BUG: Cannot Select the First Menu Pad in a System

• Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5., 2.5a, 2.5b, and 2.6

SYMPTOMS

If a menu built with the Menu Builder is activated by using the ACTIVATE MENU command, you cannot select the first menu pad with the mouse. However, you can select any other pad. Once any other menu pad has been selected with the mouse, you can then select the first menu pad.

RESOLUTION

This problem does not occur if a foundation READ is used instead of the ACTIVATE MENU _MSYSMENU command. For information about implementing a foundation READ in a FoxPro menu system, query on the following words here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   foundation and read and menu and foxpro and exits

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in FoxPro 2.5, 2.5a, 2.5b, and 2.6 for Windows. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Build a quick menu, and generate it with the name TEST.MPR.

2. Execute the following lines of code:

         DO test.mpr
         DO WHILE .T.
           ACTIVATE MENU _MSYSMENU
         ENDDO
   
   

3. When the menu system is active, select the first pad with the mouse. Nothing happens. Select another pad with the mouse and then try to select the first pad again. You should now be able to select the first menu pad.