No Duplicate in Quick

[Bickel, Jon]

Brian,

We endeavor to keep this list flame free.
(And it looks like a fine solution to the original question to me anyway.)

jb


-----Original Message-----
From: brian_matthewsbrian matthews
[mailto:brian_matthews_bmw@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 5:01 PM
To: pfbcs@hotmail.com; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: No Duplicate in Quick


dude, how you got to this solution from the question put to the list is 
beyond me, I hope this guy is never in the position of evaluating my 
performance as a developer !

>From: "Peter Bateman" <pfbcs@hotmail.com>
>To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
>Subject: RE: No Duplicate in Quick
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:02:29 -0300
>
>Georgia:
>
>  The DUPLICATE KEY ( default '_' ) is an entry shortcut.
>
>  So your users could simply enter the previous entry instead of using the 
>shortcut.
>
>  I think what I would do is give a warning instead of an error.
>
>  e.g.
>
>  Say first and lastname are fields that we want to warn our users about.
>
>  Temp t_FIRST char * 40 reset at startup
>  Temp t_LAST char * 40  reset at startup
>
>
>  Procedure EDIT FIRST_NAME
>  Begin
>
>    If t_FIRST = FIRST_NAME
>      then warning "*W* First name repeated. Enter \ to correct."
>End
>Procedure PROCESS FIRST_NAME
>Begin
>    Let t_FIRST = FIRST_NAME
>End
>
>  Procedure EDIT LAST_NAME
>  Begin
>
>    If t_LAST = LAST_NAME
>      then warning "*W* LAST name repeated. Enter \ to correct."
>End
>Procedure PROCESS LAST_NAME
>Begin
>    Let t_LAST = LAST_NAME
>End
>
>Regards,
>Peter Bateman
>
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