Le mercredi 16 mai 2007 15:MM, Marc Santhoff a écrit : Hi,
> Especially when using BASIC there is no way of converting datatyes using > an API service (at lest one I know, please tell me if so!) so you'd have > to convert each value to the type the bound fields wants to see. In > BASIC this blows up code by factor three (I know for sure, because I > have made some read- and write-back-macros for database data in calc > sheets :P ). Yep, code explosion :-( > > If one uses the control/view in this scenario the only types to detect > are Date-, Time- and FormattedField bindings, all the rest is text. The > conversion and format checking is done behind the scenes. And it is still a pain having to convert dates from strings and back :-( > > I used this approach for copying a record in a form as template for e > new one (excliding the primary key field). Now I have exactly this problem, you wouldn't have some macro code lying around somewhere that you'd be willing to share by any chance ? (he says grovelling ;-) ) Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
