NAME CxObjError -- obtain a commodity object's accumulated error. (V36) SYNOPSIS error = CxObjError(co); D0 A0 long cxobjerror(cxobj *); FUNCTION When a function acting on an object fails, it records the failure in the object. This function returns the accumulated error value. The values are represented by flag bits defined in <libraries/commodities.h>. several errors may be recorded by multiple bits in 'error'. The currently defined errors are: COERR_ISNULL The value of parameter 'co' was in fact NULL. This error means "the problem with the object you inquire about is that it failed to be created." COERR_NULLATTACH Using the commodities' list manipulation functions, an attempt was made to add a NULL object to the list belonging to 'co'. This allows a line of code as follows to exist in an error-tolerant program: AttachCxObj(filter,CxSender(myport,MY_ID)); COERR_BADFILTER The most recent filter specification for a filter object was faulty. This happens if no sense can be made out of a description string, or if an input expression (IX) has an invalid format or version byte. When this bit is set in a filter's error field, the filter will match nothing, but this is not the proper way to "turn off" a filter, use activatecxobj(). COERR_BADTYPE A type specific operation, such as setfilterix(), was called for object 'co', but 'co' isn't of the proper type. INPUTS co - the commodity object to get the accumulated error from (may be NULL) RESULTS error - the accumulated error, or 0 if 'co' is NULL SEE ALSO setfilter(), setfilterix(), attachcxobj(), activatecxobj(), clearcxobjerror()