[V4RB] Newbie Problem - Desperate for help !

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 3/3/03 2:21 PM, Brian Farrell at brianfarrell at btconnect.com wrote:

> Having just bought Valentina and whacked together some code
> to manage 5 small tables, I am consistently getting a crash
> when I assign a value to a field of one particular table.
> The table has 2 fields, a ULong and a VarChar32 (Indexed).
> It doesn't matter which field I try it just crashes instantly with no
> warning.
> I have spent 18 hours looking at this one seemingly simple problem
> and have got not one line of code further with it.

Check that you have asign name for this BaseObject in ctor !

After create db, close it,
And open db in VAPP. Check if all tables and fields was correctly created.

> The RB debug window shows everything as looking alright.
> The table has no records in it, a cursor is defined.
> 
> I am using OSX 10.2.4, Valentina 1.9.7, RB4.5.2
> My code does
> 
> SetBlank
> mLastID.Value = 1 ' This is the ULong field
> mTableName.Value = "User"
> 
> The crash occurs on the first assignment.
> The table is for handling sequence numbers for all the other tables.

Hmm, so you work with cursor ?

Then why you assign directly into BaseObject fields ?
IF you have cursor (and this is recommended) then you need assign fields as

    curs.ULongfield(1).value = 1


> I could really do with an assist here as I am not the most
> experienced RB developer (having come from a 4D background)8-()
> 
> Also Can anyone tell me how it is possible to DROP a table
> by merely attempting to set a field value?
> If I try and access any field to either set or get the value
> I get a crash and when I view the schema using Valentina the table
> has been dropped?!?

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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