Case of disappearing field .. Foxpro 5 :(
I am trying to add a field to a Foxpro table, as I have done before.
The field is saved, I run the program once - no issue. The field is populated. Then the field disappears! And the program crashes. "Variable not Found"
I have tried it both within the Table Designer and with the following code:
USE c:\vetdata\ckBreedScrub.db
alter tABLE c:\vetdata\ckBreedScrub ADD COLUMN defaultdir c(30)
The table has 114 fields, so it is not maxed out according to Foxpro's limitations.
This is insane. Now I am insane after 2 hours of FRUSTRATION trying to simply add a simple field!
Attached are screen shots of errors, etc. I am baffled. And now I've spent another 20 minutes making screen shots and posting this. AARGH!
TableProperties1.jpg
TableProperties2.jpg
PopulatedTable.jpg
Variable-Not-Found.jpg
The field is saved, I run the program once - no issue. The field is populated. Then the field disappears! And the program crashes. "Variable not Found"
I have tried it both within the Table Designer and with the following code:
USE c:\vetdata\ckBreedScrub.db
alter tABLE c:\vetdata\ckBreedScrub ADD COLUMN defaultdir c(30)
The table has 114 fields, so it is not maxed out according to Foxpro's limitations.
This is insane. Now I am insane after 2 hours of FRUSTRATION trying to simply add a simple field!
Attached are screen shots of errors, etc. I am baffled. And now I've spent another 20 minutes making screen shots and posting this. AARGH!
TableProperties1.jpg
TableProperties2.jpg
PopulatedTable.jpg
Variable-Not-Found.jpg
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And thank you so much!
You are welcome! If everything would be so simple...
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The code is creating a new ckBreedScrub table every time it runs from a template, required for weekly production for a particular mail file in a particular directory.
USE c:\vetdata\templates\ckBre
select ckBreedScrub
COPY STRUCTURE TO c:\vetdata\ckBreedScrub.db
What I needed to do was modify the structure of the template table, which I had done once before. Brain hiccup! I was modifying the table that was created by the code, and overwritten each time it ran. Crappola.
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