that is only determinable by you. in some instances strings were used to save space (older systems) in some instances strings were used allow indexing (older systems) in some instances strings were used to restrict data entry in some instances strings were used as this was a default.
if case 1, 2, or 4 you can freely replace with no issue. if case 3 you will have to examine each instance to determine how to resolve the issue(s) Chip On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:12:58 +0100, Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech wrote: > Thanks Chip. I am less concerned about the how as I am happy to > manually brute force replace the 200 instances of usage. It's more > about whether or not to... > > Regards, > > Narinder Chandi, > ToolBox Systems Ltd. > -- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chip Scheide <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 7 June 2019 at 17:02 > To: 4D iNug Technical <[email protected]> > Cc: Narinder Chandi <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY > STRING Commands > > not the easiest thing to do. > > what I did: > - globally replace: > C_String(<size>; -> C_Text( > > Where <size> is a string size that is used a lot in your system(s). > repeat until most of the more often used string sizes are done. > > - globally replace: > C_String( -> C_Text( > - Run compiler, fix individual errors, or notice sizes you missed above > and do global replaces using C_Text(<size>; -> C_Text( > > repeat the above for arrays > > Not fast, but that should resolve the issue - eventually > > Chip > On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:48:59 +0100, Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech wrote: > > _o_C_INTEGER I have simply replaced with C_LONGINT as the docs state > > that "...4D and the compiler retype Integers into Longints > > internally." > --------------- > Gas is for washing parts > Alcohol is for drinkin' > Nitromethane is for racing > > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** --------------- Gas is for washing parts Alcohol is for drinkin' Nitromethane is for racing ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
