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table,” or press “tab (space-4-5)” repeatedly to move to the “set
default table” button and press “enter.” Or you can press “enter” on
the name of the table in the “table name” list. Then, you will get a
message saying that the table is set as the default table, and the
“table manager” dialog box will be closed.
14.2 Add Record
You can use this option to add information to a table that you have
created. When the database manager is started, the “search
records” dialog box will be opened at first. To open the “add record”
dialog box, press “space-m (dots 1-3-4)” to open the menu, and press
“enter” on “add record.” Or instead of using the menu, you can just
press “enter-i (dots 2-4).” You can think of a record as a collection of
information (fields) for an object (record). Let’s consider the
“addressbook” table you created in the previous section. Adding
records to this table can be performed as follows.
1) Press “space-m (dots 1-3-4)” or F2 to open the menu, and press
“enter” on “add record.” Or instead of using the menu, just press
“enter-i (dots 2-4).”
2) Then the “name” field, the first field in the “addressbook” table, will
be shown. Here, you type the name you want to add, and press
“tab (space-4-5).”
3) Then, the “telephone” field will be focused. Here, type the phone
number. Since this field is of “number” type, you can type only a
limited set of characters such as numbers and hyphen. You can
enter a number without the leading number sign. If you press
“space” instead of – (hyphen), the hyphen will be entered.
4) Press “tab (space-4-5)” to move to the “address” field. Type the
address.
5) Press “tab (space-4-5)” to move to the “memo” field. Since this
field is of “multi edit box” type, you can type multiple lines. To start
a new line, press “enter.”
6) Press “tab (space-4-5)” to move to the “confirm” button. If you
press “enter” here, the one record that you have just entered will
be added to the table. If you do not want to save the record you
have just typed in, press “tab (space-4-5)” once more to move to
the “cancel” button, and press “enter.” Or you can just press
“space-e (dots 1-5).”