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how to assign formField as a vairable?

bonnieatcds

Hello,

Here is what I want to do --

In my "hiCreateAppForm", I defined as following:

myMainForm->matchBusReportField1->choices = abcGlobal->resultList1

myMainForm->matchBusReportField2->choices = abcGlobal->resultList2

...

myMainForm->matchBusReportField8->choices = abcGlobal->resultList8

n=0

foreach(o busNList

n=n+1

stringToSymbol(strcat("abcGlobal->resultList" sprintf(nil "%L" n)))=subProgram(o)

stringToSymbol(strcat("myMainForm->matchBusReportField" sprintf(nil "%L" n) "->choices"))=stringToSymbol(strcat("abcGlobal->resultList" sprintf(nil "%L" n)))

)

I failed. The above approach is not correct, then how do I do it? The length of "busNList" is a varable.

Please help!

Thanks,

Bonnie

 

 

  • Bonnie,

    The two assignments in the loop should be something like this:

    result=subProgram(o)
    putprop(abcGlobal result concat('resultList n))
    get(myMainForm concat('matchBusReportField n))->choices=result

    Note that I could have avoided storing the intermediate result in a variable (result) but it actually makes the code a bit simpler because otherwise you ended up looking it back up from the abcGlobal again.

    Note the above is completely untested, but I think it should work OK.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Hi Andrew,

    Thank you for your promptly response!

    Now I got following:
    *Error* putprop: first arg must be either symbol, list, defstruct or user type – nil.

    Is that because that my “foreach” is in a separated (…CB) procedure?

    Regards,
    Bonnie
  • And I also change it to: get('myMainForm concat('matchBusReportField n))->choices=result Still got same error. Thanks, Bonnie

  • Hi Bonnie,

    your second update suggests that the issue is with "get('myMainForm ..." - try changing it to this: "get(myMainForm ..." (remove the single quote)

    Best regards,

    Lawrence.

  • The error is with the putprop line, can you paste what you have for that?
  • sorry, I was wrong with"get....": putprop(sdnaGlobal Computation_for_net concat('reultList n)) or
    putprop('sdnaGlobal Computation_for_net concat('reultList n))

    same error:
    \e *Error* putprop: first arg must be either symbol, list, defstruct or user type - nil

  • Bonnie,

    This doesn't make much sense - it's really hard to tell without seeing the rest of the code. However, you should be able to figure this out yourself - either using the SKILL IDE (if you have a SKILL Development license), or simply by putting print statements in the code.

    The key thing here is what is sdnaGlobal set to before the putprop is called? If it is in fact nil, then it's not surprising that the error occurs. You need to have some kind of data structure (e.g. a DPL, a defstruct instance, a table - numerous others) which allow you to store properties on the object.

    I don't think you want to quote the symbol (your second example) - although not knowing how your code is using this global, it's hard to be sure. However, if you did indeed quote the sdnaGlobal, i.e. 'sdnaGlobal then it wouldn't have given that error. It might not have been what you want, but it shouldn't have given that error. So was it really failing in that line in the code?

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Hi Andrew and Lawrence, It works now!! (it was my typo for error on "putprop" ) Thank you very much for the help!! Bonnie

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