>>Are tricks also for "Set Procedure To"?
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>I hate procedure files and when possible, eliminate them. I wrote about that:
http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Articles/Splitting%20a%20Procedure%20File.PDF>
>>This is anecdotal admittedly, but twice in the last year the mere act of setting procedure to MyProgram Additive has "shot me in the toe" (so to speak).
>>In one case merely setting procedure caused an immediate corruption of a table. This was repeatable.
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>Are you saying that you had a healthy table and issued SET PROCEDURE, and without any other code running, the table was corrupted? That's pretty wild, if true.
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>>In another case merely setting procedure to MyOtherProgram additive caused a running form to close.
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>Again, are you saying form was open and you issue SET PROCEDURE and the form closed without any other code running?
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>Tamar
Thanks Tamar,
I will read "Splitting a Procedure File" with great interest.
1). Yes i am saying that.
I would launch a particular form with Set Procedure as the first line in the init.
after that line executed, the table in question was not "corrupted", but a value from the first record in the table was propagated to the REST of records.
it took me a number of days to isolate the set procedure.
I removed the line and used Do foo in ProcedureFoo with foo (o mage to Calvin Hsia) instead.
2). Yes with a caveat.
The form was designed to remain active so that a process could be run repeatedly.
The process was invoked and finished but then the form closed immediately after.
very odd indeed (to me anyway)
regards,
Barry Taft
i am only worried in the short term. once there is a problem, the solution usually presents itself.