BBjKeySegment

Creation

BBjAPI > BBjFileSystem > BBjKeySegment

 

Description

In BBj 6.0 and higher, BBjKeySegment objects are used to construct BBjKeyInfo objects. BBjKeyInfo objects can be used to manipulate VKEYED file key chains dynamically.

Creation

The BBjKeySegment object is created using the following BBjFileSystem method:

Return Value	Method
BBjKeySegment	makeKeySegment(int field, int offset, int length, boolean descending, boolean numeric)

Methods of BBjKeySegment

Return Value	Method
int	getField()
int	getOffset()
int	getLength()
boolean	isBUS()
boolean	isDescending()
boolean	isNumeric()
boolean	isOrderedNumeric()

Remarks

None.

Constants

0x00	INDEXED_FILE
0x01	SERIAL_FILE
0x02	DIRECT_FILE
0x03	STRING_FILE
0x04	BBX_PROGRAM_FILE
0x84	BBJ_PROGRAM_FILE
0x05	DIRECTORY_FILE
0x06	MKEYED_FILE
0x80	MKEYED_4GIG
0x40	MKEYED_RECOVERABLE
0x20	MKEYED_64BIT
0x08	XKEYED_FILE
0x0B	JKEYED_FILE (Deprecated)
0x0D	VKEYED_FILE

Example

rem ' Obtain the instance of the BBjFileSystem object BBjFileSystem! = BBjAPI().getFileSystem() rem ' Create a BBjKeySegment object BBjKeySegment! = BBjFileSystem!.makeKeySegment(0,0,10,0,0) rem ' Create a BBjKeyInfo object BBjKeyInfo! = BBjFileSystem!.makeKeyInfo(BBjKeySegment!,0)

See Also

BBjAPI

BBj Object Variables

BBj Object Assignment

BBj Object Error Handling

BBj Object Operators

See the BBj Object Diagram for an illustration of the relationship between BBj Objects.