FIX: Edit/Clear From Menu Fails to Clear General Field in Editor

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

SYMPTOMS

You attempt to clear a general field while in the editor, by using the Clear option under the Visual FoxPro Edit menu. The general field appears to be cleared, but if you edit the general field again, you will see the original contents are again visible.

RESOLUTION

As a workaround, you can use the BLANK command, specifying the general field as the field to blank. For example:

BLANK FIELDS <general field name>

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 Visual FoxPro 6.0.

MORE INFORMATION

The general field editor is opened by using MODIFY GENERAL <general field name> or, within a grid or browse window, by double-clicking the general field or pressing CTRL+PAGE DOWN while the general field has focus.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Run the following code from a program (.PRG) file:

   
         CREATE TABLE genfld (f1 c(5), f2 g)
         APPEND BLANK
         APPEND GENERAL f2 FROM (HOME()+'fox.bmp')
         WAIT WINDOW "Select Edit/Clear from menu, and close edit window" ;
          NOWAIT
         MODIFY GENERAL f2
         WAIT WINDOW "In VFP 5.0x this still has the image" NOWAIT
         MODIFY GENERAL f2 




2. Select Edit/Clear from the menu.



3. Close the editor window.

   CREATE TABLE genfld (f1 c(5), f2 g)
   APPEND BLANK
   APPEND GENERAL f2 FROM (HOME()+'fox.bmp')
   WAIT WINDOW "Close edit window to see workaround" NOWAIT
   MODIFY GENERAL f2
   WAIT WINDOW "The image will now be gone" NOWAIT

   * The following code clears the general field.
   BLANK FIELDS f2

   MODIFY GENERAL f2 

REFERENCES

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Contributions by Jim Saunders, Microsoft Corporation

Additional query words: kbVFp300bbug kbVFp500abug kbVFp600fix kbXBase KbDBFDBC kbDatabase

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:5.0,5.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug