Exception finds fault with unique field which was not defined

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 5/3/08 9:12 PM, "Werner Ubr" <brains at brains.at> wrote:

Hi Werner,

> Hi  I use V4RB_Carbon.rbx  on MacOS  With RB5.5.
> 
> On importing Data I received exceptions on adding Records. The
> exception finds fault on a VText field as being not uniqe but that
> field was never defined to be unique. It had only the attribut NULLABLE.

>   When I verify the structure in debug mode the UNIQUE box ist
                                                          ^^^^^^^^
> checked together with NULLABLE and INDEXED.

Not clear,  Unique flag  IS or IS NOT checked?


> Fiddling around making the field much bigger helped in some cases, in
> other it helped to remove the nullable attribut. But on checking
> during runtime I see that the nullable attribute is set in the actual
> object.
> 
> Is assigning values to a field not stable to field overflow? Do I run
> into mischief to overwrite record structures? Is there a must to
> check the length of the source which is to be assigned? I thought
> VText is a variable length field and assume it will check its length.
> 
> BTW: it's annoying that the plugins not have a version-resource any
> more, so some cant tell what is installed in the RB plugins folder.

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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