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Resolved Not Workink Timer PB2019 R2

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  1. Fernando Leal
    Fernando Leal
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  3. Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:19 PM UTC

Hi All, 

We need your help, please.

We have a problem when call the timer in PB2019 R2, the timer return "-1" state , Do you no know what is the problem and the solution?

 

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int li_log_timer
li_log_timer = timer(ide_timer_seg, w_pesado_proceso_balanza_tercero)

li_log_timer = -1 (this is the return state)

 

thanks and regards,

Fernando.

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Alonso Cervantes
Alonso Cervantes Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 16 December 2020 18:36 PM UTC
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Hello

I am having the same issue, My app that sends emails, I'm using the timer event of the window to call a function that retrieves info from database and sends emails, this app was working perfectly in PB 2019 R1, I updated PB2019 to R2 build 2353 and my app stop working on the pc's that has been deployed, the timer event of the window never fires, and I cannot replicate in design mode because it works fine.

Fernando, would you tell me what did you do to solve this? / Me podria decir que hizo para resolver este problema?.

 

Gracias, apreciaria mucho su ayuda!

Alonso

 

 

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:45 PM UTC
Hi guys ... FWIW: you should be using PB's built-in "Timing" object class for that type of application (see the PB Help).
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Alonso Cervantes
  1. Alonso Cervantes
  2. Wednesday, 16 December 2020 22:07 PM UTC
Chris,



That's what I'm being using,I founded out that the problem has to be with PB's Runtime, I have uninstalled and deleted all trace of PB 11.5 and PB2019 R1 Runtimes and Reinstalled PB 2019 R2 Runtime and finally worked!.



Thanks for your reply.



Alonso



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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:16 PM UTC
Hi Alonso;

Ahhhh.... a comnon mistake that many PB developers have made throughout PB's many releases. When you install more that one PB version, you need to make sure that you check your O/S's "System Path" after the installation process to make sure that the higher PB Version is *first* in the library path. Most PB runtime DLL's are numbered but some are not. Typically, these non-numbered runtime DLL's are downward compatible at runtime but *not* upward compatible. If a higher PB version App picks up a lower non-numbered DLL at runtime, the App may not behave properly (as you are now experiencing). HTH

Regards ... Chris
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Olan Knight
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  1. Thursday, 22 October 2020 00:43 AM UTC
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POST the call to the timer from the OPEN event.

Olan

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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Thursday, 22 October 2020 14:36 PM UTC
Don't know about that Olan. If his 'delay' on the open event to finish is DB related or a user has a slower computer, on a "bad" day the 1 or 2 seconds timer start failing again. The best thing is your POST to call the timer.

2cts.
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Thursday, 22 October 2020 14:39 PM UTC
Hi Miguel ... correct, the Window is probably still completing its instantiation processing when the 1st timer event tries to fire. Thus, a processing conflict occurs.

FWIW: I have never used the Open event to initialize Window processing for over two decades now. I have always used a PostOpen user event for that. I would hardily recommend this approach for all PB Apps. This has saved my PB Apps from being sensitive to changes in event order processing changes - which has been an ongoing challenge since even way back into the PowerSoft days of PB. ;-)
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Fernando Leal
  1. Fernando Leal
  2. Friday, 23 October 2020 14:39 PM UTC
Hi All,

I have created an event and call the Timer from the button and it works fine.

From my PC, which is where I develop the application, the Timer works either from the PBL or PBD.

On the PC where I copy the PDBs, which is a windows 10, the timer doesn't work and I don't know why this never happened to me or I saw it.

thanks and regards,

Fernando

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John Fauss
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  1. Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:47 PM UTC
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Hi, Fernando -

(1) What is the value of ide_timer_seg? Can you temporarily replace this variable reference with an equivalent hard-coded constant, such as 10, for example?

(2) Is the global reference variable w_pesado_proceso_balanza_tercero valid? It may or may not be valid depending on the coding technique used to open the window. I suggest you precede the Timer function call with an IsValid(w_pesado_proceso_balanza_tercero) function call in an If statement. For example:

If IsValid(w_pesado_proceso_balanza_tercero) Then
   li_rc = Timer(10,w_pesado_proceso_balanza_tercero)
Else
   MessageBox('Oops!','The window reference variable is not valid.')
End if

Regards, John

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Fernando Leal
  1. Fernando Leal
  2. Wednesday, 21 October 2020 19:02 PM UTC
Hi John,

We change the code, the problem is the timer never run. We don´t Know why is the problem.

This code is in Windows Open event.

int li_log_timer

li_log_timer =timer(0.3)



thanks and regards,

Fernando.



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Chris Pollach @Appeon
Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:47 PM UTC
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Hi Fernando;

  Typically, this occurs when ...

1) First argument is negative value

2) Second argument is not a valid window pointer

Regards ... Chris

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Monday, 26 October 2020 17:08 PM UTC
Hi Fernando;

I cannot replicate this timer issue on my R2 test App EXE's on W10.

I am using PB2019 R2 build 2353

Regards ... Chris
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Fernando Leal
  1. Fernando Leal
  2. Tuesday, 27 October 2020 19:57 PM UTC
Hi Chris, this issue was solved because I am using no visual object Timing.

thanks and regards,

Fernando.

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:32 PM UTC
Hi Fernando .. that is "awesome" news & thanks for the feedback! :-)
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