Completing the Department Application › Completing Dialog XXXDUPD Using ADSC › Step 5: Add Premap and Response Processes

Step 5: Add Premap and Response Processes

You use the ADSC Process Modules screen to associate premap and response processes with a dialog

Earlier in this chapter, you defined a premap process, XXXDUPD-PREMAP, and two response processes for dialog XXXDUPD: XXXDUPD-ENTER and XXXDUPD-PA2.

The premap process will execute before the map is displayed to the end user.

When the end user presses a control key to input data on the dialog's map, one and only one of the response processes can be executed. To make it easy for the end user to select the appropriate response process, you will associate each response process with its own control key.

As an application developer, you associate control keys with response processes when you add the processes to the dialog:

• When you add XXXDUPD-ENTER, you will specify that this response process is invoked when the end user presses the [Enter] key.
• When you add XXXDUPD-PA2, you will specify that this response process is invoked when the end user presses [PA2]:

You access the Process Modules screen by entering 5 at the Screen prompt on the Main Menu and pressing [Enter].

Process Modules Screen

The Process Modules screen is displayed. You type the name of the process module after the Name prompt:

                              Process Modules               Page    1  of     1
                                                                     More
                         Dialog  XXXDADD   Version     1

  Name    xxxdupd-premap__________________                  2  Type
  Version ____                                              _  Execute on errors
  Key     _____   Value  ________________________________   _  Drop

  Name    xxxdupd-enter___________________                  3  Type
  Version ____                                              _  Execute on errors
  Key     enter   Value  ________________________________   _  Drop

  Name    xxxdupd-pa2_____________________                  3  Type
  Version ____                                              _  Execute on errors
  Key     pa2__   Value  ________________________________   _  Drop

  Name    ________________________________                  _  Type
  Version ____                                              _  Execute on errors
  Key     _____   Value  ________________________________   _  Drop

 * Type : 1=Declaration,2=Premap,3=Response,4=Default Response


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[Enter]

When you press [Enter], ADSC compiles the process module source code and adds the compiled representation of each module to the dialog if there are no errors. ADSC redisplays the Process Modules screen with a message:

• PROCESS HAS COMPILED SUCCESSFULLY is displayed when the compiled process module was successfully added to the dialog as a premap process.
• TO SEE ERRORS SELECT DISPLAY OR PRINT is displayed when ADSC cannot successfully compile the process module because of errors.

  In this case, you display and correct errors in the process module, as discussed in Correct Errors in Process Modules.

After the process modules have compiled successfully, you can recompile the dialog.