Hi
I wondered if there was a forum topic to follow the progress that you and Matt are making with the helper
Phillip

Perfect , Thankyou very much

Hi Matt
I'm OK with XSI, I've been running that OK
I was asking about the example code listed by Karl above (xDBF.prgx)
Can I run that code inside of VS or XIDE ?

Hi Karl
I tried running this in XIDE and get an error
error XS9002: Parser: mismatched input '#R'
Please can you let me know where you are running the prg
RE xDBF.prgx above

Thanks very much that was really helpful

This is looking really interesting, very keen to follow this thread

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