Conference azur::mcc

5687.0. "Application Launching, YAP - Yet Another Problem" by STKHLM::BERGGREN (Nils Berggren EIS/Project dpmt, Sweden DTN 876-8287) Wed Oct 27 1993 09:13

Hi, 

once again there's a problem with Application launching.

The DEF-file looks like

        del_key:*
        menu: telia
           button: test
              mult_select_policy:  PASS_ALL
              binary:              @sys$Login:mcc_appl_test.com
              env_type:            terminal
              argument:            <datafile>
              argument:            <node4.!.name>
              argument:            " *<node4.!.Remarks>* "
        endmenu

and the SYS$LOGIN:MCC_APPL_TEST.COM looks like:

        $ Set NoOn
        $ say := "write sys$output"
        $! check if a data-file is passed
        $ IF F$Extract(0, 12, p1) .EQS. "MCC_LAUNCHED"
        $ THEN  ! type datafile
        $    say "---------- contents of ''p1' -----------------"
        $    Type 'p1
        $    say ""
        $ ELSE  ! write arguments p1-p8
        $    n = 0
        $    p_loop:
        $       n = n+1
        $       IF n .GT. 8 THEN GOTO pause
        $       say " p''n' = ",  p'n
        $       GOTO p_loop
        $ ENDIF
        $!
        $ pause:
        $ Inquire pause "       return to exit"
        $ EXIT

This works fine as long as there's a value defined in the REMARKS-field 
but if the REMARKS-field is empty, I get a value of "3" as the second 
argument...?

Selecting three NODE4 entities and launching the test-application I get the 
following output:

        ---------- contents of MCC_LAUNCHED_131740.DAT -----------------
        
        
        NAME : GNP
        NAME : HNP
        NAME : KNP
        
        REMARKS : 3
        REMARKS : Larm
        REMARKS : LARM = .telia.c.nmsystem, reference .telia.c.ref_gc976
        
                return to exit:
        
        

Looking at the remarks-field from DECmcc on the node GNP I get:

        $ FCL SHOW NODE4 GNP REMARKS
        DECmcc (V1.3.0)
        
        
        Node4 GNP
        AT 27-OCT-1993 13:20:25 References
        
                                        Remarks = -- Attribute Not Available


The behaviour is the same for for all reference-attributes if not set, 
I get a "3" back into my launched application.

It seems to be the same problem regardless of entity-class.

Any ideas?

This is getting quite anoying, I discover a problem in application launching,
I do a workaround which use the remarks-field, and now I can't get that to 
work....


	/Nils

    
    I have made some progress, a datafile is created if you select multiple
    entities, but not if you only select one.
    
    Presumably if we want to pass a datafile with one entitiy we have to
    use the version 1.2 launch capability.