BUG: WhatsThisHelp Displays Wrong Mouse Icon On Form Title Bar

ID: Q191644

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0

SYMPTOMS

When you invoke WhatsThisHelp, on a form, and you put the mouse icon over the Title Bar of the form, it changes the mouse cursor back to a normal mouse.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Place the following code in a program (.prg) file and run the program:


      oForm=CREATEOBJECT("test1")
      oForm.VISIBLE=.T.
      READ EVENTS

      DEFINE CLASS test1 AS FORM
         NAME="test1"
         WHATSTHISHELP=.T.
         ADD OBJECT 'btnClose' AS COMMANDBUTTON

      PROCEDURE INIT
         THIS.btnClose.LEFT=50
         THIS.btnClose.TOP=100
         THIS.btnClose.HEIGHT=20
         THIS.btnClose.VISIBLE=.T.
      ENDPROC

      PROCEDURE btnClose.CLICK
         CLEAR EVENTS
         RELE THISFORM
      ENDPROC
      ENDDEFINE

When the form displays, press SHIFT+F1 to turn on WhatsThisHelp.

Move the mouse cursor over the title bar of the form.

Notice that the mouse cursor changes to the default pointing cursor. If you click the title bar, WhatsThisHelp still functions. In Visual FoxPro 3.0, clicking the title bar invokes the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Help. In Visual FoxPro 5.0, a tool tip box appears with the following:

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Additional query words: kbVFp600bug kbCtrl kbContainer kbVFp300bbug kbVFp500abug

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:3.0b,5.0,5.0a,6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug