No, I haven't dared yet <g>. I have tried adding in "TEXT" to the "SET VAR
vButton = .%1" line to give "SET VAR vButton TEXT = .%1" and it's not happy
with that - strangely.

And, yes, 4 1/2 hours early this time: 06:22 to my 11:00 - magic!

Regards,
Alastair.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:22 AM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: CriteriaForMyUnstablenessWithR:Base6.5++Build 1.862


> Alastair,
>
> Have you tried codelocking the new eep?
>
> btw, it's 6:05, am I still landing there before you?
>
> Ben Petersen
>
>
> On 14 Jan 2003, at 11:00, Alastair Burr wrote:
>
> > I have changed my form and the eep so that they follow the "standard"
> > way of using multiple buttons and the eep is no longer codelocked.
> >
> > My first impression is a significant improvement in that the number of
> > crashes has decreased when the app is run without the pause before
> > calling the form.
> >
> > I have made it crash twice but I was trying my hardest to do so by
> > quitting and running R:Base again as quickly as I could. Previously
> > this would have been easy.
> >
> > So, why does this EEP work in plain text:
> >
> > SET VAR vButton = .%1
> > SET VAR vSelName TEXT = NULL
> >
> > SWITCH .vButton
> >   CASE 'G'
> >     SET VAR vSelName = 'GENERAL'
> >   BREAK
> > ...
> >   CASE 'X'
> >     SET VAR vSelName = 'EXIT'
> >   BREAK
> > ENDSW
> >
> > EXITFORM
> > RETURN
> >
> > with button command: Run xxx.EEP USING x
> >
> >
> > whereas this, codelocked, _sometimes_ doesn't:
> >
> > $COMMAND
> > General
> > SET VAR vSelName = 'GENERAL'
> > EXITFORM
> > RETURN
> > ...
> > $COMMAND
> > SysExit
> > SET VAR vSelName = 'EXIT'
> > EXITFORM
> > RETURN
> >
> > with button command: Run xxx IN xxx.EEP
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alastair.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:15 AM
> > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: CriteriaForMyUnstablenessWithR:Base6.5++Build
> > 1.862
> >
> >
> > > Following Razzak's message I've checked the History demo and can see
> > > what
> > I
> > > presume is RBTI's "standard" method of using multiple buttons is
> > > what
> > Javier
> > > pointed out just beforehand. It's getting late here now so I'll try
> > > that tomorrow.
> > >
> > > Just for the record, the problem is not that I can't get the buttons
> > > to
> > work
> > > with my eep - they work fine - once I get into the form. R:Base
> > > sometimes crashes or hangs just before getting into the form. I'd be
> > > happy to use
> > the
> > > "standard" method but all I suggested was that _maybe_ my codelocked
> > > eep
> > was
> > > the problem _if_ it had some sort of error that R:Base was finding
> > > as it entered the form.
> > >
> > > My eep may not be the best way and I'm happy to change it to see if
> > > that stops the crashes.
> >
>

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