fpgroups.com: Tip of the day!

[Nancy Palmquist]

fp at casabellagallery.com wrote:
> Did you know that if you had an invalid edit within your
> processing table and tried to view dummy fields (F6 + D)
> none will show? Well, now you do!
> 
> Give it a try. Open any of your processing tables,
> define a dummy variable with a non-existing edit, press
> F6 and then D ... No dummy fields are shown !!!
> 
> This is a good hint of what to look for when you find
> yourself trying to figure out where have your dummies gone 8-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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> Jose Lerebours
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> 
Jose,

MY NOTES APPLY TO 5.0.14 on the most part.  That is still my primary 
version for development.  Most of my customers have not yet updated.

I would like to add to this the fact that trying to view the dummy 
variables/Declared variables from *cabe when you have partially typed a 
variable attribute such as

dm(   or

I got no dummies and no declared when I tried this.

Now I am always gun shy when I hit F5 in this case, I have had the 
deadly "Unreferenced memory error" that amounts to a seg violation on 
Unix and lost anything I had done in the table.  It happens often enough 
that I save before hitting F5, but not predictable enough that I have 
been able to define a bug report for Ken.

It seems to be an issue related to how long I have been working on the 
table.  The more time I have spent working on the logic the more likely 
it is that it will crash.

So add that to your list of stuff to worry about.

Nancy


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