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Title: CONSTRUCT enhancements Post by: Candy M. on January 30, 2009, 02:14:19 am We would like to be able to do two things:
1. Build a form dynamically in the DOM tree without an XML (.42f) file. 2. Then by using that form, have an enhanced CONSTRUCT statement that allows you to specify the column-list dynamically with a screen and specify the screen record dynamically with string and the screen record matches the form. Then, given any table in the database, we could generate a dynamic Query-By-Form. This would be really NICE!! If there is a way to do this now, I'd like to know how to do it. I think it's like what Neil was talking about in other thread with his DBQUERY. What happened to the dbquery that I have in my Genero Training manual? Candy McCall Title: Re: CONSTRUCT enhancements Post by: Sebastien F. on January 30, 2009, 10:23:11 am Candy,
Just a quick thought (not tried): As you know, the data types of CONSTRUCT fields are defined by the form file (not program variables like in INPUT). Maybe you can setup a CONSTRUCT that has a predefined list of fields (hard-coded), and disable/hide the fields that are not needed. As long as the unused fields are defined in the form that should work... The dialog internals are prepared for generic/dynamic programing (add fields dynamically), but we don't want to publish this for now as we have other priorities. We will certainly consider this in a future version. Seb Title: Re: CONSTRUCT enhancements Post by: Sebastien F. on January 30, 2009, 10:26:26 am Another idea I suggested one day to the team was to let you generate 4gl code at runtime, compile and load the module with a special instruction, then call functions from that module.
That would remove all limitations of the current static 4gl instructions, IMHO. Just a personal thought, not discussed in detail with the team. Seb |