Retrieving non-string values

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/14/04 9:35 PM, chuck hinkle at chuckbo at hinkles.us wrote:

>> You should use my_cursor.UShortField("VSize").value, which returns an
>> integer.  Beware that calling one of these functions (like UShortField)
>> on a field of the wrong type usually results in a crash, so you might
>> consider adding an assertion before it that checks the type of
>> my_cursor.Field("VSize"), at least for debug builds.
>> 
>> Charles Yeomans
>> 
> 
> 
> I still get the Type Mismatch error when I try to compile it.
> I'm guessing that it's because I can't set an Integer variable equal to
> the result of the UShortfield command; integers are 4 bytes and vushort
> fields are 2 bytes. But what RB field type would be appropriate to use? Do
> I need to move it into a Variant?

No,

    dim k as Integer

    k = 5

    cursor.UshortField("f").value = k


Is quite legal.

Chuck, I believe in V4RB examples present many places where is used .value
Syntax.


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