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                      7: \pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600\f0\b\i0\ulnone\fs36\fc0\cf0 TableViewExample
                      8: \b0\fs24 \
                      9: by Mai Nguyen, NeXT Developer Support Team\
                     10: \
                     11: 
                     12: \b\fs28 Overview
                     13: \b0\fs24 \
                     14: \
                     15: In order to run this example, you need to have a Sybase server with a pubs database installed. This example uses the 
                     16: \b SybaseDemo.dbmodela
                     17: \b0  model file (also available under /NextDeveloper/Examples/DatabaseKit/Models).\
                     18: 
                     19: \i For Oracle users, you can modify the TableViewController.m file to comment out  #define SYBASE_DEMO  and recompile the application.\
                     20: \
                     21: 
                     22: \i0 This example shows how you can define a DBTableView and a DBModule programmatically instead of using the corresponding Interface Builder UI Objects . 
                     23: \fc1\cf1  It also shows how you can change the sort order every time the columns in the tableview are rearranged. The sort property is determined by the identifiers of the tableview columns.\
                     24: 
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                     26: 
                     27: \b\fs28\fc1\cf1 Program Organization
                     28: \b0\fs24 \
                     29: \
                     30: 
                     31: \b Major Classes in the Application
                     32: \b0 \
                     33: \
                     34:  \
                     35: 
                     36: \pard\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600\fi-1900\li1900\fc1\cf1 TableViewController        A general manager object.  A subclass of the Object class.  Performs miscellaneous              initialzations for the DBModule and DBTableView objects. \
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                     41: \pard\tx960\tx1920\tx2880\tx3840\tx4800\tx5760\tx6720\tx7680\tx8640\tx9600\b\fc1\cf1 Other Peculiarities
                     42: \b0 \
                     43: In order to load an Adaptor dynamically, you need to add the
                     44: \b  OTHER_LDFLAGS
                     45: \b0  definition (see the 
                     46: \b Makefile.preamble
                     47: \b0 ). You also need to add the
                     48: \b  libdbkit_s.a
                     49: \b0  library into your
                     50: \b  PB.project
                     51: \b0  under 
                     52: \b libraries
                     53: \b0  in order to use the DBKit API. \
                     54: \
                     55: 
                     56: \b\fs28 Topics Of Interest
                     57: \b0\fs24 \
                     58: 
                     59: \pard\tx520\tx1060\tx1600\tx2120\tx2660\tx3200\tx3720\tx4260\tx4800\tx5320\b\fc1\cf1 \
                     60: - How to get all the attributes from an entity and the sub-attributes that belongs to a one-to-one relationship of\
                     61:   that same entity 
                     62: \b0 \
                     63: See the method 
                     64: \b initTableView: 
                     65: \b0 in the file TableViewController.m.\
                     66: 
                     67: \f2\fs28 \
                     68: 
                     69: \f0\b\fs24 - How to make a fetchgroup become the datasource of the tableview by using the method \
                     70:    makeAssociationFrom:
                     71: \b0 \
                     72: See the method 
                     73: \b initTableView:
                     74: \b0  in the file TableViewController.m\
                     75: 
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                     77: - 
                     78: \b How to replicate the IB connections to a tableview by using DBExpressions\
                     79: 
                     80: \b0 See the method  
                     81: \b addTableColumn
                     82: \b0  in the file TableViewController.m\
                     83: \
                     84: \
                     85: 
                     86: \pard\tx1140\tx2300\tx3440\tx4600\tx5760\tx6900\tx8060\tx9200\tx10360\tx11520\b\fs28\fc1\cf1 Change History
                     87: \b0\fs24 \
                     88: February 1993          Updated for 3.1
                     89: }

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