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Customized Sign On [ HP ALLBASE/4GL Developer Reference Manual Vol. 1 ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


HP ALLBASE/4GL Developer Reference Manual Vol. 1

Customized Sign On 

You can display a customized logo window when an HP ALLBASE/4GL
application is run with the -l command line option.

The -l option takes two arguments:  logo_screen and logo_application.
The argument logo_screen is the name of the window that you want to
display on the sign on screen.  The argument logo_application is the name
of the HP ALLBASE/4GL application in which logo_screen is defined.  If
logo_application is specified you must precede it with a colon (:).

If the -a and -u options are used on the same command line, the -l option
and its arguments are ignored when HP ALLBASE/4GL starts up.  However,
the -l option is processed when you return to the sign on screen from
within the developer application or the end user application.

The screen logo_screen must be a window.  If it is a menu or a data
screen, HP ALLBASE/4GL ignores it and displays the standard HP
ALLBASE/4GL logo screen.  Use the HP ALLBASE/4GL screen painter to create
the window.  The screen cannot contain any data input or display fields,
and the only valid system items for this window are the *DATE and *TIME
communication area fields.  Only lines 1 through 21 are displayed on the
screen.  The top line of the window is displayed as the second line of
the sign on screen (the Hewlett-Packard copyright notice and product part
number occupy the top line).  If the custom window extends beyond line
14, HP ALLBASE/4GL may overwrite parts of the window when it displays the
user name/password and application name/password fields.

HP ALLBASE/4GL searches for logo_screen in the application
logo_application.  If logo_screen does not exist in logo_application, HP
ALLBASE/4GL searches in the application HPlogo for logo_screen.

If logo_screen is not found in either of these applications, HP
ALLBASE/4GL searches for a window named logo in logo_application, and
then in the application HPlogo.

If you omit logo_screen from the command line, HP ALLBASE/4GL searches
for a window named logo.  If you omit application_name from the command
line, HP ALLBASE/4GL only searches in the HPlogo application.  If you use
the -l option with no arguments, HP ALLBASE/4GL searches for a window
named logo in the HPlogo application.  If you do not specify the -l 
option at all, HP ALLBASE/4GL uses the standard sign on window.



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