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Function Keys
In addition to the selections displayed on menus, HP ALLBASE/4GL displays
application and system selections on eight function key labels located
along the bottom of the screen.
Each function key label indicates the function available to you if you
press the associated function key.
With HP touchscreens you can select the function key facility directly by
touching the function key label on the screen.
Standard Function Keys
The HP ALLBASE/4GL administrator application has four standard function
keys associated with every screen except the sign-on screen. They are f5
to f8. The actions of these keys are standard throughout HP ALLBASE/4GL
and are not described elsewhere in this manual unless they are
significantly different from those described below.
f5 System Keys Loads the standard function key set that enables
you to access a number of system and terminal utilities. Refer
to System Keys Function Key Set below.
f6 Activate Item (menus) Confirms your menu selection and executes
the selected item.
or
f6 Commit Data (data screens) Confirms your data entry and
terminates processing of the current screen.
f7 Help Displays the help screen associated with the current
screen or field.
f8 Previous Menu Returns you to the last menu displayed by the
system. This menu may not necessarily be the previous menu in
terms of the HP ALLBASE/4GL menu hierarchy. The previous menu
function key returns you to the menu you accessed the current
screen from. If you selected the current screen by using
function keys or the menu bypass, you may not be returned to the
next higher menu in the hierarchy.
System Keys Function Key Set
By pressing the System Keys function key on any HP ALLBASE/4GL screen,
you can display four sets of function keys. These are the system keys
function key set, the name recall keys function key set, and two more
keys function key sets.
Pressing the System Keys function key on an administrator screen loads
the following set of function keys:
f1 Main Menu Returns you to the administrator main menu.
f2 Name Recall loads a set of function keys that let you scroll
through the item names that have been defined for an active
field.
f3 Clear Screen Clears all fields on the current screen.
f4 Refresh Screen Repaints the current screen image, including the
contents of all fields.
f5 Previous Keys Reloads the standard set of function keys for the
screen.
f6 More Keys Loads the second set of system keys. Refer to More
Keys Function Key Set below.
f7 Help Displays the help screen associated with the current
screen or field.
f8 Previous Menu Returns you to the last menu displayed by the
system.
Name Recall Function Key Set
These keys enable a context-sensitive name recall function. If the
active field on a screen has a defined field type and item names
associated with the field, the developer can use this set of function
keys to recall the item names one at a time in the active field, to
complete partially entered item names, or to access a catalog display
screen that lists all of the names for a type or all the available types.
f1 First Item lets you return to the first item in the group.
f2 Previous Item lets you return to the previous item in the group.
f3 Next Item lets you see the next item in the group.
f5 Previous Type changes the display to the previous item type.
f6 Next Type changes the display to the next item type.
f7 Help displays the help screen for this screen.
f8 Restore Field restores the original field display.
More Keys Function Key Set
If you have pressed the System Keys function key to load the system
keys function key set, then pressing the More Keys function key loads
the following function key set:
f2 Screen Printing displays the screen printing keys, allowing you
to print an image of the current screen on the system printer or
on a slave printer attached to your HP terminal.
f2 Op. System Temporarily suspends HP ALLBASE/4GL processing and
runs the MPE/iX command interpreter. When you exit from the
command interpreter program, HP ALLBASE/4GL processing resumes at
the point where you suspended it.
f3 ISQL Suspends HP ALLBASE/4GL and invokes HP ISQL.
f4 ALLBASE QUERY If HP ALLBASE/QUERY is installed on the system,
pressing this key temporarily suspends execution of HP
ALLBASE/4GL and starts HP ALLBASE/QUERY. HP ALLBASE/QUERY
automatically connects to the current application's database.
When you exit from HP ALLBASE/QUERY, you are returned to HP
ALLBASE/4GL.
If the current application has an open HP ALLBASE/SQL transaction
when you press this function key, HP ALLBASE/4GL displays a
warning message, allowing you to complete or reverse the
transaction before starting HP ALLBASE/QUERY.
f5 Previous Keys Reloads the previous function key set.
f6 Catalog Display Displays the catolog display screen for the
application currently being viewed.
f7 Help Displays the help screen associated with the current
screen or field.
f8 Exit Terminates the current HP ALLBASE/4GL session.