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- From: DEVRIES@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU (Ernie DeVries)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Listing .VAL and SET files HOW?
- Message-ID: <01GOB1CS55QQ0009KU@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 18:02:09 GMT
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- Paralex by Kallista is a commercial product that does this quite well.
-
- If you want to create your own, the basic script outline is:
-
- 1) Create an array to hold the values you'll be getting
- 2) Enter "Edit" mode in the table you want
- 3) use {menu} {ValCheck} {Define} Enter to get into ValChecks for the
- current field, then choose the type of val check that you want.
- 4) Store its current value in the array using array[1]=menuchoice().
- 5) Use the Esc command as many times as necessary to backup to step 3,
- then repeat for the next val check option.
- 6) When you get them all, move to the table image where you want to
- store the values and use CopyFrom Array to put them into a record.
-
- This gets a little hairy with ValChecks that have multiple options like
- lookupandfill, but it can be done.
-
- I must add that I think it is ridiculous that this feature is not built
- into the tools menu in Paradox. Of course, I've been telling Borland
- since version 2.0 that they need to provide a built-in way to print
- report definitions and they haven't done that yet either.
-
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