sbase is driving me nuts
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Hi there, I'm a fairly new user to super-base. Despite the fact that my
previous posts have been ignored I'm going to try once again to get a
response.
Currently I have two linked files. one is a list of MusicGroups, the
other is a list of the Albums by each group. The MusicGroups is the
master file and the MusicAlbums is the many part of the relation.
I'm trying to set up a transaction under the forms editor to display all
the albums created by a particular group which I've done no problem. But
I cannot get the transactions to list in order of 'date album released'
which is defined and indexed in MusicAlbums.
Also I cannot figure out a way to create a new entry in the MusicAlbums
when the transaction screen is full. The SER function doesn't create
unique numbers when I'm entering via transaction.
Finally I'll repeat a question I had concerning a previous problem with
radio buttons and trying to assign them to a field in a transaction. I
had 3 radio buttons each with 3 differen't values, once I attached them to
the transaction the would all contain the same value. Is this a bug or am
I just going about it the wrong way?
Shannon
Shannon,
Your radio buttons are all going to have the same value if you used the
same variable name for all of them.
As for transaction line woes, your best bet is to get the book OCTS
Workbook for Superbase 4 v1.31. Although it is targetted to the Windows
version, it will certainly be useable for the Amiga version and the
techniques discussed for handling transaction lines can be applied on the
Amiga as well. It is not a trivial problem.
Ciao, Neil
Neil.
Radio buttons cannot be given names. Only CMD's used as push-buttons can
be assigned names.
When a radio button is created all it does is ask which field to assign a
value to and what value to assign that field.
BTW what is the deal with the sort order within transactions am I stuck
with this? Actually the more I think about it the more I realize the
answer is probably yes. In that case it'd be nice if Sbase would allow me
to define which file & index that the transaction will use. BUMMER.
Shannon
I never put fields into the transaction lines. I did not like what it
did, nor how it did it.
I now put variables up there in transaction lines and fill these variables
how I please. Remember you can use the CLC button to lay a variable.
When you make it a transaction line that variable becomes an array.
Works great.
-mark=
I take it back, you are right. I was thinking of the dialog boxes. Still, I
have never had the problem you describe with pushbuttons in a transaction
line. If that is true, it is definitely a bug.
Ciao, Neil