INKEY: Function argument value, type, or count is invalid

[chpicker]

My error log occasionally comes up with this error. It happens maybe once a week or so. It claims to be happening on line 32 of my browsetable.prg file. Here is the line:
[tt]
nKeyPress=INKEY(0,'H')
[/tt]
The error doesn't make any sense to me. I'm passing 2 literal constants to the INKEY() function. This error, if being reported correctly, should occur EVERY time the code runs, not just once a week.

The browsetable function is a generic function used throughout my program for data entry and data lookup forms. It allows a user to search for a field in a grid, and is called by the KEYPRESS event of the grid's textbox. I have declared nKeyPress to be a LOCAL variable, so it can't interfere with any pre-existing variable of that name.

Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? Is there something I'm missing that could cause the line to generate this error? Or is the error being reported incorrectly and something else is going on? Any insight?

Thanks,

Ian

 

[GriffMG]

Ian,

I have never used the second parameter!

This is probably something else, try dropping the
second parameter in the short term though?

HTH

Regards

Griff
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[chpicker]

Hey Griff,

The second parameter is used to hide the blinking cursor that normally appears while waiting for a key to be pressed. I suppose I could change the single line to this:
[tt]
nKeyPress=0
DO WHILE nKeyPress=0
DOEVENTS
nKeyPress=INKEY()
ENDDO
[/tt]
This seems kinda cumbersome, though, and needlessly complex. In any case, the line I AM using works properly 99% of the time.

*boggles*

Ian

 

[GriffMG]

Ian,

I looked in the help to find the 'Hide' parameter...

I would probably not want to put that loop in if I could help it.

Why not try living with the cursor for a few days? Just to see if it, the problem, goes away?


HTH Regards

Griff
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[chpicker]

Well, I can try it. Nothing to lose, of course.

Any other suggestions?

Ian