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    errors drop users to control panel

    On runtime - shadow, users are periodically dropped into the control panel. Although it is hidden in autoexec, still shows everything
    anyone had that experience?
    Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
    972 524 8714
    [email protected]

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    Re: errors drop users to control panel

    I've not normally seen this.

    Is this random or at a certain point - form, browse, process?
    Al Buchholz
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      #3
      Re: errors drop users to control panel

      It seems random - have asked the operators to tell me where they were and what they did just before - but so far nothing specific

      Also, even though I hide the control panel in the autoexec, it drops them to a completely visible control panel - they use task manager to close Alpha
      Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
      972 524 8714
      [email protected]

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        #4
        Re: errors drop users to control panel

        Gotta love random.....
        Al Buchholz
        Bookwood Systems, LTD
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        Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
        Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
        When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
        "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
        Albert Einstein

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          #5
          Re: errors drop users to control panel

          Martin,

          As a safety, put controlpanel.hide() in the OnActivate event of one or more critical forms. But you knew that.
          Peter
          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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            #6
            Re: errors drop users to control panel

            Well ..... I have a "Master Menu" that never closes, and has a timer set to run every 60 seconds - I put in the timer event controlpanel.hide() - this, hopefully at least, will prevent the users from getting into trouble.

            I think I have the problem figured out, but don't know where it is coming from - since they cannot close Alpha (except via the task manager,) the "Master Menu" is still open (you have to say this.code.canexit="" to close it.)

            Hopefully I will figure it out.
            Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
            972 524 8714
            [email protected]

            ____________________
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              #7
              Re: errors drop users to control panel

              Martin, we'll be following this with interest. Let us know what you discover. Good luck!

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                #8
                Re: errors drop users to control panel

                I don't have v12 but going back to v10.5 (as well as v11) I have seen it happen. No idea how it happens, except that I would guess the error somehow occurs before one gets to the autoexec. Fortunately it is rare, and the last time I personally saw it happen was quite some time ago. Unfortunately I don't remember the nature of the error that triggered it.

                Ray Lyons

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                  #9
                  Re: errors drop users to control panel

                  I use Peter's method that hides the control panel onactivate and zorders the form to the.bottom without having to have the timer running. The only thing I use the timer for is to make sure the main form fills the window when it is the only form shown. Then the timer is turned off when another form is called. It works well.
                  Robin

                  Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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                    #10
                    Re: errors drop users to control panel

                    I guess I should clarify (to the extent I can!). I am pretty sure (!) the only time I have witnessed this happening was before any form was loaded. Thus the error occurred either in the autoexec or before it. Also, I am sure that whatever triggered the problem was something random, not something that always happened and needed a fix to go away--and it has to be very rare. Again, for me it was in v10.5 and/or v11. I don't have v12 and probably never will, but that's a completely different story.

                    Raymond Lyons

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                      #11
                      Re: errors drop users to control panel

                      Originally posted by Raymond Lyons View Post
                      I guess I should clarify (to the extent I can!). I am pretty sure (!) the only time I have witnessed this happening was before any form was loaded. Thus the error occurred either in the autoexec or before it. Also, I am sure that whatever triggered the problem was something random, not something that always happened and needed a fix to go away--and it has to be very rare. Again, for me it was in v10.5 and/or v11. I don't have v12 and probably never will, but that's a completely different story.

                      Raymond Lyons
                      Okay, I ran into one version of this, but it is different from what Martin was wondering about. The case I ran into was not really random at all, in that it would happen every time the shadow DB was opened on certain machines. What happened was that somehow a date field in a parameters table got changed to a 2 digit numerical. The autoexec does a lookup of that field, expecting it to be a date field. The mismatch caused an error, and clicking OK on the error message dumped the user into the A5 Control Panel (yes, I know, bad error trapping on my part!). How did the date field get changed to numeric? Good question. I am not sure but one possibility is that it happened when I was adding a field to the table on the server and somehow inadvertently messed up the date field without noticing it. But that does not make much sense, because this did not happen on all users shadows, just 2 at most. Also the tables get zipped, copy/pasted and unzipped a lot, so something could have happened there, and maybe only on some computers. I don't know, but all is working properly now, except I still need to look at better error handling.

                      Raymond Lyons

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                        #12
                        Re: errors drop users to control panel

                        you cannot trap this kind of error - it goes to the panel without giving an error
                        Cole Custom Programming - Terrell, Texas
                        972 524 8714
                        [email protected]

                        ____________________
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                          #13
                          Re: errors drop users to control panel

                          Originally posted by martinwcole View Post
                          you cannot trap this kind of error - it goes to the panel without giving an error
                          Martin, you are far more of an expert than I am, but I thought, well, why couldn't one just put A5_Close() at the end of the error handler? So I experimented and recreated the error situation, with a simple error trap that included :A5_Close(), thinking that would keep the control panel from opening by closing down A5. The results were interesting and disconcerting: When I first did it and tested (using both V10.5 and V11) I would get the same error message in my error handler that A5 had given me without the error handler, and then :A5_Close() indeed closed everything down instead of going to the Control Panel, just as I wanted. But then mysteriously a few tests later (with no changes whatsoever to the application) no error occurred at all and the opening form opened with a number in the date field that was supposed to trigger the error!! Then I discovered that the latter occurred only if I opened the DB via a desktop shortcut to the ADB file. But I would get the error if I used "Recent Databases" or "Select A Database" and :A5_Close() worked as expected. To make matters worse, most of the application's users open the ADB via a command line from another program. I'm not sure what happens in that case, but I suspect it would be the same as with a desktop shortcut to the ADB file.

                          As I don't have V12, I don't know if that would make any difference. But this is disturbing, and as someone said privately, bad behavior on A5's part. I don't ever want a user dumped into the Control Panel.

                          Raymond Lyons

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                            #14
                            Re: errors drop users to control panel

                            What happens if you try it as

                            codeTxt = <<%code%
                            :A5_Close()
                            %code%
                            on_xbasic_idle(codeTxt)
                            There can be only one.

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                              #15
                              Re: errors drop users to control panel

                              Originally posted by Stan Mathews View Post
                              What happens if you try it as

                              codeTxt = <<%code%
                              :A5_Close()
                              %code%
                              on_xbasic_idle(codeTxt)
                              Hi Stan,

                              Presuming you meant put it in the error handler, it made no difference--same exact behavior.

                              Raymond Lyons

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