On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Neil Rhodes wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I guarantee you, DmSeekRecordInCategory works like you want.
>
> Given the database with the 5 records you described below, after calling:
> recordNum = 0;
> DmSeekRecordInCategory(inDB, &recordNum, 1, dmSeekForward, 3);
Thanks, I guess it was the the way the wording of offset, that threw
me. I think I have it figured out now.
Thanks again
Mike
> recordNum will contain 4, the record number of the 2nd record in category
> 3.
> If you call:
> recordNum = 0;
> DmSeekRecordInCategory(inDB, &recordNum, 0, dmSeekForward, 3);
>
> then, recordNum will contain 1, the 1st record in category number 3.
>
> If you're getting different results, post your source and I'll tell you why
> it isn't doing what you want.
>
>
> Neil
>
> > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ramel Levin wrote:
> >
> >> UInt recordNum = 0;
> >> DmSeekRecordInCategory(inDbP, &recordNum, inOffset, dmSeekForward,
> >> inCategory);
> >>
> >> inOffset would be 3 in your case and you'll get the number in recordNum
> >
> > No! This does not work. This function works as I thought. It only
> > returns the item number in the category. What I want it the index
> > number in the database.
> >
> > I created a database with 6 items. Items 3,5,6 were in the same
> > category. I selected item 0 in the list (or item 3 in the database) and
> > this function returns 0.
> >
> > DB Category
> > -------------------
> > item0 cat1
> > item1 cat3
> > item2 cat2
> > item3 cat1
> > item4 cat3
> >
> > What I am looking for, is when I have a list of items in category 3,
> > that if I select item5 it returns index for item 4 (ie. index 4). That
> > function just returns 1 (zero based).
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Ramel Levin
> >> The PalmMate Team
> >>
> >> Got a Palm? Gotta visit www.PalmMate.com
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Michael S. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 5:56 PM
> >> Subject: Still no answer - Index of Selected item in Category
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I still need a solution to this problem. I want to be able
> >> > to delete a record that is displayed in a list that is displayed
> >> > on a form. The list contains items within a category.
> >> >
> >> > So there might be 4 items in the list because there are only
> >> > 4 items within a specific category.
> >> >
> >> > When I select item 3, for instance, I want to delete that item
> >> > from the database. But I need the index, within the database, to do
> >> > that. And the index might be 100, or 30 or who knows what.
> >> >
> >> > The only function that I see that is close is DmPositionInCategory() but
> >> > that appears to return the position in the list (3 in this case) and
> >> > not the index within the database, that is needed by DmDeleteRecord().
> >> >
> >> > Can someone explain how to get the index, needed by DmDeleteRecord()
> >> > when I have a subset of the database, by using a category.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
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