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**TakeError(**// error id //**), PROC**

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| **TakeError** | Locates the specified error, calls the appropriate method to handle it, then returns the severity level. |
| //error id// | An integer constant, variable, EQUATE, or expression that indicates which error to process. |

The **TakeError** method locates the specified error, then based on its severity level calls the appropriate (Take//Level//) method to process the error, then returns the severity level.

TakeError assumes SetErrors has already been called to save the current error state.

**Implementation:**

The ABERROR.INC file contains a list of default symbolic constants for the //error id //parameter.

By default, the error manager recognizes six different levels of error severity. The TakeError method calls a different virtual method (Take//Level//) for each severity level, which makes it easy to override the default error actions with your own application-specific error actions. The recognized severity EQUATEs are declared in ABERROR.INC. These severity levels and their default actions are:

| ** ** | **Level:Benign** | **no action, returns Level:Benign** |
| ** ** | **Level:User** | **displays message, returns Level:Benign or Level:Cancel** |
| ** ** | **Level:Notify** | **displays message, returns Level:Benign** |
| ** ** | **Level:Fatal** | **displays message, halts the program** |
| ** ** | **Level:Program** | **treated as Level:Fatal** |
| ** ** | **any other value** | **treated as Level:Program** |

**Return Data Type:**     BYTE

**See Also:**     [[errors  recognized error definitions .htm|Errors]], [[seterrors  save the error state .htm|SetErrors]], [[takebenign  process benign error .htm|TakeBenign]], [[takenotify  process notify error .htm|TakeNotify]], [[takeuser  process user error .htm|TakeUser]], [[takefatal  process fatal error .htm|TakeFatal]], [[takeprogram   process program error .htm|TakeProgram]], [[takeother  process other error .htm|TakeOther]], [[throw   process specified error .htm|Throw]]