Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
ADM Reference

determineTableType function

Function used to determine what type of table is contained in the handle passed as an input parameter.

Parameters:

phBuffer INPUT HANDLE

Handle to either a temp-table object or a buffer object that contains the parameter values that you want to set.

Returns:

The return values are:

99 — Identifies a table that was previously formatted using one of the setupTTFrom functions.
0 — Identifies a table that has no records in it. The 0 return value is also provided to indicate that there is no need to format the table using a setupTTFrom call.
An integer value corresponding to one of the table types. This value can be:
1 — Stores parameters by position using the native data type.
2 — Stores parameters by position using a character fields.
3 — Stores parameters by name using native data type.
4 — Stores parameters by name using a character field.
Note: For more information, see the "calltables.i" section.

? — If the table type is not recognized.