[Lazarus] Functions, procedures etc for using Dbase3/4 files ... what are they in Lazarus? (I used XBase1 in Delphi 5)

[Peter E Williams]

Hi Joost & All,

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 11:40 +0200, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 14:54 +1000, Peter E Williams wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon Jun 14 18:00:51 CEST 2010, Howard Page-Clark wrote:
> > > For a general introduction have a look at
> > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Database_Tutorial
> > 
> > I have looked at this document
> > 
> > > For using Tdbf have a look at
> > > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Tdbf_Tutorial
> > 
> Dataset.FieldByName('fieldname').AsString;
> Dataset.FieldByName('FieldName').AsString := NewValue;
> Dataset.Append; <nothing in between, so it's blank> Dataset.Post;
> Dataset.RecNo := Rec_No;

I have spent all morning making those changes. Thank you,
Joost !!! :-)))

> 
> 
> But you shouldn't use that. Use bookmarks instead.

Do you have a url for a tutorial about bookmarks or some sample code? I
would really appreciate it.

> Joost.
> 

Peter 

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