Creating a Dictionary

Creating a Dictionary

There are times when the application should create the dictionary itself. For instance, an application could be written to create the DDFs it needs the first time it is run, removing the need of the vendor to ship (and update) DDFs with the application. There is a method that will perform this task—DdfCreateDictionary. It creates an empty set of dictionary files (including COMMENT.DDF and FIELDEXT.DDF) in the DdfPath directory.

Note: If the overwrite parameter is True, DdfCreateDictionary will irrecoverably destroy any DDF in the current directory, so use with caution.