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J. Erickson
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Is there really much of a difference between:

a computed "stack of X" type stack like

 compute Stack1 / stack of A0;


and a computed stack with 1 column in it:

 compute Stack2.firstColumn / A0;


It seens that Stack2 is more "visible" than Stack1. I have been using a lot of "stack of" type stacks when dealing with form elements like comboboxes, tables, etc.

If it's possible to just create a computed stack with 1 column, is there a specific reason for "stack of" type stacks? Is one suited for certain things better than the other.

I was just curious since I'm using a lot of stacks in my current Maintain project. The manuals don't really talk about creating computed stacks with columns vs. "stack of X" stacks.

Thanks,
James


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Posts: 54 | Location: Everett, WA | Registered: September 27, 2005Report This Post
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James
When it comes right down to it, there is only one kind of stack. However there are a couple of ways to create it. The syntax: COMPUTE STK / STACK OF A0 was our attempt to make the syntax more object oriented. Here are the details...

A stack can contains database fields:

Infer fields into Stack

Computed fields:

Compute stk.field/fmt;

Or any combination of the two.

You can also have a stack that contains HTML as the output from a Table with ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML:

Compute STK.HTML/A200;

Finally, there is a stack that contains output messages from an EXEC'd procedure, and that's FOCMSG.MSG and you don't have to compute or INFER that. I hope this helps.

Mark
 
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