API Exception Error with BEAUTIFY - Partially Solved

[fmoore0001]

Guys, I did ask some time ago about why when I ran BEAUTIFY on some forms and prg files I would get an API Exception error, but not on others. I have found at least one reason. If you use the prefix 'm.' for memory variables in your code the BEAUTIFY program will fail every time. If you remove them no more problems.

The only problem I do see is code where you have to differeniate field variables and memory variables, like in a SCATTER/GATHER routine. But the use of the 'm.' prefiex to variables is definitely one cause of API errors in BEAUTIFY, at least in Visual Foxpro 6.0 and 7.0.

Frank

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Why not use :

create cursor myCursor (Name c(20))
SCATTER NAME oTest 

?oTest.name

Mike Gagnon

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[Mike Lewis]

Frank,

Thanks for posting that. I remember that when you first posted details of the error, I did a search of the Microsoft Knowledge Base, and couldn't see anything relevant. Maybe you should report it to Microsoft as a bug.

Mike


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