Post help please!!!!

[Tinhman]

Good morning guys,

I would like to set up my post to include " programmer ID number in the pheader"

For example

1= Steve

2= Henry

.......

......

 

So when he/she wants to post a program , they have to answer a prompt question such as:"ID number Please"

 

Thanks in advance

[Mr. Wizzard]

Prompt the user for

information during posting

 

First, declare a user prompt function to display a prompt on the Mastercam screen.

In the Definition section of your post, enter a user prompt function.

For example:

fq 1 omitseq$ Enter 1 to omit sequences, 0 to use sequences

Then, call the question by inserting q with the fq definition number

(for example,q1) on a separate postline in the postblock where you want to prompt the user. pq

would be a logical postblock for this user prompt function call.

 

This is straight from the MP Post documentation. Give it a shot.

[Guest]

Define the question and a string variable in the start of file

 

fq 1 programmer "ID Number"
sprogrammer    :  ""

 

Place q1 in the pheader section

 

sopen_prn, *progno$, " REV. N/C", sclose_prn, e$
     #sopen_prn, "PROGRAM NAME - ", sprogname$, sclose_prn, e$
     #sopen_prn, "DATE=DD-MM-YY - ", date$, " TIME=HH:MM - ", time$, sclose_prn, e$ #Date and time output Ex. 12-02-05 15:52
     #sopen_prn, "DATE - ", month$, "-", day$, "-", year$, sclose_prn, e$  #Date output as month,day,year - Ex. 02-12-05
     #sopen_prn, "DATE - ", *smonth, " ", day$, " ", *year2, sclose_prn, e$ #Date output as month,day,year - Ex. Feb. 12 2005
     #sopen_prn, "TIME - ", time$, sclose_prn, e$  #24 hour time output - Ex. 15:52
     #sopen_prn, "TIME - ", ptime sclose_prn, e$  #12 hour time output 3:52 PM
     soprev = sblank
     q1
     if programmer = 1, sprogrammer = Tom
     if programmer = 2, sprogrammer = Dick
     if programmer = 3, sprogrammer = Harry
     sopen_prn, "Programmed By", sprogrammer, sclose_prn, e$

[Mr. Wizzard]

Much better than my lame help. Nice work, JP

[Tinhman]

Thanks guys.

[Tinhman]

There is One more thing Sir.

How about " No ID No post"

[Guest]

You'd have to create error message, there should be an error message section i the post for that

add something like this

 

snoprogid "NO PROGRAMMER ID ENTERED, EXITING POST"

 

 

Then in the pheader section,

 

if programmer = 1, sprogrammer = Tom

if programmer = 2, sprogrammer = Dick

if programmer = 3, sprogrammer = Harry

if programmer < 1 | programmer > 3, result = mprint(snoprogid,1), exitpost$

 

That should work

[André Lapointe@In-House Soluti]

What you can do also is create a while condition in the pheader section that would keep asking the question as long as they don't enter a valid answer.

something like this:

while (programmer < 1 | programmer > 3),  #while the answer to the question is smaller than 1 or bigger than 3 it repeats the questions
 [
 q1
 ]

 

HTH

[Tinhman]

Thank you Sir.

[KRESIMIR]

lic : 0
:
:
:
licenca 
     if sim_no$ = xxxxxx, lic = 1, s_user = "Steve", e$
     if sim_no$ = xxxxx, lic = 1, s_user = "Henry", e$
     if sim_no$ = xxxxxx, lic = 1, s_user = "John", e$
:
:
if lic = 0 , exitpost$, e$


pheader$         #Call before start of file 
     licenca
     sopen_prn, "Programer: ", s_user, sclose_prn, e$  #File Descriptor

[Guest]

That would be neat for separate sims but for a Nethasp, it wouldn't work.

[André Lapointe@In-House Soluti]

What's interesting with the numerical question prompts is that the default value showed into the prompt is the value the variable has been assigned to:

So if you have 3 programmers working off their local computer, you can put the programmer variable initialized to the number 1, 2 or 3 and have it set localy for each user. This way when the question comes up, they would just need to press enter to confirm, but they still would be able to change on the spot the value if they are not currently working on their own computer.

programmer : 1   #1=John,  2= Henry,  3=Mark

 

HTH