Re: sql*forms question from a newbie

Hi,

Open, List & Save all apply to saved/saving forms in the database. Load refers to forms in the filesystem.
So, if you have an inp-file, you have to load it. When you want to save it as a file, you have to File/Generate it. BTW, after you save your form into the database, you have to Delete it, before you can save it again.

HTH Frank

Martin Meadows <mmeadows_at_indy.net> wrote:

>Which guru among you can explain sqlforms30 Open, Load & Help/List
>Forms?
 

>Here's what I know: if I have "the_screen.inp", for example, file in a
>unix dir and I cd to that directory, and then run sqlforms30, I can not
>use help/list form to see the name of the thing & I also cannot Open the
>thing. I can, however, load it. Once I've loaded it, I know I can use
>image/painter & work with it. This I learned without the benefit of
>tutorial or text.
 

>After I made a change to the_screen.inp I saved it. I then exited
>sqlforms30 and restarted it to see what I could see. I now have
>"the_screen" in my help/list forms
>output & can select it ... but I'm not sure what selecting it actually
>does. I can now
>also "open" the_screen but again, I'm not sure what this is doing.
>Finally, when I "load" the_screen & use image/painter it shows me my
>original screen without the changes I made earlier.
 

>Where did my new version of the_screen go? How do I save the_screen.inp
>over the top of the_screen.inp file that's in the unix directory that
>I'm in?
 

>Thanks for your assistance,
>Martin Meadows
Received on Mon Mar 16 1998 - 00:00:00 CST