UPDATE doesn't break debug?
Barry Wiseman
bwiseman at optonline.net
Sat Mar 8 07:53:45 PST 2008
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> I'm working on some code where I need the user to go directly into the
> screen, in update mode -- it's catching scans from a laser scanner --
> and I'm using -xs rec1 to stand on a blank record, and UPDATE in
> @ENTSEL to get into update mode.
>
> Now, that works ok -- though it's a bit tough, apparently, to catch the
> BRKY and exit it for some reason -- but my *real* problem is that I'm
> having difficulty further down the code, and when I run the table in
> -DB, *UPDATE does not take me to entry mode on the screen*.
>
> *I* call that a bug, can anyone disagree?
>
> It's not as annoying as the few Heisenbugs I've had in 20 years where
> it worked ok in dclerk (where I could debug it), but broke in rclerk...
> but those all date to 4.0.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
Instead of UPDATE, try:
::pushkey "U"; end:
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