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Program 1 displays a subfile containing the discount rates for a price
code. The DDS for this program contains the subfile.
Program 2 is a service program that is responsible for displaying a
window that reports any status events that might take place (ie. Could
not find price code, discount rate invalid etc...). The DDS for the
window is in a separate display file. I have never had a problem with
this program and it is used by a number of other programs to display
status events.
The error is occurring when Program 2 is called to display the Window.
While trying to figure out what was causing the error I started
stripping out code bit by bit to identify where the problem was
occurring. I ended up removing the subfiles from Program 1's DDS
altogether and ended up with just a Header record displaying a single
text field and a Footer record that contains indicators for the F12 and
F03 keys. It seems that the error is occurring when 'ExFmt' is called in
Program 2 before a read or ExFmt in Program 1.
So with the following code the error would occur:
Program 1:
Write Header;
DoesPriceCodeExist() <- Procedure to determine if the price code exists.
If it doesn't it sets a status event that can be displayed by Program 2.
Call Program 2 <- Calls ExFmt on the Window to display the status event.
The program will fall over at this point.
ExFmt Footer;
But with the following code the error won't occur:
Write Header;
ExFmt Footer;
DoesPriceCodeExist()
Call Program 2 <- Display the window reporting that the Price Code
doesn't exist.
ExFmt Footer;
I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on why this is happening?
Why will the ExFmt on the Window cause the program to crash if the DDS
it is overlaying has only had Writes to it but it will be fine if the
there has been a previous Read/ExFmt.
Both DDS files are compiled with RSTDSP *YES. Also for some strange
reason the error will not occur if I'm running the program in the
Debugger?!?!? Which I find very strange.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Steve
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