On Wednesday 17 December 2008 03:57:40 pm Ed Leafe wrote: > On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:56 PM, johnf wrote: > > I'm gathering data in the form of text (sometimes delimited) > > creating a dict > > and then I would like to create a Dabo.DataSet and then have it > > display in > > controls. I would also like to create filters based on > > 'dataset' (as in > > select * from dataset where something=something). That's what I'm > > doing and > > how Dabo could help. > > OK, so you parse the file and create a dDataSet. > > > First issue I don't know in advance what the structure will be - so > > how can I > > define a bizobj. Once I have the data I know a little more info but > > not > > enough to create a bizobj. > > I don't know why you need a bizobj: you have no table and no business > logic. > > > The user decides how the text is broken into parts. > > Again, no need for business logic; the user supplies that. > > > From my display I would then determine what I needed to do > > (translate/change/add) to the text. After I do that I'll be able to > > define a > > bizobj. But I'm not really updating a table and I don't have need > > of a > > bizobj. The end result will be another text file. Most likely a > > file that > > describes many bizobj's along with SQL statements etc.. > > So let me understand: you display a line of text, and the user marks > how to split it up, and probably also what to name each piece. You > then write that information to a text file. Is that correct? > > I guess I'm still not understanding why you think that you need a > cursor or a bizobj. > > > -- Ed Leafe
I agree I don't need a bizobj. I wanted a tempcursor. I can use it to store data and later to assist with the writting of the new text file. -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
