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AppBuilder
Developer’s Guide


Basic Data Browsers

In addition to the SmartDataBrowser, AppBuilder supplies the basic 4GL Data Browser (Browse widget), with its built-in query feature. Like the SmartDataBrowser, a basic Data Browser presents the results of a query in simple row/column tabular format. Each row displayed in a Browse always represents one record from the data stream. Each column represents one of the fields in the records. The Browse object can display any of the standard data types that can be represented by ASCII text.

Unlike a SmartDataBrowser, the basic Browse object manages its own data stream, communicating with the data source on its own behalf rather than tapping into the data stream supplied by a modular data pump such as the SmartDataObject.

Although you can freely place a basic Browse object in a Smart workspace, for example a SmartWindow, doing so will not enable it to take advantage of SmartLinks or participate in ADM paging.


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