Subj : [Mystic] GE, MPL, and USES
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From : Digital Avatar
Date : Fri Sep 27 2019 19:16:13

So here's a fun question: You're trying to design a replacement for
newuserapp.mpx that is configurable with respect to what fields it asks for
(on the idea it might be useful to others and they don't necessarily want to
ask for the same information you do). So you go about listing all the
different fields that might be asked for and what USER variables they
correspond to in MPL ... and then you see it. There's a great big gap where
certain variables appear to be missing. So, for example, there's no variable
exported for the user's HomePhone or DataPhone (corresponding to
ThisUser.HomePhone and ThisUser.DataPhone, respectively). There are other
examples, but I won't boor you with the details. (And no, I don't really care
about anyone's phone number, but I'm just using it as an example and it was
the first I could think of.)

So this leads you to consider some workaround using StuffKeys and MenuCmd to
try to hook the GE command to accept validated data for the fields that
aren't otherwise exported into their own variables in MPL. However, this
raises two obvious questions:

1. Will input to StuffKeys be buffered such that when MenuCMD('GE','foo') is
invoked it will be sitting there waiting to be consumed by the GE handler? I
mean, that is its purpose, right? I'm not misreading the documentation, am I?

2. Does GE even work in this condition? What I mean is -- is GE strictly for
editing an existing user record stored in the database, or does it modify a
temporary record in memory such that it would be suitable for handling
new user applications as in this example?

.........this would be the point where g00r00's presence would be welcome.

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