Error message hijacking my message popup.

Peter_T

I want to display a message to the user, letting them know why a page cannot be edited. But when I put in something like:

OnAfterGetCurrRecord()
  IF (CurrPage.EDITABLE = FALSE) THEN
    MESSAGE('some message');

Then i instead get an error message saying: "Server page is not open. Page <page name> must close." (<page name> being the previous page that runs the current page)
Note that this error only appears when I try to display a message, and when dismissed, the page displays as normal, except the message i wanted to show never appears.

Currently I have "solved" it like this:

OnAfterGetCurrRecord()
  IF (CurrPage.EDITABLE = FALSE) THEN BEGIN
    MESSAGE('');
    MESSAGE('some message');
  END;

With the empty message sort of "catching" the error, meaning both the error and my message get displayed.

Has anyone experienced something like this before?

kriki

You shouldn't put messages in the OnAfterGetCurrRecord....
If a user wants to know why the current record is not editable, use an action that gives the message.