Thursday, September 11, 2003
New Update to Foxfire! COM Component
Added some new functions to Foxfire! COM component to make it easier for getting objects and collections in DotNet.
If you are familiar with the FF! object model, you'll know that each object has the Items collection. Requests have collections for DataItems, Sorts, Calculations , etc and so on.
Apparently, DotNet in all its inherent omniscience can't grab one of these collections properly so we created GetRequests() which simply returns the Requests collection.
Now to get an item, you actually have to call GetItem( ).
So the code would look something like this:
x = CREATEOBJECT("foxfireom.ffapplication")
? x.setlocation("\ff60ent\")
lo = x.GetRequests()
loReq = lo.GetItem(1)
? loReq.RequestName
? loReq.Description
loItems = loReq.GetDataItems()
? loItems.count
? x.setlocation("\ff60ent\")
lo = x.GetRequests()
loReq = lo.GetItem(1)
? loReq.RequestName
? loReq.Description
loItems = loReq.GetDataItems()
? loItems.count
Oh well....
Separate download available: http://www.foxfirereporting.com/livedesign/ffom.zip
Email support@micromegasystems.com for the password.
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