BUG: MODIFY WINDOW SCREEN Does Not Reset BackColor Property

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a

SYMPTOMS

Using the MODIFY WINDOW SCREEN command to reset the value of the BackColor property of the _SCREEN system variable does not work.

WORKAROUND

You can work around this by issuing the following command:

   _SCREEN.ResetToDefault('BackColor')

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

According to the Help file in Visual FoxPro 5.0, to return the main Visual FoxPro window to its startup configuration, issue the MODIFY WINDOW SCREEN command without any additional clauses. When you do so, it visually resets the _SCREEN BackColor property to the startup color, which is white, but the value of the BackColor property still has the previous value.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

In the Command window, issue the following commands:

   _SCREEN.BackColor = RGB(192,192,192)
   ? _SCREEN.BackColor    && The value of BackColor is 12632256.
   MODIFY WINDOW SCREEN
   ? _SCREEN.BackColor

Now issue these commands in the Command window:

   _SCREEN.ResetToDefault('BackColor')
   ? _SCREEN.BackColor