Re: field values

Posted in 1992

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Tue, 25 Feb 92 01:55:55 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!swrinde!mips!decwrl!nsc!pyramid!infmx!dranney From: dranney@informix.com (David Ranney) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Feb25.032211.10745@informix.com> Date: 25 Feb 92 03:22:11 GMT References: <paulb.698573226@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News) Organization: Informix Software, Inc. In article <paulb.698573226@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> paulb@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Paul Bean) writes: >Firstly thanks to everyone who mailed/posted help with regard to >before/next field question. The fgl_lastkey and fgl_keyval functions >were particularly useful - Are these documented anywhere, we do not >appear to have them in any of the stuff we have ? As a follow up is >there a way to find out what the contents of a field are before you >have left it. I would like to give a popup list of values whilst >still in the field and use the string typed in so far. > >thanks Paul Bean Version 4.10 of 4GL has a new function to do what you want, namely get_fldbuf() These are all documented in the 4.10 4GL Supplement. Ask for it by name! :-)