Hello All, Happy New Year

Well I dont think I ever encountered this before, and yet its so simple and stupid, its a real gotcha problem.

I am calling a CATALYST - window (collector) in a program which returns a password for access into a section.

After that I ask for a number input from the user using a simple

msg with 'RC',

Problem is the program skips over the input????

SOULUTION

Well I think the problem lies in the catalyst call, probably in the

WC window variables, but if I call WC variables in the program it will

give me an error since the program is not called from a window.

So the problem is how to reset the variable causing the program to skip over the msg('','RC') call.

I already tried @ans, @pseudo and @record, none work.

I am also thinking scribe might have something to do with this, I will

check further.

THIS WORKS

Only other soulution I came up with is to ask for user input first

then verify the password after before allowing the program to continue, but this to me is sloppy and not the effect I am after.

ALL COMMENTS WILL BE APPRECIATED!! :)

Check @DATA and @PLAYBACK are both null.

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@data is already blank and so is @playback

but good try, I forgot about the @data

never used playback before???

INTERESTING FOOTNOTE

Placing a debug statement before the msg, then when program breaks I just press G for go and then the MSG user input works :)

Well as I mentioned I tried using debug which showed @data as blank

and I mentioned that as an interesting thing, debug then Pressing G

made it work.

So then I thought ok, @data gets erased the minute you go into debug

and sure enough thats it,

So putting @data=' in my routine works nicely.

Thanks for your help!!! :)

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