BDE Function Reference > Cursor functions

Each Borland Database Engine (BDE) function listed below returns information about a cursor, or performs a task that performs a cursor-related task such as positioning of a cursor, linking of cursors, creating and closing cursors, counting of records associated with a cursor, filtering, setting and comparing bookmarks, and refreshing all buffers associated with a cursor.

Function	Description
DbiActivateFilter	Activates a filter.
DbiAddFilter	Adds a filter to a table, but does not activate the filter (the record set is not yet altered).
DbiApplyDelayedUpdates	When cached updates cursor layer is active, writes all modifications made to cached data to the underlying database.
DbiBeginDelayedUpdates	Creates a cached updates cursor layer so that users can make extended changes to temporarily cached table data without writing to the actual table, thereby minimizing resource locking.
DbiBeginLinkMode	Converts a cursor to a link cursor. Given an open cursor, prepares for linked access. Returns a new cursor.
DbiCloneCursor	Creates a new cursor (clone cursor) which has the same result set as the given cursor (source cursor).
DbiCloseCursor	Closes a previously opened cursor.
DbiCompareBookMarks	Compares the relative positions of two bookmarks in the result set associated with the cursor.
DbiDeactivateFilter	Temporarily stops the specified filter from affecting the record set by turning the filter off.
DbiDropFilter	Deactivates and removes a filter from memory, and frees all resources.
DbiEndDelayedUpdates	Closes a cached updates cursor layer ending the cached updates mode.
DbiEndLinkMode	Ends linked cursor mode, and returns the original cursor.
DbiExtractKey	Retrieves the key value for the current record of the given cursor or from the supplied record buffer.
DbiForceRecordReread	Rereads a single record from the server on demand, refreshing one row only, rather than clearing the cache.
DbiForceReread	Refreshes all buffers associated with the cursor, if necessary.
DbiFormFullName	Returns the fully qualified table name.
DbiGetBookMark	Saves the current position of a cursor to the client-supplied buffer called a bookmark.
DbiGetCursorForTable	Finds the cursor for the given table.
DbiGetCursorProps	Returns the properties of the cursor.
DbiGetExactRecordCount	Retrieves the current exact number of records associated with the cursor.
DbiGetFieldDescs	Retrieves a list of descriptors for all the fields in the table associated with the cursor.
DbiGetLinkStatus	Returns the link status of the cursor.
DbiGetNextRecord	Retrieves the next record in the table associated with the cursor.
DbiGetPriorRecord	Retrieves the previous record in the table associated with the given cursor.
DbiGetProp	Returns a property of an object.
DbiGetRecord	Retrieves the current record, if any, in the table associated with the cursor.
DbiGetRecordCount	Retrieves the current number of records associated with the cursor.
DbiGetRecordForKey	Finds and retrieves a record matching a key and positions the cursor on that record.
DbiGetRelativeRecord	Positions the cursor on a record in the table relative to the current position of the cursor.
DbiGetSeqNo	Retrieves the sequence number of the current record in the table associated with the cursor.
DbiLinkDetail	Establishes a link between two tables such that the detail table has its record set limited to the set of records matching the linking key values of the master table cursor.
DbiLinkDetailToExp	Links the detail cursor to the master cursor using an expression.
DbiMakePermanent	Changes a temporary table created by DbiCreateTempTable into a permanent table.
DbiOpenTable	Opens the given table for access and associates a cursor handle with the opened table.
DbiResetRange	Removes the specified table's limited range previously established by the function DbiSetRange.
DbiSaveChanges	Forces all updated records associated with the cursor to disk.
DbiSetFieldMap	Sets a field map of the table associated with the given cursor.
DbiSetProp	Sets the specified property of an object to a given value.
DbiSetRange	Sets a range on the result set associated with the cursor.
DbiSetToBegin	Positions the cursor to BOF (just before the first record).
DbiSetToBookMark	Positions the cursor to the location saved in the specified bookmark.
DbiSetToCursor	Sets the position of one cursor (the destination cursor) to that of another (the source cursor).
DbiSetToEnd	Positions the cursor to EOF (just after the last record).
DbiSetToKey	Positions an index-based cursor on a key value.
DbiSetToRecordNo	Positions the cursor of a dBASE or FoxPro table to the given physical record number.
DbiSetToSeqNo	Positions the cursor to the specified sequence number of a Paradox table.
DbiUnlinkDetail	Removes a link between two cursors.