CliqIT
User Guide

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Table of Contents

Introduction

  • Using CliqMenu
  • How to Use this Guide
  • Documentation Conventions
  • Before You Start

Chapter 1: Getting Started with CliqIT

  • CliqMenu Components
    • Interactive Screen Builder
    • Menu Compiler
    • Run Time Executive
  • Creating and Editing Menus
  • Menu Format
  • Variables
  • Screen Items
    • Screen Item Results
  • Summary of Commands
  • Database Commands
  • Dialog Commands
  • Document Commands
  • File System Interface Commands
  • Flow Control Commands
  • Input/Output Commands
  • Menu Style Commands
  • Popup Commands
  • Process Management Commands
  • String Manipulation Commands
  • User Interface Commands
  • Variable Commands
  • Miscellaneous Commands
  • Available with the Screen Builder
  • CliqMenu Language Structure
    • do Blocks
    • Order of Execution
  • Creating a Menu with the Text Editor
    • Screen Coordinates
    • Special Characters

Chapter 2:  CliqIT at a Glance

  • Editing Screen
    • Status Lines
  • Function Keys

Chapter 3:  The Screen Builder

  • Screen Item Results
  • Attributes
  • Calendar
  • Choice Field
  • Coordinates
  • Copying
  • Dates
  • Deleting Objects
  • Dialog Boxes
    • Define Dialog
    • BoxFilename
    • Options
    • Listbox
    • Strings Text
    • Yesno
  • Display Text
  • Drawing Lines and Boxes
  • Edit Source
  • Erase
  • Execute a Menu
  • Files
  • Mail Check
  • Marking
  • Moving Around the Menu
  • Moving Objects
  • Open another Menu
  • o/s Command
  • Popup Menu
    • Define Popup
    • Popup Title
    • Insert a Line
    • Popup Options
  • Print a Menu
  • Resize Objects
  • Response Fields
  • Saving a File
  • Sorting
  • Special Characters
  • Update Item
  • View Source

Chapter 4:  CliqIT Command Reference

Chapter 4:  Section 1:

  • Conventions in Syntax Statements
  • Database Commands
  • Document Commands
    • Completion Codes
  • attach-glos
  • attach-macro
  • Attributes
  • auto-declare
  • auto-select
  • background
  • bind-key
  • box
  • break
  • chdir
  • choice
  • clear
  • close
  • Comments
  • copy-file

Chapter 4:  Section 2:

  • cursor
  • date
  • dbclose
  • dbfind
  • dbnext
  • dbopen
  • dbprev
  • dbreorg
  • dbrewrite
  • dbwrite
  • declare
  • define-dialog
  • define-popup
  • dialog
  • display
  • do
  • doc-create
  • doc-format
  • doc-stats
  • doc-update
  • does-file-exist

Chapter 4:  Section 3:

  • echo
  • edit
  • end
  • end-dialog
  • end-popup
  • erase
  • execute
  • extract
  • file-check
  • filename
  • filter
  • find-file
  • f-response
  • gbox
  • get-date
  • if, else-if, else
  • index
  • jump-key
  • let
  • line
  • listbox

Chapter 4:  Section 4:

  • mail-check
  • make-directory
  • make-temp-file
  • match-length
  • menu
  • menu-origin
  • move-file
  • m-response
  • name
  • on-key
  • on-key-cancel
  • on-start
  • open
  • options
  • parse
  • pause
  • pop-option
  • popup
  • position
  • pread
  • process
  • pwd

Chapter 4:  Section 5:

  • read
  • read-profile
  • read-prompts
  • remove-directory
  • remove-file
  • replace
  • response
  • restore-choice
  • return
  • shell
  • sm-exit
  • sm-process
  • string
  • string-chop
  • strip
  • text
  • translate
  • umask
  • while
  • write
  • write-profile
  • yesno

Chapter 5:  CliqIT on the Desk

  • Compile a Menu
    • Errors
  • Create a Menu
  • Edit a Menu
  • Execute a Menu
  • Mail a Menu
  • Print a Menu