FIX: Menu Builder Removes Windows Message Information

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, version 2.5

SYMPTOMS

A FoxPro for Windows menu that has been opened and saved by the FoxPro for MS-DOS Menu Builder loses all FoxPro for Windows message information for the menu.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in FoxPro 2.5 for MS-DOS. This problem was corrected in FoxPro 2.5a for MS-DOS.

MORE INFORMATION

The message information is the text that is displayed in the FoxPro for Windows status bar for a menu selection. This information typically describes the function of the selected menu.

The FoxPro 2.5 for MS-DOS Menu Builder does not correctly read the existing information from the message field into its data structure for the menu. Therefore, when it writes a new menu file, the message field information is discarded.

Steps to Reproduce Problem

1. Start FoxPro for Windows.

2. Use the Quick Menu option of the Menu Builder to create a new menu named TEST.MNX (assuming you do not already have a file with the same name).

3. Choose the Options button in the first row of the TEST.MNX window (the row that has "\<File" for its Prompt).

4. In the Prompt Options dialog box, select the Message check box. Verify that the message in the Expression Builder contains the following text:

   Create, open, save, print files or quit FoxPro

5. Choose OK twice to return to the main TEST.MNX window.

6. Save TEST.MNX, then quit FoxPro for Windows.

7. Start FoxPro for MS-DOS.

8. Open TEST.MNX.

9. Change the name of the first prompt from "\<File" to "\<File Test" (without the quotation marks).

10. Save the changes to TEST.MNX.

11. Quit FoxPro for MS-DOS.

12. Start FoxPro for Windows.

13. Open TEST.MNX.

14. Choose the Options button in the first row of the quick menu (the row that now has "\<File Test" for its prompt).