There is no association between newRecord & newRecordPtr. newRecordPtr
refererences your record, but you're writing your data to newRecord
which is NOT what newRecordPtr references.
At 10:53 AM 6/22/01 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We have read the docs and we have a question on how o save the text in
>our field. This is our code.
>
>gDb=DmOpenDatabaseByTypeCreator(yourdbtype,yourapptype,dmModeReadWrite);
>
> if(! gDb)
>DmCreateDatabase(0,yourdbname,yourapptype,yourdbtype,false);
>
>DmOpenDatabaseInfo(gDb,&theLocalID,NULL,NULL,&theCardNum,NULL);
>
>DmDatabaseInfo(theCardNum,theLocalID,NULL,&theAttributes,
>
>NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL);
> theAttributes |= dmHdrAttrBackup;
> theCardNum=0;
>
>DmSetDatabaseInfo(theCardNum,theLocalID,NULL,&theAttributes,
>
>NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL);
> if (adding)
> {
> myRecordHandle=DmNewRecord(gDb,
>&RecordIndex, sizeof(newRecord));
> newRecordPtr=(OurStruct
>*)MemHandleLock(myRecordHandle);
> newRecord.cost=Coster;
> newRecord.serialnum=Serial;
> newRecord.datefield=Dater;
> newRecord.itemname=Namer;
> newRecord.lin=Lin;
> newRecord.nsn=Nsn;
>
>DmWrite(newRecordPtr,0,&newRecord,sizeof(newRecord));
> DmWrite(newRecordPtr,0,(CharPtr)
>&newRecord->serialnum,sizeof(newRecord));
> MemHandleUnlock(myRecordHandle);
>
> }
>
>Our code works and actually saves records but in the records, our field's text is not
>in there. Please help us! Thanks!
>
>
>
> GOD Bless!!!
>
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