PRB: Cannot Reinstall a Specific Visual FoxPro Component

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SYMPTOMS

When installing or reinstalling additional Visual FoxPro components, the interface presented by the Setup program might seem unfamiliar.

CAUSE

Visual FoxPro uses the new Microsoft setup routine found in other Microsoft products. This setup program allows you to install, maintain and remove the different components of Visual FoxPro.To install a component of the product, you need to choose the appropriate check box for that option in the setup dialog box. If setup is run after the product has been installed, the setup routine enters a maintenance mode where the dialog box shows what components are already installed.

To remove a component, clear the check box for the component. To add a component, select the check box for the option leaving the other options alone.

This may confuse some users who want to reinstall only a single item. For example, while trying to reinstall the VFP.EXE, you might think that you need to clear the check boxes for all the other options. But what really happens is that everything but VFP.EXE and the .DLL filess is un-installed. The file VFP.EXE is not even reinstalled.

WORKAROUND

To install an previously uninstalled component, choose the component and continue with setup. FoxPro installs only that component.

To reinstall an option that was previously installed, choose one of the following:

• Run setup and remove the component that needs to be reinstalled. This will remove it from the disk and the proper entry from the FOXSET32.STF or the FOXSET16.STF file. After removing the option, run setup and choose the item to reinstall.

  -or-

• Delete the FOXSET32.STF or FOXSET16.STF file and run setup. When the components dialog box appears, none of the items will be checked. Choose the item that needs to be reinstalled. The only known drawback to this approach is that FoxPro will not know which options have already been installed.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.