On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Paul Newton <paul.new...@pegasus.co.uk> wrote:

> I am getting an error 1884 and stepping through the code the line of code 
> that produces it is a call to the SEEK function.  This seems very strange 
> because the data is not being changed ... anybody have any ideas/suggestions?

When you SEEK, you move the record pointer. If you're on a table with
an uncommitted buffered record and optimistic record buffering, moving
the record pointer attempts to save the buffer to disk. If you haven't
generate a key value, or duplicated an existing one, you get the
Uniqueness error. Is it possible you've got some misbehaving code
that's APPENDING a  record, and the SEEK is throwing an error as you
move off that record. Alternatively, check the existing table for
values of ZTAX1 that are already blank or zero. One record is fine,
but the second throws the uniqueness error.

> Also, in the debugger, if I Set Next Statement on that line immediately after 
> it has caused the error, then the SEEK works WITHOUT generating an error.

Whenever I see Heisenbugs (bugs that behave differently when using the
debugger), I have to assume the original error message is likely
valid, but the line number and code is likely bogus. Instead of
stepping through the code, try using DEBUGOUT to display the values of
the current ALIAS(), RECNO() and key values before and after that line
of code and see if you can detect a difference. Also, there's a
function that shows a string of flags for the state of the record -- I
can't recall it at the moment and don't have a VFP handy -- use that
to see if you're somehow dirtying the buffer by accident.

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com

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