The code to read forms with API_PACK is broken with v11.3
Johan_Braun (12/2/08 4:04AM)
David Dancy (12/3/08 9:45AM)
Johan_Braun (12/2/08 4:04 AM)
Has anyone else managed to read the form names from a v11 database? It
seems
that the resource that stores this information has changed. Does
anyone have
any information about this?
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David Dancy (12/3/08 9:45 AM)
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Johan_Braun <johanbra@...
wrote:
Has anyone else managed to read the form names from a v11 database? It
seems
that the resource that stores this information has changed. Does
anyone have
any information about this?
Johan
You're right, it has completely changed. IIRC, 4D does not use
resources internally after v2004. Instead, the whole structure file is
itself a database, whose format and contents are kept (deliberately)
hidden from the 4D developer, apart from the list of schemas, tables
and fields. There are no functions that I'm aware of to access the
information you want; however, these kinds of functions have long been
the subject of numerous feature requests. It's possible that something
will be done in the current v11 release series, but I'm not holding my
breath. If you look at the list of features slated for The Next
Version (whatever they will call it then) it's more likely that these
functions will be implemented there instead.
Sorry to have only bad news. Perhaps someone from 4D may have
something more optimistic to say.
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David Dancy
Sydney, Australia
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