Re: can i reference the :system variable from inside a package or common lib function?

You can't reference form specific objects from inside of package, because package is stored in the database and know nothing about form itself. So you can't use built-ins either. You can pass value of :system (and any other) variable as a parameter. If you want to have common (used by different forms) code, procedures and functions, put them into .pll libraries. You can use built-ins and any form objects (:system, :global, :block...) in these libraries.

In article <36e8b9da.0_at_news2.tm.net.my>,   "Brandon Lee" <brand_at_tm.net.my> wrote:
> hi anyone,
> i am using dev2k to develop application. is it true that i cannot
> reference any :system variable from inside a package; since i get error
> compiling it? if so, why? is there any way to go round it? what about
> using built-in such as go_block, first_record, next_record?
>
>

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