#: 17268 S3/Languages
    19-Dec-92  10:58:38
Sb: #17265-C question
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob,

Yes its for the auto-CIS (auto-Delphi, too) program, which is called InfoXpress
(IX for short). IX is coming along, but slowly. I had thought I would have more
free time to work on it, which just hasn't happened. I was hoping to have a
shareware version available for the CoCo by now. The biggest stumbling block
with the CoCo is the 64K per process limitation, but so far I've managed.

I went back and looked at your suggestion, and you're right, it is compile
time. But when I apply your suggestion to my problem, I end up with run time
code because I'm dealing with pointers to structures that are passed from other
functions. I could copy the passed structure to a local structure and use your
suggestion (I hadn't thought of that until just now).

Pete's suggestion can actually be interpreted as either compile time or run
time, and again, in this particular situation it would be run time.

After asking the question, and further thought on a solution, I think I've
decided to leave it as it is, it will be easier to maintain, and since the
functions involved save and load the configuration file for IX, I expect the
code is going to change frequently.

        -Bill-