01 Sep 2006 

This text was originally written while V2004 was the most current 4D-version.

One, two, three is a Billy Wilder movie from 1961.

1-2-3 was a spreadsheet from Lotus, which took the marketlead from VisiCalc, until MicroSsoft found ways the dethrone 1-2-3 by Excel.

1 2 3 yealds 12.020.000.000 results from Google.

1 2 3 is my standardcount of parameter for most methods nowadays. Either 1 or 2 or 3 parameters. Those three are:

• one : "What shall be done", a text
• two : the object involved, a pointer
• three : my unique ID of a record, a longint

Those three are sufficient most of the time. Have you already read this text Keep every piece of code at one place only?

It looks like a

Shrinkwrap

Everything is contained in one methode-package. At any time I can add new functionality or reorganize an existing one.

In comparison to a 4D-component,

• encapsulating effect,
• creation and clean up at the same level,
• processvariables are nearly as efficient as local variables,
and the most important plus
• it needs no 4D Insider,

and for those who need
• its the main entrance for a API to access the database.

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