Re: Filemaker Pro chokes on Find command
Re: Filemaker Pro chokes on Find command
- Subject: Re: Filemaker Pro chokes on Find command
- From: Eric Geoffroy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:33:07 -0700
Hi all,
Thanks for the tips. Here's what I tried so far-
1. Adding another "find" at the end.
2. Changing the "request -1" to request 1 (there's only one request in
my test)
3. Turned off smart quote marks in FMP 6 document prefs.
I'm still getting stuck in Find mode. I'm happy to try any other
suggestions out.
- Eric
On May 26, 2005, at 12:01 PM, kai wrote:
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:
------
delete every request
set (create new request)'s cell "date" to "5/1/2005…5/30/2005"
find
find
------
Of course, Eric's problem may be something else entirely - but I
thought it worth mentioning.
---
kai
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