RE: What do you do when a subfile has no records?

message: 1
date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:17:28 -0500 (Central Standard Time)
from: "Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: What do you do when a subfile has no records?

What do you do when a subfile has no records?  As I program yet another
subfile it dons on me that my solution for an empty subfile is not very
elegant, and probably isn't even very good.

What do others do?

---

Since I've been reading Booth's posts for a long time and seen code he's
posted, I am inclined to disagree with his quality rating.

However, to answer your question, it depends on the application.  My
solutions have been:

1) If I'm broke, my code credits my bank account, debiting the user's
bank account by the corresponding amount.  To determine the amount, I
use SFLPAG as a multiplier, and the user's age as the base.  Older IT
people should know where their data is.

2) If I'm feeling annoyed, I just shock the user, and send the message,
"No data --- BAD!"

3) If I'm feeling psychological, I just shock the user, and send the
message, "How did that make you feel?"

4) Otherwise, I do what most programmers do-- I send a message to the
message subfile, saying "No records available.  Press F6 to add
records."  If message subfiles aren't shop standard (:::sigh:::), I
create an alternate record format that says "No records available.
Press F6 to add records," and display that in place of the empty
subfile.  It's fugly, but it does work.

-Doc

P.S.  Under advice of counsel, I cannot post the code to solutions 1, 2,
or 3.  


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