>Sorry about that folks...I managed to answer my own question..but it disturbs me. Why does this work ?
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>LOCAL loErr
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>loErr = this
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>ON ERROR loErr.adoconnectionerror()
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>and
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>ON ERROR this.adoconnectionerror()
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>not work.
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>They should be the same thing.
Paul,

They are not the same thing. This is a relative reference to the current object in which the code is running, ON ERROR calls a procedure that is named on the line so the code is running outside of any object. In your other example you are first setting a variable to point to an object, then setting the ON ERROR which can see the variable (which is an absolute reference to an object not a relative one).