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Informix Error -50700: <OLE BYTE VALUE>

Cause and resolution

<OLE BYTE VALUE>

This text is not an error message but is displayed in an ixOleField when the displayType is displayText. This text is placed in the .msg file for ease of maintenance.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-50700 is raised by the ixOleField class in the Window Painter GUI builder library — per the official guidance:

This text is not an error message but is displayed in an ixOleField when the displayType is displayText. This text is placed in the .msg file for ease of maintenance.

  1. , per the official guidance — the direct, documented condition.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Adjust the calling code to respect the constraint named in the message, per the official guidance — no other resolution is documented.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond the class-library condition described above.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the specific value, object state, or call sequence that ixOleField flags here, against the constraint the official guidance describes.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -50704 — "Bad initialDataValue. Displaying empty data in the ixOleField." Another ixOleField-related condition in this set.
  • -50702 — "Invalid displayType for an ixOleField." Another ixOleField-related condition in this set.