OK, I found the answer: change form(lcFormVar) to form(lcFormVar).item()
Makes me wonder why it (retrieving the form variable value) works OK elsewhere; including this form when posted to default.asp but handled directly within main.prg. Oh well.
Hank
>Hi Claude,
>
>I created a simple html form with a textbox and a submit button, with the action being to submit the form to default.asp with action of aspvars (XP SP1, IIS6 local):
>
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
><html>
><head>
><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
><title>Untitled Document</title>
></head>
>
><body>
><form action="http://localhost/avfpwebservice/default.asp?action=aspvars" method="post" name="frmGetName" target="_self" id="frmGetName">
> <p>
> <input name="txtmyname" type="text" id="txtmyname" size="25" maxlength="25">
></p>
> <p>
> <input name="btnSubmitName" type="submit" id="btnSubmitName" value="Submit">
></p>
></form>
></body>
></html>
>
>
>The result when I run it, either directly from Dreamweaver MX 2004, or when saved into the local website is an error in dumpvars:
>
>
>Error Type:
>dumpvars err#= 107 line= 1510 Operator/operand type mismatch.107 Operator/operand type mismatch. .NULL. .NULL. .NULL. .NULL. .NULL. c:\prosysplus\courses\avfpws\avfpwebservice\avfpwebservice.dll (0x800A006B)
>c:\prosysplus\courses\avfpws\avfpwebservice\avfpwebservice.dll
>/avfpwebservice/default.asp, line 6
>
>
>It looks like it's this line from dumpvars:
>
>
> lcSTR=lcSTR+[ <TR><TD><b> ]+ lcFormVar +[ </b></TD><TD> ]+crlf;
> +lcVar +[</TD></TR>]+crlf
>
>
>I played with it long enough (put a transform() around the preceding statement where lcVar receives it value from oResponse.form(lcFormVar)) to discover that what is being returned is an object, for both the textbox and the button.
>
>Pretty strange, since in your samples, clearly the value, not the object, is being returned.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>thanks,
>
>Hank Fay
