[V4RB] 3 simple [?] questions

[Pedro fp]

G'day Keith et al

Actually I am using a cursor, that's what 'data' in my code is. It's 
named so because it's the data displayed by the window that it's a 
property of. That cursor, being a window property, is also the reason 
for my question about killing cursors.

Thanks to all for your helpful answers both now & all other times I've 
posted questions.

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:35  AM, Keith DeLong wrote:

>> 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?
>
> I use doubles instead of dates in V4RB... For base object, I'd use:
>
> d = new date
> d.totalseconds = data.MyDateDouble.value
>
> It's really much better to use cursors:
>
> d.totalseconds = cursor.doublefield("MyDate").value
> cursor.add   //or cursor.update

Cheers, Pedro :-)

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