PRB: Wizstyle Add Button Does Not Add Child Record

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

SYMPTOMS

The Add button, in all of the navigation classes in the WIZSTYLE class library (Wizstyle.vcx), does not work correctly when adding a record to a child table. This problem occurs when the field linking the Parent to the Child table is of type Numeric.

RESOLUTION

To workaround this issue, create a character version of the fields in each table. The character fields can then be used to set the relation between the two tables.

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this behavior and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

The WIZSTYLE class library (Wizstyle.vcx) contains many class definitions. There are three class definitions that are used to navigate in tables: txtbtns, picbtns, and verttxtbtns. Each of these classes have an Add button. In a one-to-many table configuration if the field linking the Parent and Child tables is of type numeric, then the Add button, for any of the navigation classes, does not work correctly when adding a record to the child table.

The following steps illustrate the behavior of using the txtbtns navigation buttons class on a One-to-Many form.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

There are two parts in setting up this example: Part 1 is to create the two tables used in the One-to-Many wizard. Part 2 is to create the One-to-Many form using the wizard.

Part 1 - Create the two tables used in the One-to-Many wizard:

1. Save the following code to a file called Creatabs.prg:

         *** Begin code ***
         CREATE TABLE parent (Char1 C(2),  Id N(2))
         CREATE TABLE child (Id N(2), Value1 N(3), Value2 N(4))
         SELECT child
         INDEX ON Id TAG Id
         INSERT INTO parent (Char1,Id) VALUES ('11',11)
         INSERT INTO parent (Char1,Id) VALUES ('22',22)
         INSERT INTO parent (Char1,Id) VALUES ('33',33)
         INSERT INTO child  (Id,Value1,Value2) VALUES (11,111,1111)
         INSERT INTO child (Id,Value1,Value2) VALUES (11,123,1234)
         INSERT INTO child (Id,Value1,Value2) VALUES (11,134,1345)
         INSERT INTO child (Id,Value1,Value2) VALUES (22,222,2222)
         INSERT INTO child (Id,Value1,Value2) VALUES (22,234,2345)
         INSERT INTO child (Id,Value1,Value2) VALUES (33,333,3333)
         *** End code ***
   

2. Run Creatabs.prg that creates both tables and inserts values into each table:

1. From the Visual FoxPro File menu, select New, and then click Form. Click the Wizard button.

2. On the Wizard Selection dialog box, click the One-to-Many Wizard.

   a. In Step 1, move all the fields from the Parent table to the

         Selected fields pane.
   

   b. In Step 2, move all the fields from the child table to the

         Selected fields pane.
   

   c. In Step 3, click Next, as the parent.id = child.id is relation is

         correctly set.
   

   d. In Step 4, click Next after choosing a form style.

   e. In Step 5, move the Char1 field to the Selected fields pane.

   f. In Step 6, select the Save and Run button, and click

         Finish.
   

1. Click the Add button.

2. In the Add Record dialog box, click Add record to child (grid) only, and click the Add button.