Error: "Cannot update the cursor" at Build

[SleepDepD]

Anyone else ever ran into this?

I'm trying to build my .APP (in VFP 7.0 SP1), with "Recompile All Files"--at the tail-end of the build process I get the error "Cannot update the cursor". Clicking "Help" just gives me "Cannot update the cursor (Error 111)"...not too helpful.

I appreciate the assistance. Thanks

 

[mspratt]

WAG - Did you copy your project from a CD or otherwise cause the .pjx to become read only?

Regards,

Mike

 

[Mike Lewis]

Sleep,

Ted Roche and Barbara Peisch have written a free utility that will tell you what the cause of the problem is. To get a copy, see the article, "Tracking down compilation errors", at:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk/foxst-31.htm

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

My Visual Foxpro web site:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk

My Crystal Reports web site:

http://www.ml-crystal.com

 

[SleepDepD]

Ooop...forgot something. My project is in Visual SourceSafe, so most the files in the project are read-only.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Sleep,

most the files in the project are read-only.

That would explain it. VFP needs to write the compiled code back to the meta tables, and it can't do that if the files are read-only.

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

My Visual Foxpro web site:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk

My Crystal Reports web site:

http://www.ml-crystal.com

 

[rgbean]

You'll probably want to verify the checkout "state" of the changed project files in a ProjectHook before you actually start the build. Check the FAQs - I seem to recall some sample code there.

Rick

 

[SleepDepD]

Okay--resolved: here's what I did.

I took off the read-only flag to all the files in the project. It built fine, then I got latest version for all the files (which reset the read-only flag on the ones it were supposed to have it). It still compiles fine.

I didn't figure out "THE PROBLEM", but at least I fixed it! Sometimes that's good enough for me...

Thanks for the help.

 

[Neil Toulouse]

You don't say how you 'took off the read-only flag' but to do it from SourceSafe you simply right-click on your project from the right hand pane and click on 'Check Out...'. Make sure the recursive tick-box is ticked for any sub projects, and click OK. When complete all files for the project will be writeable.

You then do the same thing again after the build but this time select 'Check in...'.

So what you experienced is 'normal' behaviour in this setup!

Neil

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