SeeView Manual

HP NonStop SeeView Manual—526355-004

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8 SeeView Directives

This section describes the SeeView interpreter directives ?MENU, ?PROCEDURE,

?SECTION, and ?SEEVIEW and explains how each functions in a SeeView script.

PROC is an abbreviation for PROCEDURE, and SECT is an abbreviation for

SECTION.

When a keyword is prefixed by a question mark in the first character position of a line

in a SeeView program, the combination of keyword and question mark is called an

interpreter directive. Interpreter directives provide structural information to the SeeView

program about the text following them.

The ?MENU directive declares a menu taskid name and the contents of the cache

memory associated with that name. Each line of text following the directive is stored in

the cache defined by taskid.

The WINDOW statement displays the cache contents in windows or menus. When you

declare a window as a menu:

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Each line of cache containing the production symbol (<==) represents a menu item

that you can invoke by pressing Return. For example:

Viewsys <== run viewsys

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The prompt production symbol (<==?) represents a menu item that you can invoke

and have data passed through an input field defined on the left side of the

production symbol. For example:

Enter \system: [ ] <==? #system := #menuinput

To invoke a production, place the cursor on that production’s line in a menu and press

Return.

The text on the left side of the production symbol is the text that you see in the menu

window. On the right side of the production is a set of statements that the SeeView

interpreter executes.

The TASK statement syntax portion of the ?MENU directive enables you to specify

menu options. These options include TASK statement options. Common TASK

statement options that you might want to use with the ?MENU directive include the

CACHEPAGES and SORTED. For detailed descriptions, see the TASK statement in

Section 9, SeeView Statements and Script Symbols.

Example 8-1 on page 8-2 shows how to use the MENU directive.

?MENU taskid [ TASK statement syntax ]