The documentation says to make the call Set_Status(0) to clear any previous status. I had assumed, therefore, that this call would return with Status=". However, my testing shows that in the expression

Status=Set_Status(0),

Status is being returned as 1. Confusing, isn't it?

Maybe it comes back as 1 to let you know the operation was successful?

did you check error_flag ?? i agree that it 'appears' off but there have been other functions that are true when would seem false would be correct .. the original oi guys .. and even arev and rev .. didn't map out all the functions and define the return vars .. think it was done on the fly ..

Syntax

status=Set_Status(error_flag, status_code, status_arguments)

error_flag

The termination status of the stored procedure. Valid error_flags are:

Code  Description

1. 1 Append status_code and status_arguments to the existing list. Do not change error_flag.

0     Procedure terminated normally (clears the status).

1     Procedure terminated abnormally.

Gerald,

On my system:

   call set_Status( 0 )
   x=get_Status( errorText )

x contains 0. If x contains 1 in your case then I can only assume that there's something else happening. Do you know if this is going through the custom zzx_Set_Status() layer?

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I suspect I have been misunderstood. The call

Status=Get_Status( Error )

returns status=0 on my system, provided no error has occurred. I am questioning an issue with Set_Status, which is prototyped as a function call in the Revelation documentation. The documentation implies that status is cleared by the call

Status=Set_Status(0)

when in fact the value of status returned by Set_Status is 1. (Or at least, it is "1" when using the zzx_Set_Status() function, as you correctly assume.) Possibly this is just a confusion in how the documentation is written, where "Status" is used to mean multiple things. It did cause me a confusing program bug, however.

It is functioning correctly. The 1 returned from set_status() lets you know that set_status() executed OK. You can ignore this using

 call set_status(0)

or

 set_status(0)

or you can catch the value into any variable:

 ok=set_status(0) 

or

 thisvalueisirrelevant=set_status(0)

any of these set the error code returned from get_status() to zero.

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