I think I have discovered some more info on the pause problem mentioned
below:
I'm guessing, but I suspect that the syntax for pause 4 doesn't like not
having an existing pause 3 on which to hang itself - and I mean that in the
positioning sense!! It's almost as if pause 4 should not have the
possibility for an "AT" parameter - which is not unreasonable as it is
changing the text of an existing message. ("You're telling me to replace the
text in this box at this position but you've moved the box already, you
jerk!")
In other words, you have to have an existing pause 3 on the screen to be
able to use pause 4 - you can't use pause 4 to start your sequence of
messages AND the AT parameter is redundant for pause 4.
Therefore, if the user clears the pause 3 message from the screen then pause
4 throws a wobbly!
Would anybody like to confirm or reject this hypothesis?
Regards, Alastair.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "R:Base ListServer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 10:50 PM
Subject: Output with Check problem
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was writing a piece of code this afternoon that prints a report to an
HTML
> file and decided to use the OUTPUT [filename] CHECK syntax to test for the
> prior existence of the file. (Using RBWin 6.5++)
>
> No problem, it works fine - but I could find no way to test for the result
> of choosing either [Yes] or [No] in response to the "File exists -
overwrite
> it?" question.
>
> Choosing [Yes] prints the report to the file as expected and choosing [No]
> prints it to the screen. This is fine as long as the report does not take
> any amount of time to create.
>
> Also, there appears to be some sort of minor conflict between the Check
> message
> and a Pause message:
>
> PAUSE 4 USING 'Searching for the data' CAPTION 'Please wait...' AT CENTER
> CENTER
> OUTPUT D:\INTERNET\INFO\Labels.HTM CHECK
> PAUSE FOR 1
> PRINT Labels_HTML
>
> Without the "pause for 1" line the display of the "pause 4" line is
> corrupted by the "Check" message - apparently not having time to
re-display
> before the print command kicks in. On their own the first 2 lines work
> fine - it's only with the print command enabled that the using message is
> not re-displayed. (The box appears with the caption only.)
>
> Obviously this is not a major problem and I have an easy work around but
if
> anybody has any idea how to test the response to the Check message I'd be
> grateful.
>
> Thanks in advance and regards,
> Alastair.
>
>
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> St. Albans, UK.
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