<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">But I do think seeing something in Mantis relating to such a problem. Why don't you try testing 4.6 beta ? It is quite stable.<div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 13 Apr 2010, at 21:48, Robert Nichols wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK. Very strange problem...and the list may think I'm crazy, but I've just spent 3 hours trying to isolate the problem so I wouldn't look like a fool. If I'm missing something really obvious, then...sorry in advance! (I'll be a fool, but with my problem solved.)<div><br></div><div>I'm running 4.5 server with V4rb mac client. Upon upgrading plugin and server to 4.5 from 3.?, I started having a problem saving string values to newly created records.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the pattern, I believe:</div><div><br></div><div>- If I </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. create a blank cursor, </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. cursor.addrecord</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. populate fldString</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. update via cursor.updaterecord</div><div> then the value sticks correctly, and can be successfully edited later.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>BUT</div><div><br></div><div>- If I </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. create a blank cursor, and </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. do NOT populate fldString </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. cursor.addrecord (returns recid 123)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. cursor = nil</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. create new cursor to edit record 123</div><div><br></div><div>Then the FIRST time I try to populate and update fldString via cursor, valentina only saves first character of string.</div><div>Subsequent attempts to update truncated value are successful. The only time the problem happens is when fldString is populated for the FIRST in a cursor other than the cursor used to create record (cusor.addrecord).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm seeing the problem in different fields and across different tables. I never saw anything like this prior to migrating from 3.? (can't recall what version I was using) to 4.5.</div><div><br></div><div>Crazy? I couldn't find any similar references in the list archive, so I suspect I am the problem...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>TIA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>
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