Newbie question on RecID

[Rick Robinson]

This isn't working, I get an exception when I try:

rnumber = myCursor.ULongField("RecID").value

I've checked that my select is using "**" instead of just "*".

I can't see the RecID from within the Valentina App. Am I supposed to 
be able to? I assume the RecID is created automatically? When does that 
happen? Is it possible there is no field RecID in my table/baseobject?

Rick

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 10:49  AM, Keith DeLong wrote:

>> I need to access the RecID of my records. How do I do that? How do I
>> create the characters that look like << and >>? Is this correct 
>> syntax?
>>
>> rnumber.text = str(myCursor.ULongField("<<RecID>>").value)
>>
>> Rick
>
>
> Hi Rick,
> Welcome to the list. I think you'll find this a real helpful place as 
> you
> get started with Valentina.
>
> You can get tripped up with RecIDs in a couple of ways:
>
> You can select recID explicitly via
>
> SELECT RecID, Field1, Field2 FROM baseobject...
>
> Or implicitly via **
>
> SELECT * FROM baseobject...  Yields the actual fields of your base 
> object
>
> Select ** FROM baseobject... Yields the baseobjects and RecID
>
>
> For populating fields, I use:
>
> rnumber.text = cursor.field("RecID").getstring
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Keith DeLong
>
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