SheerPower^® 4GL
A Guide to the SheerPower Language

4
4GL - What is it?
A
ABBREVIATIONS in SPDEV
ABS function
ACCESS - field definition item
ACCESS INPUT
ACCESS option in OPEN #chnl_num
ACCESS options in OPEN STRUCTURE
ACCESS OUTIN
Access Rules in SETUP
Accessing ODBC with SheerPower
Accessing Password Protected ODBC Databases
ACOS function
ADD STRUCTURE/END ADD
Add structure record
cancel add
exit add
ADDRESS tag
ADVANCED menu item in SPDEV
Advanced Record System
All Keystrokes
Alt Keystrokes
Ambiguous constant
Ampersand in line continuation
Anchor tag
ANGLE function
Append data to a file with outin
APPEND option in EXTRACT STRUCTURE
Application Example
APPLICATION - field definition item
AREA option in INPUT
AREA option of CLEAR statement
Arithmetic operators
Array
defining
description
DIM statement
dimension
elements
low bound
OPTION BASE statement
REDIM statement
subscript
ARS #1
ARS #2
ARS interface
@ as a logical
ASCII character set #1
ASCII character set #2
ASCII function
ASIN function
ASK #chnl_num options
CURRENT
MARGIN
NAME
ZONEWIDTH
ASK #chnl_num statement
ASK ERRORS statement
ASK KEYSTROKES statement
ASK MARGIN statement
ASK PAGESIZE statement
ASK RESPONSES statement
ASK/SET SEED statement
ASK STRUCTURE: ACCESS
ASK STRUCTURE: CAPABILITY
ASK STRUCTURE: CURRENT
ASK STRUCTURE: DATAFILE
ASK STRUCTURE: ENGINE
ASK STRUCTURE: EXTRACTED
ASK STRUCTURE FIELD: item
ACCESS
APPLICATION
ATTRIBUTES
CHANGEABLE
DATATYPE
DESCRIPTION
field expressions
HEADING
HELP
KEYED
LENGTH
NAME
NULL
NUMBER
OPTIMIZED
POSITION
PRINTMASK
PROMPT
SCREENMASK
VRULES
ASK STRUCTURE: FIELDS
ASK STRUCTURE: ID #1
ASK STRUCTURE: ID #2
ASK STRUCTURE: KEYS
ASK STRUCTURE options
ASK STRUCTURE: POINTER
ASK STRUCTURE: RECORDSIZE
ASK STRUCTURE #string_expr...
ASK SYSTEM: COMMENT statement
ASK SYSTEM: DIRECTORY statement #1
ASK SYSTEM: DIRECTORY statement #2
ASK SYSTEM, LOGICAL: VALUE statement
ASK SYSTEM: MODE statement
ASK SYSTEM: PARAMETER statement
ASK SYSTEM: PROCESS statement
ASK SYSTEM: PROGRAM statement
ASK SYSTEM: RIGHTS statement
ASK SYSTEM, SYMBOL 'DNS:XXX' FOR DNS LOOKUPS
ASK SYSTEM, SYMBOL: VALUE statement
ASK SYSTEM: USER statement
ASK WINDOW AREA statement
ASK WINDOW: COLUMN statement
ASK WINDOW: CURRENT statement
ASK WINDOW: DATA statement
ASK WINDOW: KEYMAP statement
ASK WINDOW: ROW statement
ASK WINDOW: TYPEAHEAD statement
ASK ZONEWIDTH statement
Assigning Byte Values to Keystrokes
Assigning variables
AT row, column in PRINT statement
%AT row, column menu directive
AT row, column option in INPUT
ATN function
Attached attribute - input dialogbox SheerPower tag
%ATTACHED menu directive
ATTRIBUTES - field definition item
ATTRIBUTES option in INPUT
Autoscale attribute - SheerPower tag
Autosubmit attribute - SheerPower tag