Bram,

You need to include a special little feature that I am finishing up in IBO
v4. I already have quite a bit of the work in 3.6 already.

To test it out try adding the following param attribute entry in your
OrderingLinks property:

If you have an entry that looks like this:

STREET=1

or this:

STREET=ITEM=1

Then make it look like this:

STREET=ITEM=1;POS=0

I am assuming that you are using the 1st entry in the OrderingItems list. If
not, simply use whatever item you have entered.

This new feature hinges on the POS attribute being included. It should make
it so that incremental searching is reasonably efficient on a LAN. I don't
think it would be advisable on a slow dialup link though. Just for kicks,
try it if you like, it should still be somewhat feasible.

With IBO v4 this will be fully implemented so that the dataset appears
exactly as it would normally. For now what is incomplete in the 3.6 version
is that the top of your dataset (BOF) gets launched out into the middle of
the actual dataset somewhere. You get to the records you want more quickly
but the "wholeness" of the dataset is lost.

Let me know how it goes.

PS. In case people are wondering what is holding IBO v4 BETA release up, I
am having absolute fits getting the TCustomGrid class to behave so that I
can accommodate the buffering enhancements required to preserve all current
functionality and add in the new functionality I am planning on. I am just
about ready to hack the class to force it to behave or beef up the
TIB_Ledger control so that I can have full control over what my grid does.

Regards,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bram" <bram@...>
To: <IBObjects@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:45 AM
Subject: [IBO] increment search


> D5/IBO3.6
> I followed the increment search example in the getting started guide. I
have
> an table with 500.000 rows. I know I maybe trying to do something not C/S
> wise but I just test what the limits are. The table has an field called
> street with contains all streets in the Netherlands. I tried to do an
> incrementel search on this field. If I press B as first letter I get an
row
> fetch for about 75.000 rows. Is this what I should expect?
>
> Bram van der Voet
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