Help need on colun "::"

[Hobby]

Help need on colon "::"

Hai,

Can you help me whats the meaning of using ::

Can you please tell any pdf or something where i can get more information on it.

I have seen in some places its used like

Prodataset-handle::buffer-handle.

 

[RealHeavyDude]

It' some kind of shortcut:

Instead of

hbuffer:BUFFER-FIELD ( 'myField' ):BUFFER-VALUE

you can write

hBuffer::myFiled

HTH, RealHeavyDude.

 

[Stefan]

Re: Help need on colon "::"

Its a shortcut so that instead of typing:

hbuffer:BUFFER-FIELD( "customer" ):BUFFER-VALUE = 123

you can type:

hbuffer::customer = 123

This was introduced around 10.1A, with some bugs fixed for unknown value handling in 10.1B.

 

[Hobby]

Thanks RealHeavyDude.

Your are a great help as always.

 

[Hobby]

one doubt..
following is a small piece of code i found somewhere


DEFINE INPUT PARAMETER DATASET-HANDLE hdsQuery .

hdsQuery::tt-as-querydef:find-first().


if hBuffer::myFiled is the shortcut of hbuffer:BUFFER-FIELD ( 'myField' ):BUFFER-VALUE then

hdsQuery::tt-as-querydef:find-first() will be the shorcut of what statement.?

 

[Stefan]

Search progress knowledge base for:

double colon

The first hit is a manual page which also indicates the DataSet:

If the left-side character string is a handle to a container object (buffer, table, or ProDataSet) then it is a named member of the left-side handle which is known at compile time.

So tt-as-querydef is the name of the temp-table in the dataset.