3.3. Telling RTA About Your Columns and Tables
A table is an array or linked list of data structures. Each member of your data structure is considered to be a column in a table, and each instance of the data structure is considered to be a row. From this point on, when you see the term column, think member of my data structure. In order to make a table visible to clients, you need to describe the table in a way that RTA can understand. This means describing the table as a whole and then describing each column in the table.
A TBLDEF structure describes the table as a whole; it contains a pointer to an array of column definitions with a COLDEF structure to define each column in your data table. At first you may find the process of creating COLDEFs ...
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