Re: [pilot-db-list] Linked and Calculated fields problems

[Scott W. <swa...@ee...>]

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 13:45, Peter Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Great product -- I find it becoming one of my most used Palm apps.
> 

	I'm glad to hear it.  I think db is great, but perhaps I am a little
biased ;)


> However, the field editor won't let me add in the calculation;
> apparently it doesn't recognize the linked-in field as an integer and
> automatically disallows the calculation.  Is there any workaround for
> this, or any plans to change this in a future version?

	Yes, you are correct. The when data is linked into a database it looses
its type information and is basically stored as a string.  Marc has
added some of the code to help change this, but it is still some ways
off.  I don't expect to add it into the 1.1. beta, but if there is
overwhelming interest, I will consider it.  I've put a survey on the
sourceforge site to see what kind of support there is.  This feature is
likely to get added to db eventually, but I will have to look into what
type of changes this requires.

	-Scott

Survey:
https://sourceforge.net/survey/survey.php?group_id=621&survey_id=13740