Answers Database Design Manager 6.0.1: System Error, Unhandled Exception: Subscript out of bounds. Record #716 Product Family: Software Product Line: M1 Graphical/General Product Part: Design Manager Product Version: 6.0.1 Problem Title: Design Manager 6.0.1: System Error, Unhandled Exception: Subscript out of bounds. Problem Description: When invoking the Design Manager, after displaying the copyright splash screen, a System Error occurs with the following message: Unhandled exception: Subscript out of bounds: TwoByteString(Object)>>subscriptBoundsError: TwoByteString(Object)>>basicAt: TwoByteString>>at: ISO8859L1 String class(ByteEncodedString class)>>decode: Win32Interface>>getDosEnvironmentAsArrayOfStrings Cause: When the Design Manager is invoked, it makes a system call to read the environment variables. If there are any environment variables defined which contain control or escape characters, the Design Manager will fail with the above error. For example, the string "$e" indicates an escape sequence in the definition of an environment variable. The following is an example of an environment variable and its setting from an autoexec.bat known to cause the above failure in the Design Manager: PROMPT $p $e[1mp$g$e[0m$e[32m$e[K Solution 1: Modify the environment variable and remove the offending control or escape characters. In the above example, the following redefinition of the PROMPT variable corrects the problem: PROMPT $p$g Solution 2: Close the Design Manager. Open the DSGNMGR.INI file using any text editor(ex: Notepad, DOS editor). The file should be in WIN DOWS directory if the software is running under windows and WIN95 directory if it is under windows 9 5. Delete the 'CURRENT=C:\...\project_name.prj'..' line from the file. Open the Design Manager again and open the same project_name.prj file. End of Record #716 - Last Modified: 01/15/97 19:59

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