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 Introducing PTWin32 |
When
you ask PTWin to access your records it makes copies of sections of your
database tables and loads them into the memory of your computer. Any changes you
make are carried out upon these copies of records. The copies are not integrated
into your database tables until they are Posted.
When
you want to accept changes to a record and commit the data into the table you
push the Post button. There are two reasons why you should develop a habit of
pushing the Post button regularly. 1)
Posting your records saves them to the relative safety of your disk drive. If
your computer’s motherboard suddenly loses power any un-posted changes to data
table records will not be in the tables when power is restored. Records stored
in memory are volatile and only exist temporally. 2)
If you are on a network and have changed information in a record, pushing the
Post button will make that information available to other users as quickly as
possible. Remember that they pull their information from the database table not
the memory on your computer. If you haven’t posted it, they can’t get at it. So
get in the habit of pushing that Post button on your PTWin window toolbars and
keep your records as up to date as possible.
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