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When an XQUIT is encountered this field is executed. If the XQUIT
disappears then the Menu Sytem proceeds along satisfying the user's
instructions as if nothing happened. If the XQUIT is not killed then the
user will be returned to the previous menu. If XQUIT EXECUTABLE is blank
then the users will be shown a [message] before being sent back to where
they came from. If there is code in this field, however, no message will
be printed on the assumption that the application took care of informing
the user.
Code can be entered in this field by a programmer, but only by using
When the Application (Lab, IFCAP, etc.) defined the variable XQUIT in
the screen-based Option Editor, [OPED]. It is not supported by the
traditional editor XUEDITOPT.
the Entry Action of one of their options, control used to pass to the Menu
System and it would prevent the user from running that option. It makes
more sense, however, for the application to take control so that problem
that caused it to set the XQUIT might be corrected. A new executable
field has therefore been added to the Option File to which control will be
passed. It is called XQUIT EXECUTABLE: ^DIC(19,Option IEN,21).
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