Why the Difference?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/28/05 10:21 PM, "Chuck Pelto" <cbpelto at pcisys.net> wrote:

Hi Chuck,

> Greetings,
> 
> Looking over the tutorial and the example BinaryLink.rb, I notice
> that there is a significant difference between the calls for creating
> the structure of a database in the tutorial and in the BinaryLink.rb
> example.
> 
> The tutorial has calls like:
> 
> tblPerson = mDatabase.CreateTable( ÒPersonÓ )
> call tblPerson.CreateVarCharField( ÒNameÓ, 1022, EVFlag.fIndexed )
> call tblPerson.CreateVarCharField( ÒLNameÓ, 1022, EVFlag.fIndexed )
> call tblPerson.CreateDateField( ÒBornDateÓ, EVFlag.fIndexed )

This is API_way.

Exists folder Examples/API_Way with many examples.
 
> Meanwhile, the BinaryLink.rb has calls like:
> 
>    name = "tblAdmin"
> 
>    comments = new VText("comments", 1024 )
>    keywords = new VVarChar("keywords", 504 )
>    createDT = new VDateTime("createDT")
>    modifyDT = new VDateTime("modifyDT")

I think you look on example located in folder Examples/Classes_way

This is another way.
 
> The former is in accordance with the new reference manual. The latter
> looks like it's out of the old reference manual.
> 
> Why is this the case?

The classes way, is just Object-Oriented wrapper to API-way.

This is quite legal and modern way for 2.0! :-)


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