On Error ... Fails! - Any suggestions

[Andy]

Hi,

I've got some code which uses various "On Error" statements to try to trap
some errors in VB6. When I try it on one machine (WinXP SP1) it works fine,
but on another machine (WinXP SP2) it fails to trap the error and so the
code fails. e.g.


On Error Resume Next
debug.print 3/0

Would fail on the "debug" line.

On Error Goto Fred
debug.print 3/0
Fred:

would also fail on the "debug" line

Any suggestions??

Without this basic error trapping the whole application is screwed.

Thanks

Andy

[Steve Gerrard]

Re: On Error ... Fails! - Any suggestions


"Andy" <a@a.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've got some code which uses various "On Error" statements to try to trap
> some errors in VB6. When I try it on one machine (WinXP SP1) it works fine,
> but on another machine (WinXP SP2) it fails to trap the error and so the
> code fails. e.g.
>
>
> On Error Resume Next
> debug.print 3/0
>
> Would fail on the "debug" line.
>[/color]

Right click on your code somewhere, choose Toggle, and select "Break on
Unhandled Errors".

[Raoul Watson]

Re: On Error ... Fails! - Any suggestions


"Andy" <a@a.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I've got some code which uses various "On Error" statements to try to trap
> some errors in VB6. When I try it on one machine (WinXP SP1) it works[/color]
fine,[color=blue]
> but on another machine (WinXP SP2) it fails to trap the error and so the
> code fails. e.g.
>
>
> On Error Resume Next
> debug.print 3/0
>
> Would fail on the "debug" line.
>
> On Error Goto Fred
> debug.print 3/0
> Fred:
>
> would also fail on the "debug" line
>
> Any suggestions??
>
> Without this basic error trapping the whole application is screwed.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>[/color]

I believe the debug.print would be outside your program scope. Does it
handle it correctly if you do:

On Error Resume Next
x = 3/0
Debug.Print "The error handler worked"

[Andy]

Re: On Error ... Fails! - Any suggestions---Thanks

That solved it - after all these years with vb, I'd never had the need to
use that option.

Thanks

Andy


"Steve Gerrard" <mynamehere@com cast.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Andy" <a@a.com> wrote in message
> news:d6d3ol$ja0 $1@nwrdmz01.dmz .ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...[color=green]
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got some code which uses various "On Error" statements to try to[/color][/color]
trap[color=blue][color=green]
> > some errors in VB6. When I try it on one machine (WinXP SP1) it works[/color][/color]
fine,[color=blue][color=green]
> > but on another machine (WinXP SP2) it fails to trap the error and so the
> > code fails. e.g.
> >
> >
> > On Error Resume Next
> > debug.print 3/0
> >
> > Would fail on the "debug" line.
> >[/color]
>
> Right click on your code somewhere, choose Toggle, and select "Break on
> Unhandled Errors".
>
>[/color]