FIX: Memo Has Characters Added to Value in Locals/Watch Window

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

SYMPTOMS

When you place a memo field name into the Debugger Watch Window, the value that displays may contain extra characters appended to the end of the memo field's actual contents.

This behavior does not occur in Visual FoxPro 6.0

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

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

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

   
         _CLIPTEXT = 'mymemo'
         CREATE CURSOR CTEMP(MYMEMO M(4))
         APPEND BLANK
         REPLACE MYMEMO WITH 'Junk'
         CLEAR DEBUG
         KEYBOARD '{alt+3}{ctrl+v}{enter}' 




2. Look at the value of mymemo in the Watch Window.
   
   The value for mymemo in the Watch window contains something like the following:

   
         "Junk|", or "JunkW       TTOOLBAR    Debugger                L ST
          " 

REFERENCES

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Contributions by Jim Saunders, Microsoft Corporation

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbMiscTools kbVFp600 kbVFp600fix kbXBase
Version : WINDOWS:5.0,5.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug