Re: Fixes to Informix-4gl

In-Reply-To: <1gor7vINN4u9@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> dave.snyder@snide.com (Dave Snyder) TITLE: Re: Fixes to Informix-4gl In <1gor7vINN4u9@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> Dave Snyder writes: [Stuff deleted] > Sounds great... but what happens if the data isn't sorted alphabetically? > An example that comes to mind is in a medical system that I just wrote. > There is a pop-up window of languages that people have to select from. > In our area, ENGLISH is first, SPANISH is second, FRENCH third, etc. I > display this by using an internal sequence number assigned by the customer. > Now although there are only about a dozen or two languages and "page ahead" > would only have to be hit twice, how would this work if you had many rows? I think this one should be looked at more in the principle of the thing rather than in the execution of the given example. Could it not be arranged so that the displayed list was indexed on some column and have the "page ahead" funtion work on that column? | I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way -- Jessica Rabbit | |------------------------------------------------------------| | Stuart Hemming | shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk | | Tudor Labels Ltd | uunet!cix.compulink.co.uk!shemminga | | Roman Bank Bourne | Tel : (+44) 778 426444 | | Lincs PE10 9LQ. UK. | Fax : (+44) 778 421862 | Stuart |8-)