What's Wrong With This 'Picture'?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 6/3/06 2:34 AM, "Chuck Pelto" <cbpelto at pcisys.net> wrote:

>>> Still working towards a modular approach to keeping data in a listbox
>>> closely related to the data in the VTable/VField it came from, in an
>>> application being developed with RB2006v2 and V4RB2.
>>> 
>>> I'm having a bit of a problem with a particular call....
>>> 
>>> theTable.theField.Value = theData
>>> 
>>> The params for the method in the module are as follows:
>>> 
>>> theTable as VTable, theField as VField, theData as string, recID as
>>> integer
>>> 
>>> The problem is that during compile, I'm getting an error that
>>> theTable.theField.Value does not exist as a method or property.
>> 
>> So you have
>> 
>> Foo( theTable as VTable, theField as VField, theData as string,
>> recID as
>> integer)
>> 
>>      theTable.theField.Value = theData      << ????
>> 
>> end
>> 
>> Of course this is wrong. How you going join PARAMETERS into this
>> chain ?
>> 
>> TheTable is Vtable varaible.
>> 
>> Class VTAble do not have theField property
> 
> Okay....
> 
> ....how do I translate to the module the field inside of the table I
> want to update?
> 
> The IDEAL here is to build a module that can be easily transliterated
> from one application to another.

You already have pointer on field object,
So all you need something like this

      theField.Value = theData      << ????
      theTable.UpdateRecord

-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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