Hi Ed and Jason,

>It started to create an Object, so VARTYPE() became "O"; it did not instantiate so it's content became NULL. I'd bet that ISNULL(thisform.TextBox1.Text2) returned .T., too.

If it were, it would still be a bug, VarType()'s second parameter:

If lNullDataType is false (.F.) or omitted, VARTYPE( ) returns 'X', indicating that eExpression contains the null value.