>I have developed an application (VFP 5.0) managing company stack,
>invoices, customers and so on. I want it to be used in the network
>(Win95 peer-to-peer), running on several machines simoultanously and
>accessing the same data.
>
>I encountered a problem with solving update conflicits.
>A good example may be a ware stock.
>
>I use Record Bufforing for managing my stock table. When an operator
>decides to save entered data I issue TABLEUPDATE(.T.,.F.).
>
>The problem arises when two operators manipulate the stock of the same
>item simultanously. For example one of them is doing an invoice and
>selling the item to somebody, another one is entering a delivery of the
>same item to the stock. Than only last operation is saved and the final
>quatity of the item on stock in wrong.
>
>Actually the basic problem is how one station can read changes made to
>the data by another station. Something like SET REFRESH would do, but
>this is only for browse window as far as I know.
>
>Code sample:
>Assumption: at the beginning table1.field1 = 0;
>
>Oper1: use table1
>Oper1: cursorsetprop("Buffering",3) && record buffering on
>
>Oper2: use table1
>Oper2: cursorsetprop("Buffering",3) && record buffering on
>
>Oper1: replace field1 with 10 in table1
>Oper1: TableUpdate (.T.,.F.,"table1")
>
>Oper2: replace field1 with table1.field1+5 in table1 && intend to
>increase field1 for 5 (e.g. delivery)
>Oper2: TableUpdate (.T.,.F.,"table1")
>
>Oper1: ? field1 && displays 10
>
>Oper2: ? field1 && displays 5
>
>Oper1: use && closing files
>
>Oper2: use
>
>Oper1: use table1
>Oper1: ? field1 && displays 5, the operation done by Oper1 is missed.
>Proper result would be 15
>
>
>Thanks for help in advance!
>Marcin Konopka
>
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>Marcin Konopka
>MSc in Adv. Computer Science student
>of the University of Birmingham, UK
>-------------------------------------
>e-mail: M.Konopka-ACS97@cs.bham.ac.uk
>Web: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mqk
>ICQ no.: 4452449
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Is the data being flushed from the other terminal (FLUSH) ? If this is the case
you should be in receipt of the most uptodate data from your table.