>>A long time ago I got into the habit of never assuming whether a dropdown combobox would return vartype C or N when I was expecting N.
>>
>>So, when retrieving what I want to be a numeric value I do:
>>
>>lnValue=val(transform(thisform.cbo.value))
>>
>>doing it this way, I don't have to test for vartype
>>
>>I came across a quirk yesterday.
>>
>>I have a combobox on a form that has a rowsourcetype as 3 - SQL Statement
>>
>>the SQL statement does select somecharfield,someintfield from sometable into cursor somecursor
>>
>>BoundTo=.T.
>>BoundColumn=2
>>ControlSource=thisform.nValue
>>
>>When someintfield = 1234567
>>then
>>val(transform(thisform.cbo.value))=1234567
>>val(transform(thisform.nvalue))=1234567
>>
>>However:
>>When someintfield=12345678
>>then
>>val(transform(thisform.cbo.value))=0
>>but,
>>val(transform(thisform.nValue))=12345678
>>
>>checking into this further
>>thisform.cbo.value=12345678.0
>>thisform.nValue=12345678.00
>>
>>and
>>
>>transform(thisform.cbo.value)="*******.**"
>>transform(thisform.nValue)="12345678"
>>
>>but if I
>>transform(12345678.0)="12345678"
>>
>>
>>What. The. Hell.?
>
>Is there a ControlSource for the combo? Might the longer value have overflowed the ControlSource?
>
>Tamar


ControlSource=thisform.nValue

and

transform(thisform.cbo.value)="*******.**"
but
transform(thisform.nValue)="12345678"