Re: how to get the value of a typed-in field

Posted in 1992

Dave Snyder — 14 Apr 92 01:23:33 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <1992Apr11.221012.14683@fivegl.co.nz>, hugh@fivegl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson) writes: -> Here's basically what we use. Of course this is completely undocumented, -> unsupported by anyone, not guaranteed to do anything, but it works for us... -> -> -> #include "sqlfm.h" -> -> extern _EFICB *eficb; -> -> fgl_getbuffer() -> { -> if (eficb->_EFbuf) -> retquote(eficb->_EFbuf); -> else -> retquote(""); -> return 1; -> } This is basically what Jonathan Leffler @ Informix Software told me. BTW, this does work beautifully but don't use it with Informix 5.0! Now if we can only find out how to read the OTHER icb's :-) DAS -- David A. Snyder @ Snide Inc. - Folcroft, PA Current Release is db4glgen-3.4 UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: dave.snyder@snide.com