Some basic questions about fld tables

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks to Francois Cuneo and his questions, and to the clever people 
who answered them, and even  (in the case of HyperChris at aol.com) went 
a lot further. But compared with other aspects of RunRev, I must say 
that it seems a miserable way to have to learn about what appears to 
be a major new feature of the system. The fact is that there just 
isn't enough documentation to make it possible to use tables in a 
normal way (which IMHO is(by reading round the subject, doing a bit 
of experimenting etc, but not looking 'under the hood' in the IDE, 
exploring undocumented properties etc), and also there would appear 
to be some features of the implementation (especially the very 
limited way tables create events and respond to messages) which stop 
them being as useful as I for one might have hoped. Struggling on, 
however, AFAICS the following has not been covered even in 
HyperChris's work: how does the 'format... using' system work? For a 
start how does the nomenclature work - in the tableFun stack, we get 
a reference to some 'part of the field (i.e. some cells of the table) 
being formatted using 'decimal. The ref says

1,1:3,17	   Decimal:1

What does this actually mean? Assuming this is a kind of address list 
for cells which will be formatted as Decimal, what happens when I put 
a non-decimal value into one of these cells - AFAICS, nothing. What 
then does the 'format... using' do? Can't find anything relevant in 
the TD.

Sorry to be grumpy, but I think I'm still going to keep off tables 
until I feel that they're more properly integrated into RunRev. End 
of rant.

Graham
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