way in which WC_RESET% works in 2.1
(see a future REVMEDIA article), WC_RESET% may now be set to any
value between 2 and 5 to force redisplay of the loaded AMVs.
(Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 4-6)
