Gary,

You should probably have SET DECIMALS to at least 3, it defaults to 2

>His docs say if an invalid field is passed in, the control will return -999.999.
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>In VFP 5.0a I'm getting -1000 back. I threw together a quick VB form and called the method with an invalid field yet I got -999.999 back as expected.
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>Anyone have any idea why I would be getting different results from the 2 languages? Sorry I don't have more info on the control.