XB to view the properties card for a specified table

[MoGrace]

When you right click on a table in the control panel you can bring up the properties for that table or set. How might this be done using XB to pass the name of the table to the script? I can't seem to get a search to locate such a function if it exists.

[G Gabriel]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

<TBL>.FIELD_STATISTICS()
You get get all other properties with enumeration functions.

[MoGrace]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Field Stats is good, but somebody already made the XD for this property card and is able to call it from the control panel right click menu with a script - you'd think giving us access to it would be easy enough without having to display the control panel - or reinvent the wheel!

[csda1]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Hi Robin,

Field Stats is good, but somebody already made the XD for this property card and is able to call it from the control panel right click menu with a script - you'd think giving us access to it would be easy enough without having to display the control panel - or reinvent the wheel!

The CSDA Code Utility has an enhanced version of Alpha's display. However, you can call the display that Alpha has by calling the code

a5_display_tableset_info("table_or_set_name")

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Robin, I'd think long and hard before I gave the end user access to the control panel so they could "pick a table".

If you build the table list in a listbox or listview you can get the selected name from the variable the control returns.

[MoGrace]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Ira - thanks so much, I checked for "A5" functions and didn't find it.
Edit: Well I tried it and also checked for instructions in the Wiki and of course there are none. Nor does the bubblehelp help much since it prompts for a set and offers a pick list of sets, and then errs because it can't find the ".dbf"! It does however work on a table.

Tom - That's the point! Seeing the table info without having access to the CP is what I hoped to achieve.

[Ted Giles]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Robin/Ira.
Is thete a list of every function like [a5_display_tableset_info("table_or_set_name")]?
It's not in the Wiki as you mention Robin, and I couldn't find it in the Local Help.
If there is a list, can someone point me to it please?

[G Gabriel]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Field Stats is good, but somebody already made the XD for this property card and is able to call it from the control panel right click menu with a script - you'd think giving us access to it would be easy enough without having to display the control panel - or reinvent the wheel!

No understand English!
Who said you have to access the CP to run this function?

[glenschild]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Robin/Ira.
Is thete a list of every function like [a5_display_tableset_info("table_or_set_name")]?
It's not in the Wiki as you mention Robin, and I couldn't find it in the Local Help.
If there is a list, can someone point me to it please?

Hi Ted

It is listed as are all functions in the Code Library -> Xbasic Explorer, dragging into the interactive window gives pointers. (see images)

Kind regards

Glen

[Ted Giles]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Thanks Glen, I've been poking about in the XBE this afternoon.

[csda1]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Hi Ted,

Some of the functions are documented there and there are ways to extract a portion of the available functions, but not all.

I have internally developed code that allows me to extract a much larger list of functions and methods that are undocumented or minimally documented and some of the parameters and their types and help. They are assembled into an Alpha Database that I created to allow searching for keywords, return types, version it was introduced, etc and to add my notes that allow me selection for special developer needs. There are many functions that are absolute junk, some are wrappers for script code, and some very useful, but none of them can you depend on because they are UNDOCUMENTED, and thus subject to change at any time, and that has burned me before.

[MoGrace]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Ira I have noticed in your UDF examples that you are able to use a keyword and get it to pop up the bubble help that then allows you to use a picklist. Is there a secret to how you get this to work? Because when I tried to use the keyword 'tablename' eg., in one of my UDF's - nothing like that happens in v10.5.

Edit: Ok just tried it again with another function used to open a form and changed my keyword to 'layoutname'. The trick is to be sure the '()" are in place when you right click on the bubblehelp to get the pick list. This explains to me why it might be so many of the other A5 functions were not giving me the pick list either ... a duh moment for sure!

[Ted Giles]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Thanks Ira, comments much appreciated. I posted a simple app with the errors list so a user could add the "doh" comments.
Once written - never forgotten I was taught.
I also have my own repository to fiddle with, and trying to solve some of the questions posed on the Forum really stretch a body.
Latest challenge is to get - in one line and in a Calc field - the Text value of a Tabbed object Tab as it changes.
I replied to a simple q on the Forum and now need an operation to remove my foot from my gob!

[csda1]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Hi Ted,

Latest challenge is to get - in one line and in a Calc field - the Text value of a Tabbed object Tab as it changes.

Are you talking about a form or XDialog tabbed object? The form tabbed object is definitely available to read & change. You just have to go through the form's tabbed Xbasic objects to get the properties.

[Ted Giles]

Re: XB to view the properties card for a specified table

Ask me about Physical Backward Pointers in a DL/1 database.
I'll start a new thread Ira. No one will find the answer on this one.
Have a good weekend.
Ted