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Informix Error -50714: Invalid value for property name.

Cause and resolution

Invalid value for property name.

An invalid or NULL value was passed as a property name for the methods get/setPropertyType or get/setProperty of ixOCXField. For valid property names, consult the OCX documentation.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-50714 is raised by the ixOCXField class in the Window Painter GUI builder library — per the official guidance:

An invalid or NULL value was passed as a property name for the methods get/setPropertyType or get/setProperty of ixOCXField. For valid property names, consult the OCX documentation.

  1. Invalid value for property name, 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 ixOCXField flags here, against the constraint the official guidance describes.
Related Errors / Related Topics

No closely related error codes are cross-referenced for -50714 in this set yet.

Invalid value for property name.