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err.description and erl no longer giving values

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AncientTiger

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Jul 5, 2001
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I've NEVER encountered this issue before in all the years that I've been programming VB6, but all of a sudden, all my error handlers are giving up nadda information on error reporting.

Typically, Err.Description provides just that, the descriptive text of the error encountered. Erl returns the line# the error occurred in. It's worked that way for years and years.

NOW, the Err.Description value is blank, and the Erl is 0 no matter what.

Has anyone else had this issue, and now the fix??


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[yinyang] Over 30 years of programming, and still learning every day! [yinyang]
 
DISREGARD THIS ISSUE!

Found what was happening, and it was just an old programmer having cranial flatulence. My error trap was calling a separate sub that did a screen capture. I had recently also added a bug catcher in THAT sub, so one On Error was cancelling the values captured by the source On Error.

One of my favorite quotes: "Debugging: Being the detective in a crime movie where you're also the murderer"

Yep, that's ME. LOL

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[yinyang] Over 30 years of programming, and still learning every day! [yinyang]
 
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