>I think I've found the problem. Do you invke the procedure with DO...WITH...? Passing a PUBLIC by REFERENCE (the default) results in the PUBLIC being hidden. the following code snippet demonstrates this nicely:
>
>

>PUBLIC cTest
>cTest = 'ByRef'
>DO MyFunc WITH cTest
>ctest = 'ByVal'
>=MyFunc(cTest)
>CANCEL
>
>PROCEDURE MyFunc
>LPARAMETER uVar
>? uVar
>? 'The type of the parameter is',TYPE('uVar')
>? 'The type of the PUBLIC cTest is',TYPE('cTest')
>RETURN
>

>
>You can force a pass by value by invoking the procedure as a function, or by enclosing the argument to the WITH in parentheses to force a pass by value. This behavior of PUBLICs passed by reference is actually documented somewhere...


Hi,

The above is quite true when you you send parameters by reference, but I send the parameters by value (SET UDFPARMS TO VALUE) and that's why it troubles me. The phenomena also occurs regardless of me using LPARAMETERS or PARAMETERS in the procedure.

Thanks...