>>In my opinion, this is the way to do it...a global error handler should be set-up and this is one of the errors it could handle....
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>>Joe
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>>>Try using an error handler
>>>
>>>on error do errhandler()
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>>>errhandler()
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>>>if error() = 1582
>>>
>>>
>>>endif
>>>
>>>
>>>1582 I think is the error number for a field validation error. You can check in the help contents of Visual Foxpro under the Technical Reference.
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>Excuse me on this, but is this not a non-oop way of handling it?? I would think the form or whatever is doingthe update to the table/column should handle the error as apposed to GLOBAL error handler..
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>Am I wrong here??


You're correct. The error should be handled by the object.