Re: Another FMP question
Re: Another FMP question
- Subject: Re: Another FMP question
- From: David Graham <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:29:51 -0800
At 4:48 PM +1100 11/8/00, Shane Stanley wrote:
I'm certainly no authority on FM Pro. Layout 0 is covered in the Apple
Events Reference in several places; what isn't mentioned is that it is
optional to specify it, although some of the samples ("count cells of
database 1") imply this.
As I mentioned in my last post, it *is* mandatory to specify layout
0. Take a look at this:
count cells of layout 0
-- 3276
count cells
-- 126
count cells of record 1
-- 2
count cells of record 1 of layout 0
-- 2
You may have gotten lucky and gotten the results you were after (as
in the second example) by not specifying it, but it isn't optional.
Have a a look through the Apple Events Reference, but ignore it's object
model; the stuff showing databases as elements of documents is very
misleading.
The funny thing is I actually found the FM object model to make more
sense than anything else I have tried to learn in AS. Maybe it's my
warped sense of logic. :)
I believe that the 'database' object is an element of 'document'
since a FM database is by definition 'only a collection of fields and
records' which would make it an element of the document which also
provides the state of the database (current found set). I think that
the real confusion lies in the definition and naming of the objects
and not it's object model.
- Dave
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