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Accessing cellview ID which is stored as a string

RK56

Hi,

I'm into a situation now that I have stored a database ID (cellview or object ID) as a string. Like this

a = sprintf(nil, "%L" geGetEditCellView())

b = sprintf(nil, "%s" car(geGetSelSet()))

Now I am trying to access the cellview ID through the variable a or b as follows

evalstring(a)~>cellName

evalstring(b)~>width

Evalstring does not work here. Is there any other function which can do this job?

Why am I doing this?

Say I want to store some layout objects ID inside a report field along with other information. And when user clicks any row in the reportField, the CB should be able to zoom to that particular object.

Is this is a right approach or are there any other elegant way of doing this?

Thanks

Ramakrishnan

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  • Thanks Andrew. I had the idea of creating a table but to keep it as a global variable. I was not knowing that we can add a user defined property to the hi*fields. Should I be using putpropq and getq functions?

    By adding extra properties to reportfield, can the GUI go slower(less responsive) if the attached table grows in size?

    -Ramakrishnan
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  • Thanks Andrew. I had the idea of creating a table but to keep it as a global variable. I was not knowing that we can add a user defined property to the hi*fields. Should I be using putpropq and getq functions?

    By adding extra properties to reportfield, can the GUI go slower(less responsive) if the attached table grows in size?

    -Ramakrishnan
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