DEAD area on screen

[Richard Kreiss]

I ran into a very old issue with  displaying a dummy field or any other field on line 20 at the far right of the screen.  I had place a dummy field( defined in auto processing9 which showed a total dollar value form the detail files.  Nothing displayed except the dummy field tl as if it was not even defined.  When moved to line 18, everything displayed as it should.  This problem goes back at least to version 3.  That make this issue something that has been around for over 30 years.  This is a known bug that has not been fixed so be aware of it (for those new to filePro). It bit me as I did not remember this when I added the dummy field to my screen.  When I checked, I remembered that I had to move this field to a new location.  I moved it up 2 line to line 18 and the same column at everything worked as expected.

Yes, I presented this to FP support.  I am sure that others have noted this to support at all of the companies who have owned filePro.  Or at least they may have noted this issue when the company was purchased.  Apparently this is not a "major issue".


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting


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