Another one: Why don't brwlook show-only's in auto run every time?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Sun, 2 Dec 2007 18:33:53 -0500):

> I have this brwlook in my automatic processing:
>
> ::lookup slips = ttmslipe  k=1    i=c -nxm b="(brw=14,7,1 show=only
> fill=desc,top)[Slip     Type    Tech    Desc:
> ::                    Comment]*1       *2      *7      *3
> *131":
>
> When I select a record from the index or browse, I get the brwlook.
>
> But if I then use the arrow keys to move up and down the index, I don't
> get the browse, even when there are records that should match it.

What do you mean by "move up and down the index"?  Are you scrolling
through the browse, or some other screen?  If you're on the full screen
showing the record, then moving up and down through records will run
the automatic processing, and will show the brwlook if you execute it.

> If I go directly to those records, I do get it, with the proper
> contents.  Shouldn't it happen every time automatic runs?  Automatic
> runs every time I position myself onto a new record, right?

"It works here".

> Or is this one of those nasty interactions with "automatic runs three
> times, and there isn't a system variable to tell you which of the three
> runs it is?"  :-}

Well, the "it runs three times" isn't entirely true.  I assume you are
referring to:

     1:  You first read and display the record, which runs automatic.
     2:  At some later point in time, you enter update mode, at which
         point the record is read again, and automatic processing is
         run "a second time".
     3:  After you save the record (and you're not in "add records" mode,
         or something else which will cause you to go to another record),
         filePro re-reads the record (in non-update mode) and runs
         automatic processing "a third time".

Yes, the above scenario causes automatic processing to run three times,
but that's because three distinct events have occurred to trigger it,
with each one running it once.

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