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Re: Filemaker Pro chokes on Find command
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Re: Filemaker Pro chokes on Find command


  • Subject: Re: Filemaker Pro chokes on Find command
  • From: kai <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:01:02 +0100


On Thursday, May 26, 2005, at 04:30 pm, Gary (Lists) wrote:

"kai" wrote:

From my previous dealings with FMP, the culprit could well be
FileMaker itself. Somewhere in the application preferences
('Document.../General' in the good old days, IIRC), there was a "Use
smart quotes" option...

To double-check this, I just went back to an old copy of FMP (4.0v1), running on OS 9.1, but couldn't replicate the problem. So maybe I was recalling a setup even earlier than that - or perhaps it was just another episode of delirious raving(!) Best disregard... ;-)

No, it's there (he said, hopefully.) Though I am not looking as I type,
there are 'Application Preferences' and 'Document Preferences'. I _believe_
that this setting is in Document preferences, so if you didn't open a DB you
may have missed that.


At any rate, in FM5 and FM6 (and I do think FM4, but...) it's in one set and
not the other.

Ah yes - just as I recalled. Thanks, Gary. :-)

And if AS were being run from a Field, as is common, then this _would_ be a
problem. If the AS is in a Perform AS script step, then I don't think it
would even compile in there, but...

Right. It returns the old "found unknown token" compile time error, here - as one might expect.


Anyway, while checking that, I thought I'd go back to the Eric's query - to see if I could replicate the condition that he first described. Turns out that I get similar behaviour - except that it's not actually Find mode I get stuck in. It's in FMP's script execution, as if the script has been paused.

If this what Eric was trying to describe, then I may be able to suggest a fix, which simply involves repeating the find command - something like this:

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delete every request
set (create new request)'s cell "date" to "5/1/2005…5/30/2005"
find
find

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Of course, Eric's problem may be something else entirely - but I thought it worth mentioning.

---
kai

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