AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu (Hooshyar Naraghi) (12/14/90)
Dear Foxbase+/Mac Gurus:
I have a encountered a problem that I do not know why it happens.
I called Fox tech support, and he could not recreate the problem
on his machine. He suggested something was wrong with my hardware.
Well this is what is going on. I hope you can help me out.
use database1 ** it has a memo field called memo1
@ 10,10 get memo1 size 10,50 scroll pict '@N'
read ** @N will make it a read only window
So far so good. The text region area will be displayed and you
cannot modify the text. Now, exit the text region and do the
following:
browse
double click on the memo1 field (either current record or another
record) to open its text region window. When I attempt to modify
the text, the computer beeps and I cannot modify the text. Next,
use database2 ** it has a memo field called memo2
** which is different from memo1
browse
double click on the memo field to open its text region window. It
cannot be changed either!
It seems that the pict '@N' phrase locks any memo field to read
only for any database that has a memo field. The only way to recover
from this is to issue the above @ command with no pict '@N' phrase.
Does anybody know why this happens? My hardware is a Macintosh SE
running System 6.0.2, and the Foxbase+/Mac version is 2.00.
Thanks in advance for your testing this.
Hooshyar Naraghi
AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu
(415) 324-1055