[VSDK] VDK_Text with unique attribute broken?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/8/04 8:37 PM, "Eric Forget" <forgete at cafederic.com> wrote:

Hi Eric,

That was a FEATURE.

What sense to have unique flag for text field ?!

Index consider only the first 255 chars of string.
Assume you have letters or notes.
What sense to set Unique flag for TEXT ?

 
> Is it just me or the "unique" attribute set on a VDK_Text is broken? It
> looks like a bad initialization of a variable. The first search for
> uniqueness is working. However, all the following is using the value of the
> first search, which is definitively no longer unique.
> 
> For example with starting values:
> 
> Untitled 1
> Untitled 2
> 
> If I add "Untitled 3" it will compare with both "Untitled 1 and "Untitled 2"
> and found it is unique. I will then have:
> 
> Untitled 1
> Untitled 2
> Untitled 3
> 
> If I then add "Untitled 4" it will compare "Untitled 3" with the 3 values
> above and find that "Untitled 4" is not unique.
> 
> I know this because I have my own compare function and I've put a trace in
> it.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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