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RE: [ECS] Help with Log States Ingo Pakleppa Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:46:12 -0700

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At the risk of stating the obvious, did you check Test Flag to make sure it
is True?

Ingo

At 12:39 AM 10/25/98 -0400, Michael David wrote:
>Hi Don!
>
>Yup - at least for a little while longer...
>
>Here's the items and event I whipped up to test this after I saw your post:
>
>|Item:TEST                      Type:On/Off
>Acc:User/User
>|	Initial State:(None)                                    Backup:No
>|Item:Log States                Type:Text
>Acc:User/User
>|	Initial State:(None)                                    Backup:No
>|	Text         :@states.log
>
>|Event: test                            Called ?:No
>|       If      TEST                    Is Now          On
>|       Then    Log States              Set             Log States
>|       Then    TEST                    Set             Off
>|       End
>
>
>This generated a file with a rather long list of items and states.
>What version of ECS are you running?
>Are you just getting a blank file?
>He you tried deleting it?  ECS should then make the file the nest time you
>set test flag to true.
>Is it possible that the file is being created in some other directory?
>Any reason why ECS wouldn't be able/allowed to create the file on your
>computer?
>
>I can't really think of why it isn't working.  It is rather fool-proof.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Michael David
>michael@michaeldavid.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Don Stephens [mailto:don@sb.net]
>Sent:	Sunday, October 25, 1998 12:20 AM
>To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
>Subject:	Re: [ECS] Help with Log States
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael David <michael@michaeldavid.com>
>To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
>Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 9:04 PM
>Subject: RE: [ECS] Help with Log States
>
>Hey! You are up. this is my item and event.
>
>Thanks:
>Don
>
>
>|Item:Status Report             Type:File
>Acc:User/User
>| Initial State:(None)                                    Backup:No
>| File         :@status.log
>
>
>
>|Event: Test Event                      Called ?:No
>|       If      Test Flag               Is              False
>|       Then    Event-Exit              Set             True
>|       Do      Status.Log              Set             Log States
>|       Do      Test Flag               Set             False
>|       End
>
>
>
>
>
>>Hi Don!
>>
>>Hmm, it works for me.  What's your whole event look like?
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Michael David
>>michael@michaeldavid.com
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Don Stephens [mailto:don@sb.net]
>>Sent: Saturday, October 24, 1998 11:39 PM
>>To: ECS LIST
>>Subject: [ECS] Help with Log States
>>
>>Hi:
>> I'm trying to get  a text item to report states of all items. I've created
>>an Item called status.log which I've defined as a text item. I'm using the
>>following
>>
>>| Item: Status.Log                Type:Text
>>Acc:User/User
>>| Initial State:(None)                                    Backup:No
>>| Text :@status.log
>>
>>to create the log I thought I'd do the following
>>
>>Do       status.log           set             log states
>>
>>What am I missing here? This plain doesn't work.
>>
>>Thanks;
>>Don
>>
>>
>>
>>
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