[RBASE-L] - Re: Typecasting problem

[Jason Kramer]

Razzak and Karen,     Thank you.  Setting WHILEOPT to OFF for just that loop fixed it.                                               Jason Jason Kramer University Archives and Records Management 002 Pearson Hall (302) 831 - 3127 (voice) (302) 831 - 6903 (fax) karentel...@cs.com wrote: Jason:  Everytime someone says that the problem does not happen when you are tracing, the first response is:   make sure you SET WHILEOPT OFF.   Do you know what your whileopt setting is? Karen     I'm having a strange problem with typecasting.  I was hoping someone else on the list could try and duplicate the problem for me, or point out where I am going wrong.  The problem is especially strange because if I have SET TRACE ON in my code, the problem does not happen.     I have a form which in certain circumstances requires the user to enter a date and time.  I want to compare the date and time entered to the current time to make sure that the time entered is in the future.  I use a DIALOG command with a popup.  I have put the code below.     If I run the EEP without a SET TRACE ON in the code, then I get error 2158 (-ERROR- _expression_ does not return a valid DATETIME.), followed by error 3031 (-ERROR- SET Error Command).     If I run the code with a SET TRACE ON statement, the code executes fine.  It even executes fine if I never step through the code and just press the green triangle/play button as soon as the trace window opens.     I am running 7.6.5.31229                                                        Thanks,                                                        Jason