Re: Another FMP question
Re: Another FMP question
- Subject: Re: Another FMP question
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 22:12:13 -0800
On 11/7/00 9:59 PM, "David Graham" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Well, yes, but then so it appears did the FMP AS implementers! I'm sorry I
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> insisted on 'document': of course you're right that layout is an element of
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> database, too. But that shouldn't make 'cell 1 of layout 1 of database 1'
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> the same as 'cell 1 of database 1', except via a coercion.
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Not true. See below for default containment in FileMaker.
Well, that IS the coercion outlined below! (Semantics here: we agree on this
now, so let's drop it.)
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Object* Default containment substitutes
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record record 1
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layout current layout
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window frontmost window
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database frontmost database
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document frontmost document (current found set)
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*Assuming the object has not been specified
Well, this is certainly authoritative! As I said, I don't have the Apple
Events reference yet, but I certainly wanted to consult it. (Someone sent me
an FMP Help Guide off-list, which referred to the AER, so I knew it
existed.) And it seems I guessed right about 'current layout'.
But there's no good reason why each line of the "pocket" version of the
containment procedure, which you quote above, shouldn't be in the
appropriate definition in the Dictionary. i had already noticed that
"frontmost database" and "frontmost document" were assumed, and would have
liked to see it confirmed.
--
Paul Berkowitz