Feature #6495
add equivalent support for the undocumented -sbhelp command line option
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#2 Updated by Greg Shah almost 2 years ago
It was seen on a command line as -sbhelp something.p.
We don't know what this does, though the name suggests that it allows the overriding of the ChUI help application (instead of the default applhelp.p).
#3 Updated by Greg Shah 3 months ago
- Related to Feature #6493: add equivalent support for the command line parameters -ucc and -utf8intatchar added
#4 Updated by Greg Shah 3 months ago
Customer description of this feature (from the customer for which Progress developed the feature):
The utf8intatchar was supplied by Progress to address an issue with integer fields being displayed in character form fields. It was a bug in some versions of OE10. The probem no longer exists in OE11 and 12. The -ucc parameter and -sbhelp were both added in March 2008 to fix an issue with unicode databases. I highly doubt that we need any support for this
#5 Updated by Greg Shah 3 months ago
- Assignee set to Eugenie Lyzenko
From a senior developer (also at the customer):
The sbhelp is actually pretty important to us. It allows for processing of the Help function keys (F16 to F20 in our case) when a "Press spacebar to continue" prompt is on the screen. Actually any pause. This is used extensively by
<customer_name>.We use the "Help" request to walk the screen widgets and send the current screen as XML up to a web server, which also happens to be running the character screen.
In our system, the user (.Net application on a PC) talks to the Web Server. The Web Server runs a character client. It enters the data sent by the user to the character screen, followed by the appropriate "help" request. The help trigger causes the backend to send XMscreen XML up to the webserver. This XML is then sent back to the client. "pauses" on the back end cause significant delays.