Icarus Class: SrsField

The abstract description of a data-field. The definition is independent from a certain data bank and must be referenced from each field definition of a library format. The purpose of this object is to allow specification of equivalent data-fields among different databanks (eg, 'author name' or 'creation date').

short     Short name (abbreviation) of data-field type. name   Short name of data-field type. is DataType     Field descriptors may optionally point to a data type which links any data bank with a field of this type to a list of applications which operate on the linked data type. pargroup   100000   Parameter group. type     show header id str link num real group   The type of the field type. At the moment only 'header' is used. The other types should be used to enforce a certain type on all the library fields referencing them. isGroup   no   no yes   Field type can be single ('no') or group of other field types ('yes') group SrsField     Pointer to the field type group. guiInfo GuiField     GuiField type to be used. Choose from the names defined for the GuiField class. parameter     Global parameter containing the format selection for field format FieldFormat     Defined format to be used for output of this field.