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VFP Changes its mind over Checkbox
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04/07/2006 07:00:37
 
 
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04/07/2006 06:36:25
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01133547
Message ID:
01133553
Views:
15
>Terry,
>
>Checkboxes can have 3 values
>
>if (vartype(m.this.Value) == T_LOGICAL )
> TRUE, FALSE or NULL
>
>else >> Numeric
> 0, 1, or 2= null
>endif
>
>If, in your case it can only be true/false or 0/1, use empty(m.this.Value)
>
>You can force its type to be logical by
> (1) binding it to a logical Field, or
> (2) if it does not have a controlsource, setting its default value to .T./.F. in the class

Hi Greg

Yes I knew this (as I indicated in my spiel), and that one can set the default value (as I said I now have done), etc. My beef is that I put the checkbox on the form, wrote code to accommodate it, then it went and changed its data type from T/F to 1/0.

Cheers

Terry
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