All GREAT points but when you are dealing with old code that they want to just maintain and NOT enhance this is the kind of situations you have to deal with. I COMPLETELY agree with you but sadly my company is moving to a vb.net front end and maintaing the "green screen" side of the system has a incredibly low priority.
anyway thanks to everyone for their responses and ideas they are all appriciated! thanks everyone dougc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Ferris Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 8:33 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] passing file pointers? Wouldn't even BETTER practice be to just ensure that the file is open in the calling program? If this is a "well used" routine that is called for a couple of million records, then even the overhead of this simple check can quickly mount. Whilst I agree that it is "good" that code should try & catch errors, I think that this is a classic example of where the real "fix" is to fix the "problem" that is in the calling routine .... removes a whole error trap routine (what DO you do if the file isn't open & this is in the middle of a batch update?) that shouldn't exist in the first place. YMMV Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage > Better by Design! >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Jordan >Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2008 10:11 PM >To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >Subject: RE: [U2] passing file pointers? > >Use the Fileinfo routine. > >If fileinfo(fv,1) = (if 0 not open, if 1 open) > >This checks that is a valid file that is open. > >This is good practice to test the file is open before opening, as >reopening >the file clears all previous record locks held on that file by that user >and >can cause fatal errors when using transaction boundaries > >Regards > >David Jordan >------- >u2-users mailing list >u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3072 (20080503) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3072 (20080503) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
