I just know this is really stupid but here goes…

I am trying to open a file, read a record then using msg, verify

the contents of a MV column before passing the MV column to

a Popup.

There appears to be no problem opening the table and there is

no problem opening the dict (apparently) or even reading the

record, BUT I can't get msg to report the contents of a MV column and the popup doesn't work so I am getting voids for the column. ??

I have tried Read, ReadO, ReadV then for each have tried assigning @Record to a variable without success. I have also tried opening the dict and using calculate("fieldname") and I have tried using {fieldname} assignments

but in all cases msg reports nothing.

I can't seem to sort out whether this is a failure to (a) read the record (but no errors reported) (b) failure to read a mv column © failure to

show the contents of a mv column using msg or (d) combinations of

the above.

Any thoughts ? Don't spare the punches !

Regards,

Victor Gooch

data=xlate( File, Key, FieldNo, 'X', 2)

Resp=MSG( @Window, data)

The 2 will drop the delimiters down to textmarks so they can appear in the message definition window.

Otherwise,

vals=@record

Convert @VM to @TM in vals

Resp=MSG( @WINDOW, vals)

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

Aaron,

Thanks for the helpful hints. Looks simpler to xlate as you suggested.

FYI I was using an older 3.1 version that I brought back to 3.6.1 this

afternoon and the same code ran much differently. Many of the

problems that I mentioned disappeared !!!

THANKS for the help. I had just about given up on OI this year due to big-software-company distractions but I kept remembering Cam saying (last year) that he "saw the light" with respect to OI . I have now worked with other ( Access, VB, Java) enough to REALLY appreciate the speed (of development), efficiency, and flexibility of OI by comparison.

Regards,

Victor

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