[Valentina General] using a method to track a recursive path

Gunnar Swan gunnarswan at PracticeToPass.com
Fri Sep 10 15:42:22 CDT 2004


Recursively call the same method or object. In the new instance, walk through everything at that level.
We do this on our software Table of Contents.
This allows the Table Of Contents to change, but not have to change any code.

We do this as a parent script.

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9/10/04 3:00:05 PM, Daniel Crowder <daniel at monumental-i.com> wrote:

>Still having a blast working on my first project. One question: I 
>currently have an infinitely recursive category table that I use to 
>classify products. Basically it is just a table that has 
>object_pointers to other fields in the same table. Basic relational 
>stuff. I currently have the program 'climb' up to the parent from the 
>child in the application - but I am wondering if I could use a method 
>to do this for me? (return an array/properylist). I'm not sure how to 
>approach this but something like:
>
>MYMETHOD =parent's MYMETHOD+','+myRECID
>
>
>Any suggestions really appreciated!
>
>- Daniel
>
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Best Regards,
Gunnar Swan
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