GetSharedVarType

PowerBuilder Native Interface

IPB_Session interface:

GetSharedVarType method

Description

Obtains the datatype of the specified shared variable.

Syntax

GetSharedVarType ( pbgroup group, pbfieldID fid ) 

Argument

Description

group

The group to which the shared variable belongs

fid

The internal field ID of the shared variable

Return Values

pbuint. A simple datatype defined in the list of pbvalue_type enumerated types.

Examples

This example gets the field ID of a shared variable, then uses that ID to get the type of the shared variable:

pbuint pbvaltype;
curGroup = session -> GetCurrGroup();
fid = session -> GetSharedVarID(curGroup,"i_svar");
pbvaltype = session -> GetSharedVarType(curGroup, fid);

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