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Create cursor when no. of fields unknown
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From
07/05/1998 14:26:24
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
 
To
07/05/1998 14:09:06
Dave Emerson
Dc Emerson Consult8Ng, Inc
Destin, Florida, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00097782
Message ID:
00097793
Views:
22
>Hi all,
>
>I have a problem wherein I need to create a cursor for a form grid and the number of fields may be different with any given call to the form.
>
>I create the cursor and then load it with fields from several tables.
>
>The problem lay in the create cursor command where I need to specify the fields. On one occasion there may need to be 15 fields, but on another occasion only 10.
>
>Does anyone have an idea on how to create a cursor with varying number of fields?
>
>Perhaps I should just use a cursor with many fields and ignore those I don't need.
>
>TIA,
>Dave
Dave,
After creating the cursor you load it from several tables, so I think you use and SQL to do that. If so simply SQL to a true cursor and use it :
select ... where .t. and ... into cursor tcTemp
use dbf("tcTemp") in 0 again alias tcGridCursor
use in "tcTemp"
select tcGridCursor
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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