>Hi all,
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>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.
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>I create the cursor and then load it with fields from several tables.
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>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.
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>Does anyone have an idea on how to create a cursor with varying number of fields?
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>Perhaps I should just use a cursor with many fields and ignore those I don't need.
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>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