Client Access Hotspots

October 11, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Hey, Ted:

I want to display a calendar if a user clicks on a date on the first line of a display. The date field is a ten-character output field in mm/dd/yyyy format.

If I click on the year or a forward slash (/), the program works correctly. However, if I double-click on the month or date portion, the program goes crazy. Double-clicking on a date of 03, for example, shuts down the program. Double-clicking on a month of 10 locks the keyboard.

Any ideas you have that will help solve my problem will be greatly appreciated.

— Bill

I have to thank Holley Davis of www.ProgrammerInaBox.com for teaching me this one.

Here’s your problem: You have enabled hotspots in Client Access. A hotspot is an area on the display where you can click the left mouse button to carry out some action, such as simulating the press of a command key. In your case, double-clicking on the 03 in the date activates the 03 indicator, which you are using to shut down the program. Double-clicking on the 10 locks the keyboard, because you did not enable indicator 10 in your display file.

How to disable hotspots depends on your version of Client Access (CA). On some versions of CA, the Hotspots option is under the Assist menu. Other versions require you to pull down the Edit menu and select Preferences. Once you have opened the Hotspots Setup window, de-select the nn option in the Point-and-Select Hotspots frame.

For the benefit of anyone who wants to better understand this feature, I am including Bill’s DDS and a short RPG program to drive it. I suggest you compile this program with the Create Bound RPG Program (CRTBNDRPG) command, specifying DBGVIEW(*LIST). Then run this program under debug to see how clicking on a hotspot can affect a program.

— Ted

 * display file cisne01d
 *
 * CRTDSPF FILE(xxx/CISNE01D) +
 *    SRCFILE(xxx/QDDSSRC) +
 *    SRCMBR(CISNE01D)
 *
A                                      DSPSIZ(24 80 *DS3)         
A                                      MSGLOC(23)                 
A                                      PRINT                      
A          R SCREEN01                                             
A                                      CA03(03 'EXIT')            
A                                      CF04(04 'PROMPT')          
A                                      CA06(06 'UPD PF')          
A                                      MOUBTN(*ULD ENTER)         
A                                      RTNCSRLOC(&ORF### &CSRFLD) 
A            ORF###        10A  H                                 
A            CSRFLD        10A  H                                 
A            ROW            3S 0H                                 
A            COL            3S 0H                                 
A                                  1 22' R E Q U E S T    -       
A                                       C A N C E L '             
A                                      COLOR(BLU)                 
A                                  1  3'DATE:'   
A            WSDATE        10A  O  1 10COLOR(BLU)

 * Program cisne01r
 *
 * CRTBNDRPG PGM(xxx/CISNE01R) +
 *    SRCFILE(xxx/SRC) +
 *    SRCMBR(CISNE01R) +
 *    DBGVIEW(*LIST)
 *
Fcisne01d  cf   e             workstn               
C                   eval      wsdate = '10/03/2002' 
C                   dou       *in03                 
C                   exfmt     screen01              
C                   enddo                           
C                   eval      *inlr = *on           

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