* File statistics for plugins

[Ron Melby]

File Statistics record with the detail of File>File Statistics to be available to plugins. perhaps fhGetFileStatistics() function

[tatewise]

That sounds more useful than it I suspect it would be in practice.
Usually, such counts are only needed for a Progress Bar and usually only applied to one or two types of record.
The script needed to run fhGetFileStatistics() and extract the counts required would probably take much the same time as the loop:

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pi = fhNewItemPtr()  -- declare pointer 
pi:MoveToFirstRecord("INDI") -- and set to the first record.
iCount = 0
while pi:IsNotNull() do
   iCount = iCount + 1
   pi:MoveNext()
end

[ColeValleyGirl]

Does this still need to be a wish list request?

[Ron Melby]

I would like it to remain so, it will help considerably to know the number of indis, the number of fams, sources, places etc with a function, rather than counting them at plugins, for various reasons.

fh knows it, and its calc-ed already, so should be as trivial as fhGetTag is to return any of those values. Why re-invent the wheel on this?

[ColeValleyGirl]

Wish List request 588 has been created.