Special Char Suggestions?
Rob Cozens
rcozens at pon.net
Thu May 8 06:59:01 EDT 2003
>Is this really needed? Would using this function be too wordy?
>
>function xxxxx recordType, dataName
> return "item [ ordinal of " & dataName & " in dictionary] of " & recordType
>end xxxxx -- whatever the name should be
Thanks for your suggestions, Dar.
It's an issue of resolving the field # before runtime vs during
runtime. The primary reason for the type|name syntax is so database
fields can be referred to by name rather than number while scripting;
so I'd prefer a method that doesn't impact on the runtime app.
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Rob Cozens
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