FIX: Report Fails When Printing Under Windows NT 4.0

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0a on the following platform: NT

SYMPTOMS

When printing some reports under Windows NT, Visual FoxPro causes a Dr. Watson error such as the following:

   Exception: Access Violation (0xc0000005)

RESOLUTION

Use the following code to ensure that the appropriate fields in the report file are null-terminated, as FoxPro expects. Run this code to process the reports in the current directory:

   *  Get list of report files in current directory.
   nNumReports = ADIR(aReports, "*.FRX")

   *  Loop through reports
   FOR nCurrentReport = 1 TO nNumReports
     USE (aReports[nCurrentReport,1]) EXCLUSIVE ALIAS FRXFILE

     * Add terminating null to printer information record.
     REPLACE ALL expr WITH expr + CHR(0) ;
        FOR objtype = 1 AND RIGHT(expr,1) != CHR(0)

     PACK
     USE
   NEXT

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2.

For more information on the Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q170365
   TITLE     : INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

Keywords          : buglist5.00 FxtoolReportdes vfoxwin vfpbug5.0a VS97FixlistSP3 kbprint VS97FixlistSP2
Version           : 5.0 5.0a
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix kbservicepack