How do you get SYSDICT into table builder? (None Specified)
At 19 JUL 1999 11:48:20AM Paxton Scott wrote:
I need to add some dict items so I can extract info from SYSREPOSWINS, but haven't figured out how to get the sys dictionaries into table builder…any clues? [email protected]
ARCS, Inc. [img]http://www.arcscustomsoftware.com/arcslogo.gif[/img] </QUOTE> ---- === At 19 JUL 1999 12:13PM Mike Ruane wrote: === <QUOTE>From sysprog.... Mike </QUOTE> ---- === At 19 JUL 1999 12:41PM Cameron Purdy wrote: === <QUOTE>Paxton, In addition to Mike's response (which is correct) please be very careful when working with system tables in the Table Builder. They were not created using the Table Builder, so sometimes the Table Builder may want to "take liberties" in column renumbering or other destructive operations. Cameron Purdy Revelation Software </QUOTE> ---- === At 19 JUL 1999 02:27PM Paxton Scott wrote: === <QUOTE>Thanks Cameron and Mike. I now find that I can't add a symbolic dictionary record, e.e. @ans=@record to get the forms' titles' Is there away to add a symbolic field to the system dictionaries? [email protected] [url=http://www.arcscustomsoftware/]ARCS, Inc. [img]http://www.arcscustomsoftware.com/arcslogo.gif[/img] </QUOTE> ---- === At 19 JUL 1999 04:43PM Cameron Purdy wrote: === <QUOTE>Paxton, I would suggest getting an engine log and seeing what is failing. Cameron Purdy Revelation Software </QUOTE> ---- === At 20 JUL 1999 08:44AM Donald Bakke wrote: === <QUOTE>[i]They were not created using the Table Builder, so sometimes the Table Builder may want to "take liberties" in column renumbering or other destructive operations.[/i] Is this yet another example of OI not using itself to develop itself? [email protected] [url=http://www.srpcs.com]SRP Computer Solution
At 20 JUL 1999 01:21PM Cameron Purdy wrote:
Hi Don,
Is this yet another example of OI not using itself to develop itself?
Yes, but with good reason. When the system tables were originally created and populated, none of the front-end tools (probably not even the infamous "Access Window") existed, and they probably did not exist for another 2 years or so. So the next most convenient tool
was used – Arev.
Cameron Purdy
Revelation Software
At 20 JUL 1999 10:33PM [email protected] - [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Actually Cam., hate to quibble, but the Access window was available, seeing as how it shipped with OE 1.0.
The problem with the Table Builder and certain system files, along with various user files is two-fold. One, the TB won't let you have a key field of 0 along with the multi-part keys. Second is the TB does not like missing values. Since some system dict fields are either non defined or have no dictionary items for them, the TB can begin to reorder them.
At least, that's how I see it, anyway.
At 21 JUL 1999 07:16AM Cameron Purdy wrote:
Aaron,
… hate to quibble …
No you don't!
Your summary of Table Builder's unyielding desire to neatly arrange field numbers is pretty close to what I have observed.
Cameron Purdy
Revelation Software
At 22 JUL 1999 09:16AM [email protected] - [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com]Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Look, I don't want to have an argument about it.
I guess I'll have to dust off my OI 1.0 and OE 1.0 floppies and see what files are still there. However, even for those files which starting from 2.0, the tools were completed long after the file structure was nailed down. I remember having to work in the Access window because DWB and LB wasn't quite ready yet.
Anyone know what happened to the Calvin bitmap?