Hi,

So what's the value of lnResult? Anything useful in AERROR()?
Regards,
Viv

>>Have you looked at COMARRAY()?
>
>Yup, I did too... to no avail...
>
>I just can't 'get' or capture the returned value from the Export method of the object PTEMPLATE.
>
>In the Digital Persona documentation, the Export method is supposed to return a "blob of byte array"...
>
>Below, is the latest code I have:
>
>

>*** ActiveX Control Event ***
>LPARAMETERS ptemplate
>
>LOCAL lbFingerPrnt, lnResult, laFingerPrint
>
>WAIT WINDOW NOWAIT "Creating Employee Record..." NOCLEAR
>
>COMARRAY( ptemplate, 10+1000 )   && I tried diff parameter combinations here
>
>laFingerPrint = ""               && also used CREATEBINARY( " " )... to no avail either
>
>lnResult = ptemplate.Export( @laFingerPrint )
>
>IF lnResult # Er_OK
>   MESSAGEBOX( "Error in getting Registration Template" )
>   RETURN
>ENDIF
>
>IF EMPTY( laFingerPrint )
>   MESSAGEBOX( "Empty FINGERPRNT blob value!" )
>   RETURN
>ELSE
>   MESSAGEBOX( "Hurray! FINGERPRNT blob value detected!" )
>ENDIF
>
>APPEND BLANK IN employee
>REPLACE employee.lastname WITH thisform.txtLastname.Value,;
>        employee.firstname WITH thisform.txtFirstname.Value,;
>        employee.fingerprnt WITH laFingerPrint
>
>WAIT CLEAR
>
>

>
>Thanks for any help...
>
>Happy Holidays!
>
>Dennis
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Have you looked at COMARRAY()?
>>>Hi Everybody,
>>>
>>>I am tinkering with a fingerprint scanner ActiveX control (Digital Persona).
>>>
>>>Instantiating, dropping and working with it seems to go on smoothly... till the last event called Done(), where it passes a "Fingerprint Template - FPTemplate" object variable.
>>>
>>>This is the code I created in the ActiveX control's Done() event:
>>>
>>>

>>>*** ActiveX Control Event ***
>>>LPARAMETERS ptemplate
>>>
>>>LOCAL lblobFingerPrnt, lnResult
>>>
>>>WAIT WINDOW NOWAIT "Creating Employee Record..." NOCLEAR
>
>>>
>>>lnResult = ptemplate.Export( @lblobFingerPrnt )
>>>
>>>IF lnResult # Er_OK
>>>   MESSAGEBOX( "Error in getting Registration Template" )
>>>   RETURN
>>>ENDIF
>>>
>>>APPEND BLANK IN employee
>>>replace employee.lastname WITH thisform.txtLastname.Value,;
>>>        employee.firstname WITH thisform.txtFirstname.Value,;
>>>        employee.fingerprnt WITH lblobFingerPrnt
>>>
>>>WAIT CLEAR
>>>

>>>
>>>I get "Data type mismatch" using the above. Going thru the Debugger, the value of variable lblobFingerPrnt is always .F. and is never updated even when invoking the Export method.
>>>
>>>This 'ptemplate' object variable, as per it's documentation, has an Export method, like so:
>>>
>>>

>>>Export([out] VARIANT* pVal, [out,retval] AIErrors *pErr)
>>>
>>>* Exports the template object as a signed blob of bytes.
>>>* This may then be saved by the developer in the database of his choice.
>>>

>>>
>>>HELP! Obviously it has something to do with a VARIANT data type. Furthermore, the employee.fingerprnt field is of Blob type. Could this be wrong?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>Happy Holidays! Cheers!
>>>
>>>Dennis