Hilmar

Thanks for the quick reply. I don't think lnCount can be the wrong type. The loop looks like this:

local lnCount
lnCount = 0
scan
lnCount = lnCount + 1
WAIT WINDOW 'Working on record: '+str(lnCount) TIMEOUT.2
... more code...
endscan

Also, even if it were the wrong type, why the fatal error and not one trapped within VFP?

As for the timeout, I found slowing this down helped ease some record contention problems (I know it was kludgy but at the time it seemed to help...<s>).

I do agree separating out the str() call my help and I appreciate your thoughts.

-- Larry


>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've got an installed application recently upgraded to VFP7 that has kicked out the following error twice:
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>>"fatal error - exception code C0000005"
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>>When I look at the line of the "called from" routine, I find the innocuous line: WAIT WINDOW 'Working on record: '+str(lnCount) TIMEOUT.2
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>>This line was inserted to slow down a loop that was batch processing some records. The whole thing appears to work 99% of the time.
>>
>>Any ideas what could cause this error intermittently on such a simple line of code?
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>The command can fail if lnCount is of the wrong type. Separate this into two commands:
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>local lcMessage
>lcMessage = "Working on record: " + str(lnCount)
>wait window lcMessage timeout 0.2
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>
>Or use trans() instead of str():
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>

>wait window "Working on record: " + trans(lnCount) timeout 0.2
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>Also, why the timeout?
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>scan
>  wait window "Working on record: " + trans(lnCount) nowait
>endscan
>wait clear
>