V4MD - <null> results with lingo

[Bart Pietercil]

Hi Giacomo,

while Ruslan is working on a permanent fix, you could try to set the  
default values of your text fields to '' (empty string) and NOT  
accept NULL values in those fields.
This way you eliminate the need for a check and you always get the  
expected result.


hth

Bart P
On 16-jul-07, at 19:24, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 16/7/07 7:24 PM, "Giacomo Vernoni" <giacomo at way-out.it> wrote:
>
>> I understand that this is ONE POSSIBLE solution, but what's the point
>> of having a field.getstring() function that doesn't return an empty
>> string if a field is empty?
>>
>> Be also aware that in Director, converting <void> to a string gives
>> me an empty string:
>>
>> put string(void)
>>
>> -- ""
>>
>> I have also tried
>>
>> myText = string(vcursor.field("fld_text").value) -- the field is  
>> empty
>> put myText
>>
>> -- "<Null>"
>>
>> So I can't do that neither.
>>
>> So, the <null> result from vcursor.field("fld_text").value and the
>> "<null>" result from vcursor.field("fld_text").getstring() aren't
>> correct from my point of view... what do you think about it Ruslan?
>
> Please report this into Mantis.
>
>
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> Best regards,
>
> Ruslan Zasukhin
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> Paradigma Software, Inc
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