Alastair: As you know, you can have forms with the same name under DOS and Windows. Is it possible that the Windows forms were deleted (or corrupted) so Rbase could not find them and thus went looking for the forms in the SYS_FORMS rather than the SYS_FORMS2? I have something similar happen to me when I started working with the Windows version; now, whenever I convert a form or report I rename it adding a W_ in front, so the "emp_form" under DOS becomes W_emp_form under Windows. When you display the forms in the designer, you can easily see which forms are DOS and which ones are Windows. The only problem I have had with forms and reports is when you modify a report/form (saved under the latest release) with a previous release it tends to corrupt the form/report. I run into this problem when I load forms/reports developed with the latest release in a clients computer which doe not have the latest patch, the forms/reports run fine, but if you try to modify them (with a previous release), many time they become corrupted. Now, I make all the changes in my computer (with the latest patch) and upload the modified forms/reports. Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE President Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. 14315 S. Twilight Ln., Suite #14 Olathe, KS 66062-4571 (913)829-0888 (913)649-2904 FAX -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alastair Burr Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:22 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Form problem (was: Ping - Pong) If Only! Actually, I just had a weird experience with about a dozen forms in one of my databases: For some reason they suddenly decided that they were not really v6.5++ forms and wanted me to convert them to the latest (available <g>) version. 3 or 4 were originally from the Dos version but in name only having been completely reconstructed and the others were originally constructed in v6.5++. So I did the conversion - as there was no way into the form without doing so - and that lost me part of the formatting of the fields and EEP data. Not good! Anybody have any experience of this happening or any idea why it might happen? Luckily I had a backup that didn't seem to have the problem but it was my oldest backup - I don't keep too far back as things change so much that it's not (usually) worth it. Perhaps now it a good time to write a procedure that unloads each form (and reports) to individual files rather than rely on the reloads and backups that I already do. Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Javier Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:40 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Ping - Ignore > Pong...it is eerie ...hardly any activity in the last couple of days. Either > 6.5++ is finally bug free and fully mastered by all users or everyone has > moved to 7.0, although, the 7.0 list has been pretty slow too... mmmmmm
