[V4RB] 3 simple [?] questions

[Pedro fp]

G'day Folks

Three questions that I suspect are all rather simple matters but I 
haven't found answered in the Valentina docs.

1. Closing vCursor ... With READdb I found that it is absolutely 
crucial that RecordSets be explicitly closed when finished with. I 
started porting my project planning to follow similar practice with 
Valentina but haven't found any way to explicitly close a vCursor. Is 
it necessary? If so how is it done? With cur = nil?

2. Dates. I'd like to display dates as a REALbasic ShortDate because 
that formats the date according to the users system preferences. 
Currently I'm doing that with the following ...

   d = new date
   d.year = data.DateField( "dateAdded" ).year
   d.month = data.DateField( "dateAdded" ).month
   d.day = data.DateField( "dateAdded" ).day
   efDateAdded.text = d.shortDate

Can anyone suggest a more concise approach?

3. I have a listbox that will used display at 4 different sets of 
fields. I'd like, if possible, to populate it with a generic block of 
code rather than a block for each set of fields. Am I correct in 
believing that ...

   cur.field( indexOrName ).getString

will return the field contents as a string for all or most field types?

Cheers, Pedro :-)

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