Those not interested in VPlus need read no furher. Please excuse the bandwith. They are late, I know but here are the minutes, somewhat rough, of the SIG UI/VPlus meeting at IPROF. If you are going to HPWORLD and are interested, come to the SIG UI/VPlus meeting on Wednesday at 8:00 AM in room C3. Rooms change, so check the location when you get there. SIG UIF-VPLUS IPROF '96 Approximately 30 attendees, 10 from HP After about 10 years of no apparent work on VPlus by HP, 2/3 of the top 15 requested enhancements of the last 2 years are released or in beta test. Intro. Go Round Newface Enhancements Future of VPlus - Reason to continue using. Information New features and Functionality Date handling DEL Tips Enhancements: Scrollable Pick Lists 16 Function Keys Expand maximum. Fields in form to 128 Allow interactive renumber of fields Default the terminal type to 700/9x Support terminals with greater than 132 charters per row Perform arithmetic on Date fields Major problems: VPlus manual has not been updated for many years, all enhancements are described only in various Communicators. There is a universal need for updated manuals. Batch Formspec commands are documented only in Communicators. Hi LI intrinsocs (currently in a separate manual) consume less overhead then calling the VPlus intrinsics, although HI LO is still CM, the VPlus intrinsics are in both M and NM. HP Up Date Kumar from HP Bangalore did presentation: What is in 5.5/Beta - see Communicator 5.5 Communicator contains VPlus documentation VBlock write/Read - Documented in migration manual Vturnoff/on - Documented in migration manual Gary Briggs presented VPlus techniques he has developed ESCEX event code Ken Sletten - Pop Up Windows/Scroll Lists Fread/FWrite Must refresh after use Need updated manual for VPLUS and HI LI, CD ROM or Read Me File. 5 third party products for making VPlus look or work more or less like windows. Nick Demos [log in to unmask]