>Hi foxpro professionals
>
>In my application i want to communicate with an SPS ?
>The manufacturer(siemens) offers an activx-control (s7data) to handle this.
>With Visual Foxpro some things worked good some don't.
>I think that the problem depends on the data-typs ???
>
>Here is an example how to read the variable XXX, which works in Visual Basic:
>dim xyz as long
>dim xxx as variant
>s7data.readvariable "XXX" ,xxx , xyz,0
>if xxx = ......
>endif
>
>When i try it in foxpro i get an ole-error 0x8002005 Type mismatch
>local xyz,xxx
>xyz=0
>xxx=0
>thisform.s7data.readvariable("XXX" ,xxx , xyz,0)
>
>I don't know how to handle datatyps long or variant ????
>Any help welcomed
>
>Best regards
>Albert

Hi Albert,

Have you looked at Q177575 - PRB: ActiveX Controls Passing Variant Back to VFP Cause Error. I suspect this may be the problem, and it may also explain a problem I'm having with ExecWB.

Mike