Re: Is there an undocumented get_key or similar ?

Posted in 1995

Dave Snyder — Fri, 24 Feb 1995 02:26:19 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <3iisrj$c2v@infmx.informix.com>, June Tong (junet@informix.com) writes: >The fgl_lastkey() and fgl_keyval() functions which everyone is mentioning were >added in Version 4.10 of 4GL. Since the original poster mentioned that he is >on 4.0, the only thing available to him is the undocumented/unsupported/ >replaced-by-fgl_lastkey() feature called eflastkey. > Just a little note... db4glgen-3.21 for 4.0 Informix-4GL (not the one for 4.1 4GL) has reverse-engineered functions of the following: fgl_lastkey() fgl_keyval() field_touched() get_fldbuf() The advantage to using the reverse-engineered functions is that when you upgrade to 4.1 (eventually :-) you don't have to make a single change to your 4GL code. DAS -- Dave Snyder, Postmaster - Snide Computer Services - Folcroft, PA UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: dave@das13.snide.com