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- Path: sparky!uunet!virgin!satco!aaron
- From: aaron@satco.UUCP (Aaron Pelton)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Informix 4GL arrays
- Keywords: 4gl array scroll
- Message-ID: <849@satco.UUCP>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 20:19:25 GMT
- Reply-To: aaron@satco.UUCP (Aaron Pelton,Colby Mansion)
- Followup-To: pelton@uvm-gen.emba.uvm.edu
- Organization: Saturday Company, Waterbury, VT
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- In my quest for the answer to Informix vs Progress I've come across
- a particular area, scrolling data on the screen, that Informix doesn't
- seem to handle well.
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- Given that I have a set of data that may be anywhere from 0 to n records
- that I want to place in a scrolling region on the screen, can it be done
- without a LOT of code to accomplish this?
-
- Arrays would solve the problem only I don't know ahead of time how big
- it needs to be and it could be greater than several thousand records. (I
- know, it's not likely, but Progress seems to do it naturally.....) Trying
- it out I came up with just using INPUT, SCROLL and FETCHES. I use the
- keyed data from the INPUT for updates so I have to close the cursor and
- reopen it and so forth. I'm at 79 lines (w/ bugs still) and counting while
- progress seems to be able to do it in about 10 lines. Sort of the reason
- why we want to go to a 4gl......
-
- Can anyone recommend a direction to look for clues? Is it possible to
- fool informix into using a malloc'd array?
-
- (Note: I admit it, I'm for informix but I have to convince the others of
- the team.....)
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- Aaron Pelton | If it sounds like an opinion, it's probably mine.
- aaron@satco.UUCP | Only R. Crusoe could have it all done by Friday
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