Shane RBEDIT has everything you are looking for EXCEPT the block cut - why not send it to RBTI as an enhancment request. If you've been paying attention to the list, every one of the boo-boo fixes that have come out since 7.0 was released has ALSO included some kind of new enhancment....
David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Handley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:22 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: QEdit Features and R:Code. > The logic isn't very complicated if you could do this from the R:base side, rather > than r:code. R:base could simply have a function that does a similar function to > list, only it outputs it to a .dat file and truncates the lines accordingly to achieve > the same result instantly. So it makes a variable for each column and puts it in a > file. > > output [table].dat > list [table] - without comments, or any other information, > > truncate lines an insert set var v, > > remove any additional information other than the type definition. > > ..and you have a ready made file that defines a variable for each column within > your table. > > You could do a similar thing to format a "list' to create a cursor which includes > every column/inserts a null variable into each of these columns. > > > I thouht about knocking up an application that does this, but haven't had the time > (qEdit must suffice for now). > > > Someone should talk to Razzak about including an R:Base data dictionary > feature and the features Shane is talking about into a new version of R:Code. > >
