Consultor Eletrônico

Status: Unverified

SYMPTOM(s):

4GL/ABL: First blank line gets deleted in an EDITOR widget

Executing the following code:

DEFINE VARIABLE v_s AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.
UPDATE v_s VIEW-AS EDITOR INNER-LINES 5 INNER-CHARS 50.
UPDATE v_s VIEW-AS EDITOR INNER-LINES 5 INNER-CHARS 50.

When the user in response to the first UPDATE statement, the user enters:
1 ENTER ENTER , 2 ENTER ENTER and 3 ENTER ENTER, the display is as expected looks like the following:
1

2

3

When the user hits F1 to start typing in response to the second UPDATE statement, the display gets corrupted and looks like the following:
1
2

3

Issue could not be reproduced on Progress in house test machines.

FACT(s) (Environment):

Issue could not be reproduced on other Linux systems
Red Hat Linux
OpenEdge 10.2A

CHANGE:

Installed OpenEdge 10.2A on top of an earlier OpenEdge version.

CAUSE:

The exact cause is unknown at the time of this writing

FIX:

Some unknown operating system setting was causing this behavior. Uninstall the operating system and reinstall a fresh copy of the operating system and OpenEdge