>I always and underline the word ALWAYS use the same techinique to make a search in a table and put the result in a textbox:
>
>From the textbox in the doubleclick event I call the form which make the search
>- do form SearchForm to lcRetval
> if !empty(lcRetval)
> this.value = lcRetval
> .......
>
>well yesterday i get the error DataType mismatch.
>i look at the line of code which gave me the error and LISTEN !!:
>=SEEK(THIS.VALUE,'MyTable','MyIdx')
>i check the value in this.value and it was a charachter type, checked the idx expression and it was a character type.
>
>Any Ideas ?
>Moreover, doing the same thing a second time it works ok and it carry on working fine .....
>Thank you
>Alessio

Alessio,

Just a couple of wild guesses: are there any timers in your application? Also could there be an issue as to current datasession? Good luck.

Mike