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SET('STEP') always returns OFF
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03/09/2004 14:28:22
 
 
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03/09/2004 14:21:17
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00939214
Message ID:
00939266
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>Hi Fabio,
>
>When did you do all this research! :)
>

>
>I see your post, and ( for curiosity ) explain it into 2 minute,
>and write the message in 10 minutes !(sich)!
>
>
>Anyway, may it be a bug or a feature or an interpretation issue, one thing is clear. IF SET('STEP')='ON' in code is unreliable. My current advice is to use IF SET('DEBUG')='ON'.
>

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>No, sure it is not a bug, but it to be a VFP side feature.

Perhaps it's because I'm more alpha then beta, but for me it's not logical that it returns OFF after I've declared it ON.

>Sure it can to be usefull at design time.
>
>Example:
>If you write a monitor that check the developer work,
>or a monitor that build/test the program automatically this behaviour have sense.
>
>This monitor, with SET("Step") can known if the program is in suspend mode.
>
>This show a interesting behaviour of VFP VM:
>it is not a Multithread engine,
>but the it is not a simple sequential program engine.

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Groet,
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