Barry and the broken @when...

[Barry Wiseman]

Give the man a silver dollar!  If an auto table exists, even an empty one, the 
unexpected behavior does not occur.  This is as painless a workaround as I've ever 
come across.

[sorry about all this top-posting, but I know it's easier for John.]

GCC Consulting wrote:
> Top Post:
> 
> Run the debugger and hit break and check to see if auto processing runs.
> That assumes of course that there is and auto table.
> 
> If not, create one and check to see if it runs.  If it does, you may be able
> to trap the break at this point.
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
>   
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.c
>> elestial.com] On Behalf Of John Esak
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:59 PM
>> To: Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com
>> Subject: Barry and the broken @when...
>>
>> Oops! 
>>
>> Sorry again Barry.  It does screw up the way you say.
>>
>> I don't know what changed... but I ran it all again just to 
>> be sure... and it does do exactly what you say.
>>
>> Let me look at it a little more... but it is certainly acting 
>> differently the moment some @when-leavingt is done... 
>> althought that might not be the precise "reason"... by 
>> appearances it seems to be... however, there may be some 
>> other thing at fault. There might be a work-around.
>>
>> John
>>
>> P.S. - I'm thinking a global would help here, but that would 
>> mean one per @when-field and this would, of course, be so 
>> inelegant as to be useless.
>> But, what I want to determine is why the BREAK thinks it 
>> should close down clerk from this point instead of just what 
>> it should do. Which, of course, is what *you've* been 
>> thinking about since you noticed this! :-)  
>>
>> It's not that I think I can figure this out any better than 
>> you... but I've been down the road on @entsel stuff a long 
>> ways, and I've hit this 
>> BREAK-IS-OUTSIDE-THE-PRC-TABLE-AT-THIS-POINT thing before... 
>> and always managed to develop a work-around. It might not be 
>> this time though. But it's worth a few brain-cpu cycles.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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