As a Q&A user/developer, one of my most essential tools is a macro that, from ANY place on Q&A's standard (or single-layer custom) menus, saves any open form or Write document and returns to the Main Menu, the place from which all other macros run.  I never had to develop this to do things like saving specs under construction or setting Global Options because my applications and operators all used the same settings - but it could  be done.  No need to say I need such a routine in Sesame already!

Before I bust a gut re-inventing the wheel, has anyone tackled this one?

While I'm at it, here's another query.  Another of my necessary tools is the batch file that launches my Q&A with an auto-run macro.  I have macros that  'pick up' information from Write documents used as Help screens within the macro, and write this back to the current macro file, save it and exit Q&A, reloading with the modified macro file active, and perhaps a different macro running (the batch file contains many different start switches).  The modified file can now run macros containing the 'picked-up' information.  For instance, using this technique one can insert a retrieve spec phrase automatically into multiple  fields in a database to perform complicated Mass Updates achieving something very like the Sesame 'Result Set' behaviour.  One can also generate Reports from sub-sets within a database that are automatically retrieved and titled.

Does THIS have a Sesame equivalent?

Shalom

John Freeman

Hi Team!

Thanks for causing enough perplexity for me to decide to download the new manuals (not available in South Africa in hard copy yet).  I had, of course, never heard of SetDefaultTab.  If all is not yet perfectly clear, it soon will be!

Shalom

John Freeman 

PS Why won't my download manager work with your downloads?