@sn not reset when expected

[Joe Chasan]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:51:20PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> Joe,
> Just taking the chance of this note to respond to you about something else,
> too. A couple people from China signed onto the FP Room tody through a link
> (somehow) from your page. I see that you have listed the Room on your web
> site. Thanks. These guys were inquiring about Brainboost and had never heard
> of filePro... strange, huh?  I'm (we're) not exactly sure how or why they
> got there, one said by chance... he put up a long link which included
> Magnatech in it so I assume it was through your efforts.  Anyway, thanks.
> They said they would come back to study English but another (someone else
> NOT from China) asked how filePro related to Oracle... He had never heard of
> filePro either... I queried him as to how he found the room and he said he
> came to find out about Brainboost... again, I'm lost... but strange new
> people in the Room are what it is all about... even regular new people not
> strange at all are welcome. Thanks.

i hope they werent' trolling for girls, bing that the link i had up
called it a "chat" room!
 
> As to @sn. As you know if you do a browse that collects data to be displayed
> on the screen below the browse lookup, you hve to bring down the browse,
> re-DISPLAY the bottom screen and then re-execute the browse. I wasn't clear
> when you were doing the @wbl, so I can't comment more until you elaborate.
> I'll test what you are saying, but it sounds like SOP not a bug.

the fact is that clearp does remove the popup window and i'd expect
clerk processing to recognize this and change @sn immediately.  because
it does not, if you do a clearp in this scenario, all subsequent popup's
fail until said "end" statement because of whatever internal tracking 
clerk is doing for @sn/popup status, so you get left with a corrupted 
screen, with bleed-through of the fields that used to be on the popup, 
but no screen borders/field names/etc as would be on the normal screen.  
i'd hate to think that a  situation that allows such a mess would be SOP
.

-joe

> -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Joe Chasan
> > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 4:11 PM
> > To: filepro-list at seaslug.org
> > Subject: @sn not reset when expected
> >
> >
> > When does @sn get reset?
> >
> > I have a situation where I have a screen of dummies which i'm updating
> > via a popup update command - some of the dummies lookup to another
> > file and there was some browse processing to display choices. They
> > wanted more info added that was on screen #1 of that file - so i
> > figured just to add pop=1 to the lookup browse line - but of course
> > that failed because the process was already working within a popup
> > screen - so i figured - i don't need both popups open at same time,
> > i can close the first, do my lookup, popup if desired from the built-in
> > <F6> lookup, then reopen the first popup window - but i can't figure out
> > why this doesn't work - in debugging, @sn shows the original popup screen
> > value throughout the @wbl process until after the "end" statement is hit,
> > making this seemingly simple workaround unworkable.
> >
> > SCO Openserver 5.06/clerk 5.0.13
> >
> > Bug?
> >
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> > -Joe Chasan-                      Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
> > joe at magnatechonline.com           Hicksville, NY - USA
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-Joe Chasan-                      Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
joe at magnatechonline.com           Hicksville, NY - USA
http://www.MagnatechOnline.com    Tel.(516) 931-4444/Fax.(516) 931-1264