> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: A Use for OKL
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:10:09 +0100
>
> Is there a way to stop datasession changes? Really annoying when debugging
> and it's on the wrong table. Usually I put the stop on a table change to
> make sure. I agree that the debugger is great except for the crashes. And
> that seems to be when I put a watch on a parameter.
> Al
Hi, Allen
A confession: I never, ever used the datasession 'feature', because I never
figured out what it was doing. As far as I could tell, it was a mechanism that
decided which files to open in which areas, and when to switch the active area.
I always felt that chasing problems was challenging enough when you already
knew what was open, and having that buried in a property of an object somehow
lacked appeal. So I've been spared all the fun of debugging the datasession
activity. AFAIK, it does what it damned well pleases.
I'm still not sure what the 'datasession' was supposed to accomplish. I
suspect it was designed as a feature of the report writer (which I never use
either), so the report would be able to gather everything it needed on its own,
and could just be 'run' without preparation. If so, bad idea. Every time they
try to automate thought processes, it creates a hidden abstraction layer, which
needs to be tested and debugged itself.
Like the Windows Registry - 20 years of faithful service, preventing you from
rearranging your programs in any way.
I sympathize; the debugger works well except when it doesn't.
Dan Covill
San Diego
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