ERROR_GENERATE Function

Syntax

V ERROR_GENERATE(C user_error_text)

V ERROR_GENERATE(N system_error_code )

Arguments

user_error_text: The text that appears when the error occurs. Character
system_error_code: Optional. The error code to return. Numeric

Description

Generate a user defined error in Xbasic script or udf.

Discussion

Enables an error handling routine, specifying the label marking that routine's location within a script. ERROR_GENERATE() causes an error to occur and displays the Error description as the error text. Use the ERROR_GENERATE() function in a script when you want to generate an error message.

Example

The following global function takes an object pointer and sets the font of the object.

function SetDefaultFont as L (op as P)
    if (.not. is_object(op) ) then
        error_generate("SetDefaultFont:  Bad Object Pointer")
    end if
    if ((upper(op.class() )  "FIELD") .AND. (upper(op.class() )  "TEXT") )  then
        error_generate("Cannot  set font of " + op.class() + "type objects")
    end if
    op.font.name = "ARIAL"
    op.font.size = 10
    SetDefaultFont = .T.
end function