@ud and @ub updated

[Bruce Easton]

Bruce wrote Monday, April 09, 2007 2:44 PM:
> John Esak wrote Monday, April 09, 2007 2:32 PM:
> > 
> > Came in late to this one... @entsel will not update the record's system
> > maintained fields like @ud, however, any use of an @key at all 
> will change
> > the value of @ud. Doesn't matter what you do in the @key routine, just
> > executing the keystroke puts you into update mode and locks the 
> > record. Why,
> > does this appear not to be the case somewhere?
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> That's what I would have thought, John, but tests I ran where there 
> was not auto-prc-posting-to-fields and no posting to fields in the @key 
> routine and using a lookup - to move to a different record (in @key 
> as the examples of previous posts show) did not change the sys fields.
> (5.0.11 and 5.014).
> 
> Bruce

And Ken at some point suggested if no fields are changed, that the 
program might not write out the current record.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.