OpenEuphoria

Re: puzzle

• Posted by "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Mar 13, 2004
• 555 views

Well, It's fixed itself. I went back to check the value of tmp as Irv
suggested and removed the remark on the trace and it started working. I then
removed the trace and it continued to work. I'm guessing XP might have been
confused....I sure was. Thanks for the suggestions.

george

----- Original Message -----
From: "I Mullins" <eugtk at yahoo.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: puzzle


>
>
> George Walters wrote:
> >
> >
> > Irv,
> > The program runs and produces a txt file (it does this correctly in both
> > cases). When it's running it should execute a "message_box" twice and
> > display a message of "customer not on file". The trace shows that it
> > gets to
> > the message_box statement, but no message box appears when run from the
> > menu
> > but does when from Crimson Editor. At the end of the program it "system"
> > commands to run a program which will display the txt file. This system
> > command gets an error code of -1 when run from the menu but gets a 0
> > when
> > from the editor.
> >
> > Here's the code that should display a message box.
> >
> >     if EOF[arCustomer] then
> >     --trace(1)
> >         tmp = message_box("Customer "& str(customer) & "  has open items
but
> > is not on file.",
> >                           "",0)
> >         nextCustomerNbr = customer + 1
> >         return
> >     else
> >
>
> It might be interesting to examine the value of tmp after this call -
> according to the docs, " ... A return value of 0 indicates a failure to
> set up the window. "
>
> I don't know *why* there could be such a failure, but this would be
> the first step in finding out.
>
> Regards,
> Irv
>
>
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