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Article ID: 143248 - Last Review: September 30, 2003 - Revision: 3.1
FIX: Error: "Variable 'TITLE' is not found" as Start Tastrade
This article was previously published under Q143248
Starting Tastrade.app causes the following error message to appear:
Variable "TITLE" is not found.
<Cancel> <Suspend> <Ignore> <Help>
If you click Ignore, the error message will appear with NOTES replacing
TITLE as the variable not found. This will occur several more times, each
with a different variable such as PHOTO_FILE and PASSWORD.
NOTE: The error is not displayed immediately upon starting Tastrade.app if
the introductory screen appears. To cause the error message to appear,
click the Continue button on the Introductory form.
COMPATIBLE has been set to ON or DB4.
The short-term solution is to issue the following command in the Command
window before running Tastrade.app:
The permanent solution is to modify the Environment class in the Tsgen
class library as described below.
Step-by-Step Workaround
- Open the Tastrade.pjx project file located in the VFP\Samples\Mainsamp
directory.
- Click the Classes tab. Drill down in the Tsgen class library, and select
the Environment library. Click the Modify button to edit the library.
- With the Environment class open in design mode, click New Property on
the Class menu. In the Name box, enter the following variable name:
cOldCompatible
- Ensure that the properties sheet of the class is open by choosing
Properties from the View menu. Click the Methods tab on the properties
sheet.
- Double-click the Init event, and add the following line of code at the
end of the current code:
this.cOldCompatible = SET('COMPATIBLE')
- From the Methods tab in the Property sheet, double-click the Reset
method, and add the code at the end of the current code:
lutemp = this.cOldCompatible
SET COMPATIBLE &lutemp
- Double-click the Set method in the Methods tab of the Property sheet and
enter the following line of code at the end of the current code:
Close and save the method.
- Close and save the Environment class. In the Project Manager, click the
Build option button, and then click Build Application under options, and
choose OK. The Save As dialog box appears. Either take the default name
for the application, or enter a new name to leave the original
application intact if necessary.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been fixed in
Visual FoxPro 5.0 for Windows.
COMPATIBLE can be set in following three ways:
- By using the following command in the Config.fpw file:
COMPATIBLE=ON
- By using the following command in program code or in the Command window:
- By choosing Options from the Tools menu; then clicking the General tab,
and selecting the dBASE Compatibility check box.
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
- In Command window, type SET COMPATIBLE ON, or select the dBASE
Compatibility check box in the General tab the Options choice on the
Tools menu.
- Run \Vfp\Samples\Mainsamp\Tastrade.app
- Click the Continue button on the Introductory form if you see it.
- The following program error is displayed:
"Variable 'TITLE' is not found."
<Cancel> <Suspend> <Ignore> <Help>
- Click Ignore. Several more similar error messages will appear, each with
a different variable not found.
- Click Ignore until the Login form appears. Each field that was displayed
in the error message is blank.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
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