Re: (not-so-) Unknown error -1176

In article <4nbden$dhf@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Alan Goodman <alan@dssmktg.com> wrote: >Hi, >I have a menu that generates a forms error -1176, which is an unknown >error according to Informix. Not hardly. Unless you mixed older tools with newer ones and installed the older last, you would get this message for -1176: .-1176 A COMMAND KEY value occurs elsewhere in the current menu. There is a very detailed release note that describes this issue and the migration implications. See the entry in $INFORMIXDIR/release/TOOLREL_6.03 entitled: 36970: MENU COMMAND KEY CONFLICTS AND NEW ERROR NUMBER -1176 *Please* read it. >Attached below is a example program that demonstrates the error if the >remarked out "Exit" command option is used instead of the 3 separate exit >commands that follow it. It's no "error" -- 4GL is doing the right thing, something it failed to do before 4.14/6.02. You have a COMMAND entry and a COMMAND KEY entry that are colliding on the 'e' initial keystroke. This is illegal (and just plain illogical to attempt). >Has anyone seen this before? > >BTW: this code (with the offending line enabled) works on SCO using >INFORMIX 4GL 6.01.UD5 and online 7.10.UC2, also runs fine on HP using 4GL >4.10, 4.12 and on sco using same 4GL versions. It "runs fine" on those releases if you never actually lead with the 'e' keystroke! If you *did*, you'd get a botched continuation prompt. Please, folks: READ the release notes before switching versions. Some of us take great care in preparing them for just this reason. >Alan Goodman | Data Systems Support -- (c) 1996 Alan Denney aland@informix.com Amount former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski of Chicago was fined for his mail-fraud convictions: $100,000 Amount he will continue to draw from a Congressional pension even while in prison: $100,000 per year.