Plain English error messages, PLEASE

What does this mean?:

“…Examine the SQLWarnings chained to this exception for the reason(s).”

Is English that hard to write? Where praytell are the chains, or the exceptions that are supposedly binding them?

“Things screwed up” would at least be in English, and be just as informative as this is to me right now.

Is there some secret directory or something where I can go look for details?

Well, I am not a native speaker but I would guess there could be an error code (if generated by the database) somewhere in this message that came out of your database.

I don’t really see the issue. The issue I do see is the way you communicate your frustration. You can just ask for clarification. Is that so hard to do?

After a week of trying to mount the learning curve, frustration is exactly what I’m expressing. It wasn’t my intention to insult anyone, though, so I apologize if I somehow did.

This IS quite frustrating, though. I see this message in roughly one third of the error messages from Servoy.

The message tells me to examine SQLWarnings. I would love to do that, as there’s obviously a problem to be fixed. Where are those warnings, though? Can you or someone else clarify this?

If there is a message you should see that if you click the button for more info (don’t know the exact naming at the moment).

But, you can also show/explain us what you are trying to do so we can assist you…

As for the rest. Thanks for the apoligies. Subject closed :-)

Likewise.

This is actually the message I get when I hit the “Details” button.

Its part of several error messages. F’rinstance “Login Failed” or various “Javalang…” errrors. It implies that there’s more information somewhere else…

OK, while trying to come up with a specific example for you, I noticed something… This error shows up for login failures to ASA, but not to, for example, FireBird.

Perhaps I should go vent on an ASA forum instead. :wink:

hmmm, from what you say here you are trying to login to the asa server without any luck. Is that the case?

I’d still like to have that example to see if I can help you…

I’ve since logged in successfully. I’ve seen the error in other areas, too.

In general, probably due to me still learning, I feel like I’m applying a lot of “voodoo” solutions: I fix things, but in the end I’m not sure what was wrong in the first place. Error messages written at, say, a third-grade level would sure help right about now! :wink:

I was hoping that somone knew where I could read those SQL warnings for ANY error message. It appears, though, that that’s just a generic warning from ASA. :(

Thanks for trying, anyway. And don’t worry; at the rate I’m going there will be plenty of specific challenges to report! :roll: Going from “guru” to “newbie” hasn’t been easy, but I’ll get the hang of this yet!

What platform?

When do you get the error?

Is your Sybase server running when Servoy starts up?

TIP: ALL errors relating to sybase connection stuff is held in a “sybase_log.txt” file that’s in your “sybase_db” folder. ALWAYS start there.

There is also a “.log.txt” file in the root of your Servoy folder that will tell you any application errors. If you post both of those - we can help.

Cheers,

Bob Cusick

Thank you, Bob!

I don’t currently have open issues - in spite of myself I’ve solved them.

Finding those logs WAS my problem… Well, that and not even knowing that the logs existed… It should be MUCH easier for me to troubleshoot future issues.

To all the readers who thought, “He can’t be that stupid. He must know where those are…” Thank you for overestimating me. :wink:

I’m sure this is documented somewhere, but I’m reading as fast as I can…

Not a problem! There is a lot to learn.

TIP: Give yourself a BREAK. :D

You can’t learn a foreign language in one day… it takes some time and experimentation. The trouble with learning a programming paradigm is that it’s binary - it works or not. It’s the “not” part that can be frustrating…

Hang in there!

Cheers,

Bob Cusick