Forms 3 procedures documentation vs practice

From: Chris Eastwood <c.eastwood_at_gu.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 06:18:11 GMT
Message-ID: <6m2eat$45a$1_at_kraken.itc.gu.edu.au>

HiYa

I am interested to know why in the manual about referencing fields in a procedure it says:

if you are referencing the name of a form, block, or field, enclose the object in single quotes. Do not prefix the object with a colon:

[Quoted] and then gives the example of to navigate to a field

GO_FIELD('EMPNO'); but in my experience of things I have to use :blockname.fieldname

IE

PR_SF00_APPEND_CENTURY ( :MAIN.PYMNT_RCVD_DATE ); I've always wondered about this.

Thanks

See Ya
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Chris Eastwood

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