Ah, Question answered then. Sorry, I didn't realise you were using the command window.
Dave Crozier The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and to lie about your age -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: 01 November 2006 11:54 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Returning one (or more) values from a form, including arrnys- non-OOP Dave Crozier wrote: > Paul, > Just as a digression, why would you want to use plain array as opposed > to a property of a custom object as one such property could actually > be the array? > > I find that ysing the custom object method really does allow a greater > degree of flexibility as named parameteres can actually be used as > opposed to parameters which are referenced by way of their array dimension. > Certainly changing the order/dimension of an array can involve you > with a great deal of recoding which is never a good thing. > > I have retrofitted custom objects now to all my older forms which > previously used arrays and I'm glad of the ease in which I can now > add/change parameter names at will with minimum coding effort. > > I must admit though that I've never used collections as parameters due > to the fact that I've never really looked into them in any detail I > guess, but they would seem to be useful in the same way as custom objects. > > Just interested in your reasoning here. Dave I wanted to be able to call my FoxOpenFile form from the command window and get an array of file names back. The method I described allows me to call it like this: DIME arrFileNames(1) DO FORM FoxOpenFile WITH "arrFileames" I believe that creating a custom object, giving it an array property and passing it to the form would take an extra line of calling code My post does answer the question that is asked from time to time - "How do I return more than one value back from a form ?" Cheers [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
