Dayle,
Line 14 has an extra 'N' in connect.
What I would suggest is taking a look at the help in 7.6 and reviewing the
list of obsolete commands. All Fillin commands should be replaced with
DIALOG. The screen coordinates syntax using AT is obsolete.
Dawn Hast
Dairpak Business Systems Group
Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc.
"Coxen, Dayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/13/2008 10:12:57
AM:
> I am new to rbase and have only recently started converting a 6.5
> application to 7.5.
>
> The following code works in 6.5.
> But in 7.6 lines 18, 19 and 20 seem to be ignored.
> No error.
> The content of msg is not displayed.
> Execution continues to "Are you sure you want to continue?"
>
> Also when I run R:style on this code, it gives the message for line
> 14 "Not a valid command: CONNECT"
>
> 1 SET ANSI OFF
> 2 SET QUOTES="
> 3 SET SINGLE=?
> 4 SET MANY=*
> 5 SET AND OFF
> 6 SET VAR vdate DATE
> 7 SET VAR ANSI TEXT
> 8 SET ERROR VAR hold
> 9 SET VAR CONTAINS INTEGER
> 10 SET VAR CONTAINS = 1
> 11 SET ERROR MESSAGES OFF
> 12 SET MESSAGES OFF
> 13 LABEL start
> 14 CONNNECT wdoss
> 15 SET NULL " "
> 16 CLS
> 17 FILLIN vdate USING "Enter Date To Be Reported. ==> " AT 5 10
> 18 SET VAR bvdate = .vdate
> 19 SET VAR msg TO ("You are about to start reporting for" &
CTXT(.bvdate))
> 20 WRITE .msg
> 21 DIALOG "Are you sure you want to continue? " ANSI vkey yes AT 17
> 22 IF ANSI EQ "Yes" THEN
> 23 GOTO end1
> 24 ELSE
> 25 GOTO start
> 26 ENDIF
>
> Very much a Newbie,
> Dayle Coxen
> 850-410-5635
>
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