FIX: CLEAR CLASS of Objects in Containers Causes GPF

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When you issue a CLEAR CLASS command to clear a control class in a container, Visual FoxPro has a GPF (General Protection Fault) and close.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been corrected in Microsoft Visual FoxPro version 5.0a for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

In Visual FoxPro 5.0, create a form class that has a container such as PageFrame. In that PageFrame container, place a control that's created from a VCX-based class. Once the form is instantiated, released, and you execute a CLEAR CLASS command for that control class in the container, it causes the GPF.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a button class in Class Designer. Name the button class as mybutton and the class library as TestIPF.

2. Create a form class in Class Designer.

3. Add a PageFrame control to the form class, then subclass the above button class in Page1 of the PageFrame control.

4. Save the form class into the class library, TestIPF as testform.

5. Create a .PRG, and put the following code into the .PRG:

         LOCAL oForm
   

         SET CLASSLIB TO TestIPF
         oForm=CREATEOBJECT("testform")
         oForm.Release
         CLEAR CLASS testform
         CLEAR CLASS testbutton  && IPF here
   

6. Save and run the .PRG.

Keywords          : buglist5.00 FxprgClassoop vfoxwin vfpfix5.0a
Version           : 5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS