>Can some helpful person tell me how I check the category of a record, given
>a pointer to it's handle?
You don't need the pointer or the handle (in fact, AFAIK, you can't
get the category with either of those things).
Regards,
Steve Mann
/***********************************************************************
* FUNCTION: UTGetRecordCategory
*
* DESCRIPTION: Set the category for a database record.
*
* RETURNED: the category
***********************************************************************/
UInt8 UTGetRecordCategory // ( out ) the category
(
DmOpenRef dbRef, // ( in ) the database reference ID
UInt16 index // ( in ) index of the record to change
)
{
Err error;
UInt16 category;
error = DmRecordInfo ( dbRef, index, &category, NULL, NULL );
ErrFatalDisplayIf ( error, "Error getting the record info" );
category &= dmRecAttrCategoryMask;
return ( UInt8 ) category;
}
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