Replace All in Cost Item

Problem

Doing Replace All to change the Pricing Method field for Cost Items causes a quit after doing a few items. This problem occurs only in version 2.8 of Goldenseal construction estimating software.

Diagnosis

User is using Replace All in Cost Items in version 2.8 of Goldenseal construction estimating software, replacing the Pricing Method value. It runs a bit and then quits unexpectedly.

Solution

A bug, fixed in version 2.9 of Goldenseal estimating software.

This will happen only if they are doing the replace on more than 30 items, when it hits something which updates more than 20 assemblies. The second progress dialog wipes out the first one, which then gives a nil pointer error when we try to update a dialog that no longer exists.

As a workaround, they could do the replace in smaller batchs. Doing Replace All on fewer than 30 items won't cause the first progress bar to appear, so the second one won't cause any problems.

NOTE-- When we fixed this bug, we did it generically, so similar problems should not happen elsewhere either. This problem of multiple progress bars could have easily caused crashes in other obscure operations.

Comments

Entered 6/16/04 by Casey. Updated 11/2/2010.