Did you ever manage to solve this?

>I was wondering if anyone has a way to force Fox to strict data types? I have an ActiveX control that requires that a short integer (16bit according to Fox's DECLARE - DLL help command) and a long integer (32bit, ibid.) Does anyone know how to create such a data component.
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>Here is what I have tried:
> 1. Just using values:
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> shtVal = 0
> lngVal = 0
> = thisform.oControl.method(shtVal, lngVal)
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> 2. Setting charcter strings to the values
> shtVal = CHR(0) + CHR(0)
> lngVal = CHR(0) + CHR(0) + CHR(0) + CHR(0)
> = thisform.oControl.method(shtVal, lngVal)
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks for all your help.
>Ben Keene