JMP Mail Archive: Re: JMP> Resource table entry

Re: JMP> Resource table entry

Tom Hastings (hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:29:57 PST

Some minor tweaks on what Ira said.

Tom

At 12:59 03/01/97 PST, Ira Mcdonald x10962 wrote:
>Hi Harry,
>
>I would THINK that the order of the indices for the Resource Table
>should be
>INDEX { jmJobSetIndex,
> jmJobIdentifier,
which we are calling jmJobIndex

> jmResourceType,
> jmResourceIndex }
>
>Therefore, yes the table contents should be
>
>jmResourceType -- first, because it's the leftmost self-index object
>jmResourceIndex
>jmResourceUnits
We agreed to get rid of the units object as well and make the units
be specified by the jmResourceType. This may increase the number of
enums slightly, for when we want to have more than one kind of units
for some information, such as time (ticks and DateAndTime). But its clearer
and simpler.

>jmResourceValueAsInteger
>jmResourceValueAsText
>
>Cheers,
>- Ira McDonald
>
>PS - The 4-deep Resource indices was originally my suggestion to
>Tom Hastings, here at Xerox.
>
>
>