[C SDK] Reading values from cursor

[Olaf Schmidtmann]

Hi Ruslan,

someone hinted me that getting string values has something to do with these
string buffers. I will try that and report later or tomorrow. I still have
the error 363 question.

bye
Olaf

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olaf Schmidtmann [mailto:os at brainbits.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 4:08 PM
> To: 'Valentina Developers'
> Subject: [C SDK] Reading values from cursor
> 
> 
> Hi Ruslan,
> 
> my link between Valentina and Flash seems to work now:
> I can create cursors by sql selects, get references, field 
> counts, record counts... But when it comes to getting field 
> types, names and values it still does not work as it should. 
> It seems that I get integers for these and not string for example :-(
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> [
> 	{
> 		fRef: 44076136
> 		fName: 44201312
> 		fType: 15
> 		fValue: 20024512
> 	}
> 	{
> 		fRef: 44063884
> 		fName: 44201312
> 		fType: 10
> 		fValue: 44199248
> 	}
> ...
> 
> I create a cursor and do something like this to get these values:
> 
> // fRef is my field reference
> fName = Field_GetName(fRef)
> fType = Field_GetType(fRef)
> fValue = Field_GetString(fRef) // Should work for almost 
> everything, right?
> 
> Do you have any idea?
> DebugView does not report something special - everything 
> seems to work. Of course it could be that my interface to 
> access the DLL fails but they say it works with boolean, 
> integer, string.
> 
> 
> When I try to create another cursor and overwrite the old 
> reference I get error 363. What does this mean? Do I have to 
> destroy the cursor before (set it null)? In Director I could 
> simply overwrite the old variable which maybe is a little dirty.
> 
> 
> Thank you and bye,
> Olaf
> 
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