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2 total messages Started by BBaley Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:00
help with variant type - null/unknown type?
#155
Author: BBaley
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:00
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Hi,
I am having difficulty with determining the variant type passed (from a
program / procedure I did not code - I am working on a DLL that is
called from this app)

I have tried to go through the known vartypes but the variant seems to
match none of them??

Normally I am trying to determine the cause of an EConverError: not a
valid floating point value (during debugging - the try-except  handles
during execution normally)

Am I missing something (below) or is there a better way to do this?  I
always come up with NO resulting vartype?

----------------------------------------------------------------
function VarToInt(V: Variant) : integer;
var
  es : string;
begin
  try
    if not(VarIsNull(V) or VarIsEmpty(v)) then
      begin
        If ( VarType(v) IN[varByte, varSmallInt, varShortInt,
varInteger, varWord, varLongWord, varInt64]) then
          begin
            result := Integer(V);
          end;
      end
    else
      begin
        If ( VarType(v) IN[varSingle, varDouble, varCurrency]) then
          begin
            result := Round(v)
          end
        else
          begin

            {$IFDEF Include_DBG_Display}
            ShowMessage('wrong type: expected integer');

            case VarType(v) of
              varEmpty   : es := 'Empty';
              varVariant : es := 'Variant';
              varUnknown : es := 'Unknown';
              varAny     : es := 'varAny';

              varString  : es := 'String';
              varOLEStr  : es := 'OLEStr';
              varStrArg  : es := 'StrArg';

              varDate    : es := 'Date';

              varBoolean : es := 'Boolean';

              varError     : es := 'varError';
              varDispatch  : es := 'Dispatch';
            end;

             Showmessage('var = ' + es);
            {$ENDIF}

            result := 0;
          end;
      end;
  except
    on Exception do
      result := 0;
  end; {- try/except -}
Re: help with variant type - null/unknown type?
#156
Author: Riki Wiki
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:52
16 lines
1342 bytes
On 28 Mar 2006 05:00:59 -0800, BBaley wrote:

> Am I missing something (below) or is there a better way to do this?  I
> always come up with NO resulting vartype?

Hoi

You need to repost your question on the Borland news server to make
everybody see it and possibly answer your question. Further, this news
group do not officially exist, the group to use is
b.p.d.language.delphi.general.

Take a look here:
<http://tinyurl.com/8m5nw>
which links to
<http://delphi.wikicities.com/wiki/Delphi_Newsgroups>
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