Subject Re: allowing user to change or add an alias From Ken Mayer <dbase@nospam.goldenstag.net> Date Mon, 19 Jun 2017 05:30:51 -0700 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 6/19/2017 3:32 AM, Charlie wrote: > Hi Akshat, > > Thanks very much for the information.  I have tried this and understand it much better now. > > I think that I may have a big problem although am not sure. > > The vast majority of my forms are oodml.  However the vast majority of my programs are xdml. > > Unless I misunderstand, I don't see a way of getting this to work with my xdml programs.  Am I correct? > In your programs you can mix OODML and XDML. The code for the dUFLP in BDEAlias.cc is OODML, but once you have that, you can use database aliases in your XDML code: use :myalias:mytable order whatever BDE Aliases work fine with XDML. Ken -- *Ken Mayer* Ken's dBASE Page: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase The dUFLP: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/index.htm#duflp dBASE Books: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Books/dBASEBooks.htm