FILL-MODE attribute of ProDataset

Posted by Admin on 27-Jul-2010 06:40

The documentation lists the FILL-MODE attribute only for ProDataset member buffers. But in fact it's accessible for the ProDataset itself:

          MESSAGE DATASET dsCustomer:FILL-MODE  SKIP

                CAN-SET (DATASET dsCustomer:HANDLE, "FILL-MODE")

                CAN-QUERY (DATASET dsCustomer:HANDLE, "FILL-MODE")

              VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK.

This retruns MERGE yes yes,

Is there any documentation on the behavior of the FILL-MODE attribute on the ProDataset? Does this set the default for all buffers where I haven't set this previously or does that override the buffer's FILL-MODE setting?

10.2B and 10.2B01, when that's relevant.

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Posted by Admin on 27-Jul-2010 06:53

A bit more investigation has shown, that setting the FILL-MODE of the ProDataset set's the FILL-MODE for all member buffers to the same value.

The FILL-MODE of the ProDataset returns the FILL-MODE of the member buffers when all buffers FILL-MODEs have identical value.

The FILL-MODE of the ProDataset returns ? when the buffers have different FILL-MODEs.

Sounds like a useful implementation, still I'm curious if it's documented somewhere.

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