Informix Error -50131: Display buffer is full - clear it?

Reasons / Common Causes

-50131 is raised by the ixApp class in the Window Painter GUI builder library — per the official guidance:

This message from ixApp occurs when enough DISPLAY statements have been executed to fill the display viewer. If you answer OK, the viewer is cleared, and the text from the current DISPLAY statement is written to it. If you answer Cancel, the viewer is unchanged and the text of the current DISPLAY is discarded.

1. Display buffer is full - clear it?, per the official guidance — the direct, documented condition.

Solutions / Resolution

1. Adjust the calling code to respect the constraint named in the message, per the official guidance — no other resolution is documented.

Examples

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No specific triggering statement is documented beyond the class-library condition described above.

Diagnostic Checks

1. Check the specific value, object state, or call sequence that ixApp flags here, against the constraint the official guidance describes.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -50130 — "An attempt was made to close a window while a modal popup window contained by it was still being shown. This is not allowed; close the modal popup window first." Another ixApp-related condition in this set.
• -50127 — "Resources to allocate an object were unavailable." Another ixApp-related condition in this set.

Display buffer is full - clear it?