3 questions

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 19/10/07 4:50 PM, "Joseph Morgan" <joseph at checkos.com> wrote:

> 
>> idxfield() return a REALBasic DatabaseField and for this there is
>> no "shortdate" method defined for, perhaps with some undocumented
>> function in RB (or overwritten by Valentina). "shortdate" is only
>> defined for a variable of type Date. But if it is defined you
>> expect here, that there is a value in idxfield and that this value
>> is of type Date. Better try step by step with some variables to see
>> what happens.
> Yes it looks like instead of date value we are getting a date string.
> 
> 
>> When working with VCursor you can access the fields with DateField
>> () and you have the correct methods defined to get a Date from
>> Valentina.
> It will require a lot of re-working of my code. (I'll do it if I have
> to)
> I have a complete program that was originally written for mysql.
> I decided to re-design it about a year ago but only decided to use
> valentina about a month ago.

Yes I understand this.
And it will be really interesting todo this.

But as I have not before, may be 99% of Valentina developers drop ugly RBDB
way and start to use nice and perfect Valentina way :-)


If you have some problems with RBDB way, describe them very detailed,
We will try help or fix them.


-- 
Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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