@ud and @ub updated

[Dennis Malen]

Bruce,

I did deactivate auto prc and @entsel. Neither solved the problem.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Easton" <bruce at stn.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:47 PM
Subject: RE: @ud and @ub updated


> 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.
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