IPB_Session interface:

GetSharedVarType method

Description

Obtains the datatype of the specified shared variable.

Syntax

GetSharedVarType ( pbgroup <span>group</span>, pbfieldID <span>fid</span><span></span> )

1	GetSharedVarType ( pbgroup <span>group</span>, pbfieldID <span>fid</span><span></span> )

Argument	Description
group	The group to which the shared variable belongs
fid	The internal field ID of the shared variable

Return Values

pbuint. A simple datatype defined in
the list of pbvalue_type enumerated
types.

Examples

This example gets the field ID of a shared variable,
then uses that ID to get the type of the shared variable:

pbuint pbvaltype;

1	pbuint pbvaltype;

curGroup = session -&gt; GetCurrGroup();<br>fid = session -&gt; GetSharedVarID(curGroup,"i_svar");<br>pbvaltype = session -&gt; <span>GetSharedVarType</span>(curGroup, fid);

1	curGroup = session -> GetCurrGroup();<br>fid = session -> GetSharedVarID(curGroup,"i_svar");<br>pbvaltype = session -> <span>GetSharedVarType</span>(curGroup, fid);

August 13, 2023

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