Ben Yes, there are a number of unsolved mysteries in an application we've created for a client and maintained for years - things that work fine on our Win 98 and XT machines, but not their Windows 2000 system.
David Blocker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:11 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Criteria For My Unstableness With R:Base6.5++ Build 1.862 > I'm not sure if this helps, but maybe someone can put all the > pieces together. > > I have an app that is running at 5 sites (six if you count me). On > my NT server system (and 3 win 98 systems) all works well. I run > RBW 6.1a and 6.5+. All but one of the others are running RBW > 6.1a runtime. > > I installed RBW 6.5+ runtime at one site and one proven routine > crashes every time it's run... but I cannot duplicate it on my > system, even using their data. The rest of the app runs fine. On > another Win 2000 system (and RBW 6.1a runtime) we get spurious > results printing a particular report. Again, on my system it works > every time using their data file and identical apx files. > > Alastair's comment regarding illegal colors is a good lead I'm going > to follow up on... and I wonder if there might not be other similar > subtle issues at work. > > I'm hoping an upgrade to 6.5++ will improve some of the > unexplained differences in stability from one machine/os to > another. Has anyone found this to be true? > > Ben Petersen > > > On 1 Jan 2003, at 10:42, marc schluter wrote: > > > HI all > > > > I am using XP Pro and the latest RBW 6.5++. I get > > kicked out of RBW about1-2 times a day. I can not > > duplicate the crash and it does not happen at the same > > place. > > > > Could this be a variable problem? If there was a > > problem with the variables I figured I should be able > > to duplicate the crash. Is this correct? > > > > I didn't have these crashes in 98 and 6.1. > > > > Also, is there an easy way to check these vars or do I > > use the old fashion way, Blood, Sweat, & Tears? > > > > thanks > > marc > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1. My programming code - I either define a variable > > > with the wrong > > > datatype, or it was still in memory from somewhere > > > else with the wrong > > > datatype, or it didn't exist when my program was > > > expecting it to exist. > > > TRACE your program carefully, watching variable > > > definitions and datatypes - > > > along with Javier's suggestions for checking for > > > un-defined but referenced > > > variables in reports and forms. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > >
