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

[Gunnar Swan]

Do methods have control structures such as IF, CASE, WHILE ?

If so, then you should be able to execute this. 

If not, Lingo is the tool.

Good Luck!


9/10/04 3:50:20 PM, Daniel Crowder <daniel at monumental-i.com> wrote:

>If I understand you correctly, I'm already doing that in software 
>(lingo) I want to be able to do that in a method base object in the 
>database itself. That's what I would like to do and would like to see 
>examples of or suggestions on how to do that.
>
>
>On Sep 10, 2004, at 6:42 PM, Gunnar Swan wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> g
>>
>> 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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Gunnar Swan
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