GlobalTables

Hello!! I want to know if there is a command to create a global table. I want to create some global tables by code, but I dindn't found any command.
Is there any command for this purpose?

Thank you a lot!!!

Hi,

What I know, there is no command to create a GlobalTable.
You can do your own User Command that creates a GlobalTable.

Take a look at the nodefunction addglobaltable, you will find the function under View->nodefunctions->menucommands in the tree.

Example code:

string tableName=parstr(1);
if (not(objectexists(node("/Tools",model()))))
{
  nodeinsertinto(model());
  setname(last(model()),"Tools");
}
if (not(objectexists(node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model()))))
{
  nodeinsertinto(node("/Tools",model()));
  setname(last(node("/Tools",model())),"GlobalTables");
}
createinstance(
  node("/GlobalTable",library()),
  node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model())
);
treenode table=last( node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model()));
setname(table,tableName);
settable(var_s(last(node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model())),"data"),1,1,1,0);
updatetoolsmenu();

Lars-Olof

Thanks you a lot !!

Originally Posted by Lars-Olof Leven

Hi,

What I know, there is no command to create a GlobalTable.
You can do your own User Command that creates a GlobalTable.

Take a look at the nodefunction addglobaltable, you will find the function under View->nodefunctions->menucommands in the tree.

Example code:

string tableName=parstr(1);
if (not(objectexists(node("/Tools",model()))))
{
  nodeinsertinto(model());
  setname(last(model()),"Tools");
}
if (not(objectexists(node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model()))))
{
  nodeinsertinto(node("/Tools",model()));
  setname(last(node("/Tools",model())),"GlobalTables");
}
createinstance(
  node("/GlobalTable",library()),
  node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model())
);
treenode table=last( node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model()));
setname(table,tableName);
settable(var_s(last(node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model())),"data"),1,1,1,0);
updatetoolsmenu();

Lars-Olof

Hi

I would like to create a few gloabl tables by code, and i did have a look at your code mentioned above, but i still havent understood how i could use it.

I would like to create global table

EXAMPLE:
addglobaltable("mytable",2,4,1)

where no : of rows = 2
no: of colmns = 4
data type = integer (1)

How could i do this with your code....
please help !!!!

I copied the code into a user command and added rows, cols, and datatype as parameters.

If you want to create many tables at once, for efficiency maybe don't call updatetoolsmenu() until all have been created. And the first 2 ifs only need to be checked once.

string tablename = parstr(1);
int rows = parval(2);
int cols = parval(3);
int datatype = parval(4);
if (not(objectexists(node("/Tools",model()))))
{
  nodeinsertinto(model());
  setname(last(model()),"Tools");
}
if (not(objectexists(node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model()))))
{
  nodeinsertinto(node("/Tools",model()));
  setname(last(node("/Tools",model())),"GlobalTables");
}
createinstance(
  node("/GlobalTable",library()),
  node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model())
);
treenode table = last(node("/Tools/GlobalTables",model()));
treenode tabledatanode = var_s(table,"data");
settablesize(tabledatanode,rows,cols,datatype,0);
//setname(first(tabledatanode),"Row 1");
//setname(first(first(tabledatanode)),"Col 1");
updatetoolsmenu();

This is the code what i used -

addglobaltable("PeopleCount",2,3,1);

And this is the warning message i am getting

Warning VIEW:/active/scriptinputconsole120609472/script>curtext line 2 Too many parameters in call to addglobaltable
Warning line 2 Too many parameters in call to addglobaltable

Could some one please help me on this, it a bit urgent.

Thanks

The error indicates that you have an error on line 2 of your script window. When I open a new script window and write only:

addglobaltable("PeopleCount",2,3,1);

...then it works fine.

I attached an update that sets the name of the GlobalTable as specified in the first parameter. I don't know why it was not done in the first version.

Flexscript is strongly typed now. What you specify as the parameter list for User Commands makes a difference.

Make sure you have the parameters for that user command that Kris has:
(str tablename, num rows, num cols, num datatype)

Kris, may be you can repose this as Tips in the other section? I really benefit for those who are search for such tips.

Thanks

David