browse lookup phenomenon

[Dennis Malen]

I listed this problem yesterday. Is anyone out there familiar with this 
problem.

The browse lookup reacts differently if executed from "input" as opposed to 
"chain". I have no idea how to fix it.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:45 PM
Subject: browse lookup phenomenon


>I am on filePro 4.8.14D4 with IBM AIX UNIX.
>
> Interesting problem just discovered after all these years.
>
> I have created many browse lookups over the years. We have only recently 
> discovered a problem.
>
> Normally, in a browse lookup you can scroll up and down to see the files 
> displayed. One of my managers just brought to my attention that their 
> users could scroll up and down only once. If they scrolled to the top of 
> the file and tried to scroll back down they could only go as far as the 
> bottom of their screen. When they scrolled up they would go into the next 
> lower record if the browse lookup was based upon a record number.
>
> IDENTIFIED PROBLEM: The processing the users complained of was processing 
> that they had been using for years. But------ that day I had just moved 
> the processing from "input" processing to a "chained" process. It works 
> perfectly in input but not in the chained processing.
>
> Then I find out that this has been happening on other browse lookups. 
> Further investigation revealed that those were all chained also.
>
> Has anyone experienced the same problem? If so, has it been fixed in the 
> newer versions as we will be on 5.0 shortly.
>
> Dennis Malen
> 516.479.5912
>
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