FIX: Expanding/Collapsing Big Array in Watch/Locals Windows Slow

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

When expanding or collapsing the contents of a large array in either the Locals or the Watch windows of the Visual FoxPro Debugger, Visual FoxPro 6.0 appears to hang. Eventually, the contents of the array do appear.

STATUS

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

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.

For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. From the Command window, type the following lines of code:




SELECT * FROM HOME(2)+'data\orditems' INTO ARRAY atest
debug 

2. Wait a couple of seconds for the array "atest" to appear in the locals window. When it does appear, click on the plus sign (+) next to the array name to expand it.
   
   Visual FoxPro 6.0 appears to hang, but the expanded array eventually appears in the Locals window after several minutes. After the expanded array appears, the same time delay occurs if you try to collapse the array in the Locals window. The same behavior occurs with Watch window. The Windows NT Task Manager will show Visual FoxPro and the Visual FoxPro Debugger as Not Responding while waiting for the array to expand.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbMiscTools kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbXBase kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug