These problems occurred on the same system I described in thread 91326, but are specifically related to the Visual MaxFrame:

1. Tables are not refreshing correctly, even when closed and re-opened. For example, I had the program loaded but no forms open. I replaced some data in VFP and closed VFP. After loading a form in our program the data was not available, even after 5 minutes of tests. Closing the EXE and re-loading showed the correct data.

We think the data is being cached by VMF, as it loads all the DBC tables into the default data session. Any ideas on how to get the correct data? We've tried 'FLUSH', 'TABLEUPDATE', closing and reopening tables. 'REFRESH' DOES seem to work, but setting refresh to 1 will add substantially to network traffic and isn't needed. We WOULD like to think that opening a table got the latest data from the network!

2. We are using the VMF unique IDs which roll over from numeric to character at 99999. Under certain circumstances, we found a problem with several of the symbols used. In a 2-column list populated with 'additem()' and 'This.list(n,2)' we found that the 'list(n,2)' code was truncating the ID code. The first occurrence was an ID '##$\\' and the second '\' was truncated. Of course, the 'seek' on the incorrect ID code led to some strange data anomalies :-((

We found other combinations that caused similar problems, and finally replaced the symbol generator with a simplified one using only upper and lower case letters. Since that gives us 380,000,000 combinations we aren't too worried...

Many thanks in advance for any help I can get!

Barbara