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Re: [ECS] Help with Log States Don Stephens Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:40:06 -0800

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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael David <michaeld@michaeldavid.com>
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 4:36 AM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Help with Log States

OK, Now I know you never sleep. I'm going to drop out of ECS as soon as
everyone is up and try a bare bones .cfg file and will let you know if that
helped.

Thanks again.


>Hi Don!
>
>Ok, it's a head-scratcher.
>
>>It won't let me type it in the group page without generating the error
>>message "Value 256 is not a legal selection ("Test Event line 2")
>
>That error is pointing to line two of your event, which, according to an
>earlier email is:
> > |       Then    Event-Exit              Set             True
>
>Right?  That's really weird!  If event-exit wasn't working right, then your
>whole .cfg would be screwed.  Perhaps you've changed your event, and
>"Status.log" is now on line two?  We'll ignore that for the moment.
>
>Where you saying that just simply calling up "Status.Log" on the group page
>generates that error?  Even before you try to change its state? That makes
>no sense.  Unless....
>
>Hey - what is your current text item count, and your max text item count.
>Was Status.Log the last text item you created, and did it max out your text
>item count?  I seem to remember that I had a problem once where I created a
>text item that maxed out my count, and it generated some weird error.  So,
I
>deleted the item, raised my text item count, restarted, created the item
>again, and all was well.   I never reported it because I forgot to go back
>and make sure it was a repeatable error.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Michael David
>michael@michaeldavid.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Stephens [mailto:don@sb.net]
>Sent: Sunday, October 25, 1998 1:48 AM
>To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
>Subject: Re: [ECS] Help with Log States
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael David <michaeld@michaeldavid.com>
>To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
>Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 10:33 PM
>Subject: RE: [ECS] Help with Log States
>
>
>>Hi Don!
>>
>>Are you using the latest beta?  I have found a few weird things where
event
>>lines didn't quite work as expected.  One of the anomalies was when I had
>>punctuation in the item name.  So, you might take the "." out of the state
>>name and see if that helps.
>
>No...I'm using 3.4.024 Took the "." out of the name but didn't help
>
>
>>
>>Is ECS generating an error on this line?: Do    Status.Log     Set     Log
>>States
>
>
>Yes it is
>>
>>You're sure Status.log is a text item right?  You have the "@" before the
>>file name right?  I know you said Status.log and Status Report were the
>>same; just thought I'd check.
>
>I've tried it as a file item, as a text item without a "@", and with the
>leading @.
>
>>
>>Try this:  Go to the group page, and call up Status.log on a blank line.
>>Now, tab though the states until you get to "log states" and hit <return>.
>>Did that work?  Or, did you get the same error?
>
>It won't let me type it in the group page without generating the error
>message "Value 256 is not a legal selection ("Test Event line 2")
>
>>
>>Hey, you don't have some other item named  "Log States" do you?
>
>ECS wouldn't let that happen, and I renamed it anyway.
>
>>
>>I'm going to bed now....  Good Luck!  :)
>
>
>Me too, and here it's three hours earlier! Thanks for the help.
>
>Don
>
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