Browse lookup problem

[Kenneth Brody]

Note: Please fix your e-mail program so that it properly quotes messages. 
You would think that by version 14.0 of Outlook, Microsoft would have 
figured out how to do it.

On 6/6/2011 12:02 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:38 PM
> To: Richard Kreiss
> Cc: 'Jay Ashworth'; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Browse lookup problem
>
> On 6/4/2011 11:53 AM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> [...]
>> The CEO of this company has some filePro experience and added dim
>> foobar(14)(8,.2):ba.
>>
>> When I was finally to get back into their system this AM, I checked
>> again  for an array mapped in auto processing.  I changed the array to
>> dim foobar(14)(8,.2):va and changes his output to use these fields.
> [...]
>
> In other words, it was not possible that ba/bb/bc still contained the values
> you put in them, despite the fact that you previously said that you verified
> their contents.
>
> --
> Kenneth Brody
>
> Ken,
>
> When I turned on the debugger and checked the visible values, they appeared
> to be correct.

Given the above definitions of (8,.2), it is not possible that they 
contained the values you tried to store in them.  It is not possible that 
the debugger would have shown you that they did contain the values you tried 
to put in them.

And I'm not sure what you mean by "appeared" to be correct.

> Your solution of using a msgbox would have shown me that
> part of the values had been cut off

"Part of the values"?  How can you say that, if you tried to store the value 
of "(brw=10 xkey=xdeu show=pkeep prc=nocard fill=desc,top)", and it actually 
contained ".00", how is that "part of the values had been cut off"?

And, given that the debugger would have shown the value "     .00", I again 
don't understand how you say it "appeared" to be correct.

> thereby causing the problem with the
> browse lookup. Once the dim foobar had the dummy field values changes,
> everything worked properly.
>
> Too bad on cannot scroll the value field in the debugger when the value is
> larger than the display area.

Well, given that "     .00" looks nothing like the initial part of the 
values you tried to store in ba/bb/bc, it's irrelevant to the problem at hand.

-- 
Kenneth Brody