I am working out of "The Pros Talk Visual FoxPro 3". I am
currently on the first report in the section "Section 5: Buffer and
Transactions". I am getting different results than the text says on
the example pp. 108-111.

ISTR that I tried this back when I first got started in VFP and
had the same problem then. I never did figure it out. If someone has
the text, could you please point out what is going wrong?

Everything works fine until p. 110:

"Now save the rcord in a slightly different way to see how it
works. Type = Rlock(). The contents of the Debug window are
predictable.
Edit the record by typing replace FIELD1 with 'test'. The Debug
window should show the following:

getfldstate(0) 1
getfldstate(1) 2 && field was edited
getfldstate(-1) "121"
FIELD1 "test "
oldval('FIELD1') " "
"

I do not get these results. The previous display was:
recno() 2
getfldstate(0) 3
getfldstate(1) 4
getfldstate(-1) "344"
reccount() 2
FIELD1 " "
oldval('FIELD1') .NULL.
and the only difference from that is that FIELD1 is now "test ".

I subsequently have troubles with the record count being one less
than the example states. I am not sure if this is connected.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.

I think I still have these books at work. I will check it out Monday
when I get there and let you know.

Gene Wirchenko wrote:

Mark McCasland <mmccasla (AT) airmail (DOT) net> wrote:

That will be very much appreciated. I had misplaced my CD. I
just found it and tried using their code with the same result. Oddly,
further on, their CD code is quite different from the book.

[snipped previous]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.