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Title: Ask Reuben 161 - Fieldnames in Dialogs Post by: Reuben B. on February 17, 2023, 04:27:59 am As a Genero and Informix 4gl developer you have probably encountered at run time a -1119 “NEXT FIELD name not found in form”, or a -1129 “Field (fieldname) in BEFORE/AFTER clause not found in form” at least once in your lifetime.
Typically this has occurred because you have misspelt a field-name, either in the NEXT FIELD or BEFORE FIELD or AFTER FIELD block, or perhaps in the first line of the INPUT statement, or in the form itself. A question you could ask is, “Why is this typo being detected at runtime, and not before hand? either at compile time or as you are typing" The good news is that there has been an improvement in this area in the 4.01 release Read more at https://4js.com/ask-reuben/ig-161/ |