Re: Same prefixes (was Re: It's That Time Again! etc.)

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True.

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"Peter Dow" <maillist@dowsoftware.com>
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Hi Rob,

No, trickier than the more common (in my experience) method where fields
have a unique prefix indicating which file they came from, and using
explicit code to move the data from one file to another.

While having screen field names the same as the file may be convenient in
some ways, in others it might not.  For example, if an application allows
updating some of the fields in a record even if others are incorrect, you
would have to do something to store the original values from the file
somewhere and restoring those values to fields that are incorrectly
entered
by a user.  So you end up having unique names anyway.

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Peter Dow
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----- Original Message -----
From: <rob@dekko.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: Same prefixes (was Re: It's That Time Again! etc.)


> Yes it might be a challenge to remember where a field value changed if
the
> field was named the same on the screen as in the file.  However, anyone
> experienced in screen programming should be able to handle that.  Are
you
> saying that would be trickier than, oh let's say, a field whose value
> changed because the pointer that it's data structure is based on was
> changed?    :-)



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