Recompiling quiz programs

[Regan, John]

The old subfiles also got me on a conversion.  Once deleted, or calling out
the old format in the code if required to save the subfile, my programs
worked fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Merol Newman [mailto:meroln@specialist.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 11:13 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: FW: Recompiling quiz programs



I think I sent this to the wrong address first time - sorry if you get it
twice.
 
Hello Jackie

When you said your problem arose just after an upgrade, it confirmed a
suspicion
I had yesterday.

Some PH upgrades involve changes to subfile format, and when the quiz is
recompiled using subfiles already existing from the previous version, I've
got a
vague feeling that it just doesn't write any records when you run it (in a
different place from where it was compiled, perhaps, with no existing
subfiles
to cause an obvious error in trying to overwrite the subfile, as you would
get
if you had changed the subfile items, for instance).

I tried to find an example in my records, but can't track one down easily. I
just vaguely remember that there was no indication of what had gone wrong.

When you recompile the quiz and it works, you are perhaps in a different
directory, where the old-format subfiles don't exist. So in future, when you
recompile after a PH upgrade, it's a good idea to delete the old subfiles
first.

I may be wrong, but it's worth a try!

regards
Merol

Merol Newman
E-mail: meroln@specialist.co.uk <mailto:meroln@specialist.co.uk>

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