Sami,
My experience is more like JM's. Distributing the same app with
the same RB run-time might generate inexplicable errors on
something like 1 in 5 or so sites. My experience is different in that
it's not related to buttons or eeps, necessarily, but just in the
general code.
It happens rarely, and is not reproducible other than on the client's
computer (downloading their data to my system and running the
app showed no problems). _Rearranging_ code (moving the block
where things break up or down a few lines) has solved the problem
twice. I'm still working on a solution for the third such incident.
It's rare enough to not be a major worry, but has occurred often
enough to make me sit up and take notice. One list contributor
calmed me with a "that's just the way it is sometimes" exploitation
<g>, which saved me from further bloodying my forehead on the
wall next to my desk.
Ben Petersen
On 2 Aug 2001, at 9:29, Sami Aaron wrote:
> J.M. -
>
> In my experience, in almost EVERY instance of the "Fatal error" message, I
> have found that the problem is MY programming! Either a variable that
> should be in memory isn't, or a variable was pre-defined with a different
> datatype than it expects now, or there is an unbalanced set of quotes or
> parentheses, or something else that earlier versions of R:BASE were more apt
> to either forgive or ignore.
>
> Since the problem is sporadic, I would be sure to clear all unnecessary
> variables before and after using the form and the eep. I often name
> variables called in an eep with a different naming convention than other
> application variables and form variables so they can be cleared easily after
> using, and they won't conflict with other existing variables.
>
> Good luck!
> Sami
>
> Sami Aaron
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J.M. GRATIAS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 6:31 AM
> Subject: RE: Merging forms into one database - Razzak's Reply
>
>
> >
> > >>
> > in the application that we are developing we have utilized many push
> > buttons
> > to take us to different forms and screens, as the program returns to the
> > originating point (after the push button eep has executed) we are getting
> > an
> > application error (fatal) "DR WATSON type" which shuts down the program
> and
> > returns us to the desktop. Any ideas?
> > <<
> >
> >
> > I have the same problem ....
> > Hapen only on some hardware, and always with NT 4.0 SP 4 or 5, RBW 6.1a
> and
> > 6.5 ++
> >
> > Last time was about 2 weeks ago. I sent Dr WATSON debug file to RDCC.
> >
> > You could try 2 things :
> >
> > Change display setting : 64/32 bytes colors to 16 bytes or 256 colors ....
> > Increase virtual memory.
> >
> > Sometimes it help ...
> >
> > This a very old problem (I reported it about 2 yaers ago) that have never
> > been fixed because nobody have never been able to duplicate it ....
> >
> > Hope this help,
> >
> > J.M. GRATIAS, Logimatique
> >
> >
> >
>
>
