FIX: Screen Redraws When Mouse Button Is Released

• Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, version 2.0

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft FoxPro version 2.0, when a READ MODAL window has been defined and the user is in a child window, the screen redraws itself when the mouse button is released after a system pop-up window has been clicked. This is not the desired behavior.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft FoxPro version 2.0 for MS-DOS. This problem was corrected in Microsoft FoxPro version 2.0 for MS-DOS dated March 25, 1992.

MORE INFORMATION

When you are involved in a READ, you can interact with other non-READ windows without terminating the READ. The MODAL option allows you to limit the non-READ windows that can be activated during a READ. When a window is defined as modal, the window assumes the behavior of a FoxPro dialog box. This means that windows outside the screen set cannot be brought to the front of the screen set window and the current window is temporarily dimmed.

To specify the windows that can participate in the READ, you can issue the READ WITH <window title> clause, which automatically makes the screen set modal. Only those windows defined in the screen set and specified in the Associated Window list can be activated.