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Dictionary Functions

Description

Alpha Anywhere provides the following Dictionary functions.

Name
Description
A5_DICTIONARY_READ Function

Reads a record from a data ditionary. If lBlob is .T., value is returned as a blob. ExtendedAction can be '', 'Rename' or 'SaveAs'

A5_DICTIONARY_WRITE Function

Writes a record to a data ditionary.

a5_dictionaryobject_exists Function

FullyqualifiedObjectname is of form objectname@dictionary. ObjectType = 'report', 'label','letter' etc.

A5_EDIT_USER_DICTIONARY Function

Opens the Edit User Defined List for Spellchecker dialog.

a5_get_dd_name Function

Return the name of the data dictionary

a5_load_udf_from_dict Function

Registers the UDFs stored in an external dictionary

a5_save_bitmap_to_dict Function

Saves a blob variable to the dictionary as a names bitmap

dd_open Function

Opens the data dictionary for the current table, returning the table handle for the data dictionary.

dd_update Function

Perform maintenance on a data dictionary.

USER_DICTIONARY_ADD Function

Add a CR-LF delimted list of words to the User-defined spellchecker dictionary.

USER_DICTIONARY_DELETE Function

Delete a CR-LF delimted list of words to the User-defined spellchecker dictionary.

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