I probably did.... while this was posting, I went in the string and pulled the line together into one LONG line (removing the ';'s)
and it did ok.

Guess it WAS more than 255 long with all the extra spacing at the beginning and end.....

Thanks!

>I guess you exceeded 255 character limit on string literal
>Try

>TEXT TO lcForeColor NOSHOW PRETEXT 15
>IIF(tReorder.Quan_ship = 0, RGB(255,255,255), 
>		IIF(tReorder.Quan_ship < tReorder.Quan_Onord, RGB(0,0,0), 
>		IIF(tReorder.Quan_ship = tReorder.Quan_Onord, RGB(0,0,0), 
>		IIF(tReorder.Quan_ship > tReorder.Quan_Onord, RGB(0,0,0), RGB(0,0,0)))))
>ENDTEXT
>

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>>Question.
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>>I was trying to change the code in the snippet below... for a method called m_getgridbackground
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>>The original code is commented out... and the changed code is below that.
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>>The change I made was to change the reorder table name to tReorder.
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>>When I do this, and try to go to another method, Foxpro throws up an error...
>>
>>"COMPILE Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword"...
>>
>>What the????
>>
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