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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Clarion 6.3.9059 Caution

There's a bug in Clarion 6.3.9059 with the CREATE() control function. We use this function with the CHT QueryParsingFilterControl to create a dropdown or an entry control depending on how you've configured the template.

The end result of this bug is a query control that accepts only 20 characters max. This bug has been reported to SV, confirmed, and I'm told, sent immediately to development.

In the meantime, if you're not using 9059 just yet, I suggest you hold off for the next release of it.

I have managed to build a work-around for this using alternate controls, which I will post this evening. The workaround requires nothing from you but a re-generate/re-compile so if you decide to stay with 9059, no harm done.
Apparently this was not in the original 9059 that I was given several months back. It was a change that resulted from an earlier bug report by another developer and introduced into the most recent 9059 general pre-release version.

BTW, my workaround works with earlier versions of C6 too so there's no harm in having it.

Cheers...

Gus Creces
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November 20, 2008

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