HP Data Entry and Forms Management System (VPLUS) Reference Manual (32209-90024)

Chapter 4 169
Advanced Forms Design
CHANGE
CHANGE
Used to change the specification of either the current form or the next form.
Syntax
[CHANGE NFORM TO {[CLEAR
APPEND
FREEZE APPEND] ["
formname "
fieldname
indexretrieve
$RETURN
$HEAD$END
$REFRESH ]}
CHANGE CFORM TO {NOREPEAT
REPEAT
REPEAT APPEND}]
Parameters
NFORM indicates the next form to be displayed after the current
form at execution time.
CFORM indicates the current form.
CLEAR indicates that the screen is to be cleared when the next
form is displayed.
APPEND indicates that the next form is to be appended to the
current form.
FREEZE APPEND indicates that the current form is kept on the screen when
the next form is appended to it even after the screen is
full, at which point the top next form is rolled off the
screen.
NOREPEAT indicates that the current repeating form is to be stopped.
REPEAT indicates that the current form is to be repeated.
REPEAT APPEND indicates that the current form is to be repeated and
appended to itself.
formname is the name of any existing form in the forms file.
fieldname is the name of a character type field that contains a form
name.
indexretrieve is an item in a list of existing form names. It is specified
as:
index OF "name" [,"name"] ...
where index is an integer, and name is a form name or any