cMemoName

Specifies the name of the Memo field to be fetched in the current record of the cursor associated with the CursorAdapter object.

Applies To: CursorAdapter Class

When the FetchMemo Property is set to False (.F.), the ability to perform a delayed Memo fetch is enabled. A delayed Memo fetch prevents the contents of Memo fields from being updated during CursorFill and CursorRefresh method calls. An attempt to fetch content for a Memo field is done when the application attempts to access that field's value. The following four CursorAdapter members enable you to use delayed Memo fetching.

• DelayedMemoFetch Method
  
  
• FetchMemoDataSourceType Property
  
  
• FetchMemoDataSource Property
  
  
• FetchMemoCmdList Property
  
  

The DelayedMemoFetch method performs a delayed memo fetch for the Memo field cMemoName in the current record. This method will return the contents of the specified Memo field. An error is raised if the data cannot be retrieved.

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For delayed Memo fetch to work with a CursorAdapter, the associated cursor should be opened in exclusive mode.

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The DelayedMemoFetch method should never be called other than to perform a delayed Memo fetch. Under no circumstances should this method change the current record.

To allow access to data in the target record, Visual FoxPro opens a read-only cursor with the target record as the current record. This read-only cursor is opened exclusively, and its alias is contained in the RefreshAlias property. If the RefreshAlias property is empty, then the DelayedMemoFetch method was not invoked by the Visual FoxPro data engine.

You can return the contents of a General field using DelayedMemoFetch. To do so, you need to convert the field contents to a Blob using the CAST( ) Function.

The following sample shows using DelayedMemoFetch to retrieve Memo and General field data from the Northwind Categories table via the Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider.

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CLOSE DATABASES all CLEAR LOCAL oCA as CursorAdapter LOCAL oConn AS ADODB.Connection LOCAL oRS AS ADODB.Recordset LOCAL cConnStr,lcNorthwindFile lcNorthwindFile = HOME()+"Samples\Northwind\northwind.dbc" cConnStr = [Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data Source=&lcNorthwindFile.;Password="";Collating Sequence=MACHINE] oConn = createobject('ADODB.Connection') oConn.Open(cConnStr) oRS = CREATEOBJECT("ADODB.Recordset") oRS.ActiveConnection = oConn oRS.CursorLocation = 3 && adUseClient oRS.CursorType = 3&& adOpenStatic oRS.LockType = 3&& adLockOptimistic oCA=CREATEOBJECT("CADelayedFetch") oCA.DataSource=oRS IF !oCA.CursorFill() AERROR(aerrs) DISPLAY MEMORY LIKE aerrs RETURN ENDIF GO TOP BROWSE DEFINE CLASS CADelayedFetch AS CursorAdapter FetchMemo=.F. DataSourceType="ADO" SelectCmd="SELECT * from categories" CursorSchema="categoryid i, categoryname c(15), description m, picture g" UseCursorSchema=.T. FUNCTION DelayedMemoFetch(cFieldName) NODEFAULT IF UPPER(cFieldName)==UPPER("picture") RETURN CAST(DODEFAULT(cFieldName) as W) ENDIF RETURN [Modified value:] + DODEFAULT(cFieldName) ENDFUNC ENDDEFINE