>What is the status (if any) of a VFP8 SP2. I am spending a lot of time inventing clever work arounds to prevent leaks in some of the more straight forward action methods.
>
>Example:
>If VARTYPE(SoAndSo)=="O"
> SoAndSo.Value="New Value"
>Endif
>I just had an incident where VFP error manager told me
SoAndSo "is not an object" at
SoAndSo.Value="New Value" , even though VFP vetted the test (in the line before) as true!
>
>I will admit this much:
>SoAndSo is a form name, as well as a PRG name and a DBF name!
>
>Should I go back to 6?
You could always test
TYPE('SoAndSo.Value') = "C"
Charles
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