Re: updating informix

>> Subject: Re: updating informix >> To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu (Informix Bulletin Board) >> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 8:36:41 PST >> From: uunet!pdx.csd.mot.com!jmn (Jim Nielsen) >> >> I was in the process of upgrading a large application to 4GL 4.1 when >> I discovered that most of the display screens were getting fouled up. >> In 4.1, when returning from a lookup screen where a selection was made >> and the information was used to populate fields, the ring menu line would >> be displayed beginning at the upper left hand corner of where the lookup >> screen was. This occurred in nearly every instance where a lookup screen >> was used. If a small window was used for displaying warning messages >> (near the bottom of the screen) it would cause the ring menu to become >> skewed. Hmm. Sounds like a known bug. Try this: After closing your lookup window, run an OPTIONS statement to (re-)set your MENU and MESSAGE lines. For example, if you use the defaults for each, do this: ... CLOSE WINDOW tinted ===> OPTIONS MENU LINE FIRST, MESSAGE LINE FIRST+1 If that "fixes" it, you are probably looking at known bug #12343. >> In the meantime, I had to abort plans to upgrade and have remained on 4.0. >> There are, no doubt, ways of working around the problem, but the number >> of screens affected was so large, I decided to wait. >> >> Has anyone else noticed this problem? If so, what is the best way to code >> around it? I haven't found anything better than the above. If you email me with your platform details, I'll let you know if any maintenance ports with the fix are coming soon. >> Jim Nielsen Motorola Inc., Commercial Systems Division >> jmn@pdx.csd.mot.com . . . tektronix!reed!cvedc!mcspdx!jmn >> Voice: (503) 643-6247 . . . . uunet!apple!motcsd!mcspdx!jmn Honest, folks, 4.1 isn't nearly as bad as recent mailing list activity makes it appear. |-: There are some meneuing goofs, due to the fact that most of the menuing code was rewritten completely, and the quite ugly Bug 11768 (and the rather annoying Bug 11364: hangs in INPUT ARRAY when keying out of an AUTONEXT field). Aside from those, 4.1 has been quite good. If you are on 4.0 (or, <shudder!>, .03), I would recommend making sure that you move to a 4.1 with the 11768 fix (any 4.10.UC1 or UD1 is sure to *not* have it; otherwise, it varies on a port-by-port basis; email me for details). FourGen users can probably also get the 11768 info from FourGen. If you have a bugfix release (last digit > 1), you can tell what fixes have been added from the base port by looking at the MACHNOTES* file(s) in the "release" subdirectory of INFORMIXDIR. -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland Disclaimer: These opinions are mine alone. If I am caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of my actions. I personally have destroyed numerous perfectly good rooms by undertaking frenzied testosterone-induced efforts to fix them up despite the fact that I have the manual dexterity of an oyster. Hundreds of years from now, archaeologists will look at my home-improvement projects and say, "This civilization was apparently wiped out by a terrible natural disaster involving spackle." -- Dave Barry