Executes a command against a target server or executes a remote procedure on a Zim Server. Syntax 1 Parameters server Any character string expression that evaluates to “ZIMSERV”, “JDBCSAM” or an alias name representing a valid server name to which the application is already connected. expression Any value expression. Syntax 2 Parameters Server Any character…
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Changes the settings of certain device properties of the registry variables file. Syntax $setproperty(section, property, newsetting) Parameters section A character string or an expression that evaluates to a character string to indicate the group of properties or registry values that should be changed. property A character string or an expression that evaluates to a character…
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A data structure that provides information about the state of the system and the most recent event. The Event data structure provides information about the most recent event and about the state of the system when that event occurred. The components of the Event data structure are set when an event occurs in the user…
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A data structure that provides information about the state of the current form at the time of the last event in the current window. The ThisForm data structure provides information about the state of the current form at the time of the last event in the current window. The ThisForm structure contains a number of…
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Adds data to EntitySets or relationships. Syntax #1 Adds a single record to an EntitySet or relationship. Use the LET subcommand to explicitly assign values to the target fields in the record. ADD objname [LET clause] [EVALUATE clause] [-> clause] Syntax #2 Adds one or more records from a set specification to an EntitySet or…
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ThisWindow A data structure that provides information about the state of the system and of the current window at the time of the last event in that window. The ThisWindow data structure provides information about the state of the system and of the current window at the time of the last event in that window.…
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Changes data in EntitySets, relationships, forms, or result sets. Syntax #1 Changes specific fields in one or more records in an EntitySet, relationship, form, or set. The existing values in target fields are changed to specified values. The LET subcommand explicitly assigns values to the target fields. Only fields explicitly named in the LET subcommand…
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These numeric constants are in Zim’s data dictionary. They can be used instead of the number value to make your code more readable. Color Constant Name Value Color Constant Name Value Inherited from the parent 0 cInactiveCaptionTxt 19 Black 1 cWindowText 20 Blue 2 cWindowFrame 21 Green 3 cScrollBarColor 22 Cyan 4 cMenuTextColor 23 Red…
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Certain characters and words are reserved for special purposes in the Zim software. Reserved Characters These characters are sometimes called meta-characters. Reserved characters include quotation marks (” and ‘) that define and enclose character strings spaces that are the default field separator (delimiter) backslashes () that escape other characters percent signs (%) that mark the…
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Extracts the year number associated with a specified date value. Syntax $year(date) Parameters date a data, or an expression that evaluates to a date, in the form YYYYMMDD Return Value Character string. Comments This function extracts day information from standard date values. Date is often the system variable $Date. Example $year(19981225) Evaluates to “1998”. $year($date…
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