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The LA Fox DeveloDer Newsletter
Janudry 1996
VFP 3.Ob Fixes.....56, Count ‘em
(Ed. Note: This thread was sent to us by Bob Timney, newsletter editor from the Potomac Area Fox Users Group.]

FROM:
Bob Tim ney, 74403,40
TO:
Jim Haentzschel, 75166,236
CC:
Nelson Johnson, 72647,2625
ELIN LANDENBURGER, 74503,57
Barry R. Lee, 72723,3422
Tom Meeks, 70304,2176
Bob Petty, 72163,2472
Olin Robie, 74462,1554
RICHARD L WAINWRIGHT, 75521,2530 DATE: 1/5/9612:12 PM

Craig Berntson <CRAlG@teltrust.com> wrote:
3.Ob primarily addresses Win32s problems, but fixes several other minor things. (The beta documentation I saw clearly stated this.) As I have stated in other messages, it does not fix the memory leak problem in Win95, which, according to some people is not a problem with VFP, but rather a problem with Win95.

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Hi Craig. Sounds likes someone at Microsoft is not telling someone else what is or is not going on. I hear what you say about the GDI leak not being fixed for 3.Ob and I can’t match your insider info however I have just given the Microsoft Knowledge base a bit of a stir and there are 220 articles listed against a search on buglist3.00 (the number has gone up by about 25 over the last few weeks!). Of these 56 are listed as having been fixed in release 3.Ob (much better than has been rumoured but still a long way to go). However the GDI leak is reported as *fixed* for release 3.Ob.

Specifically look up:

FIX: GDI Resource Leak in Visual FoxPro DE in Windows 95 (ARTICLE ID: Q140322)

FIX: Windows 95 GDI Leak with Show Window Contents Setting (ARTICLE ID: Q136338)

FIX: Memory Leak When Scroll Database Designer in Windows 95 (ARTICLE ID: Q138233)

The articles on the leak are clear in their statement of the fault and state that “This problem was corrected in Visual Foxpro 3.Ob for Windows”.
For your information the following list is the other 53 3.Ob fixes:

FIX:
GP Fault If Exit Windows 95 w/ Insert Object Dialog
Open
FIX:
Pressing ESC Key in Properties Window Causes
Error
FIX:
SET CENTURY OFF Turns 02/29/2000 into Invalid
Date
FIX:
Unallocated Handle When Deleting Zero Value of a
Gnd
FIX:
Error Message with SAVE SCREEN Command
FIX:
MaxLength Property Reverts to “0” in the Properties
Sheet
FIX:
Filter Is Not Added for Integer Fields in View Wizards
FIX:
Logical Fields Unavailable in Step 4 of Query Wizard
FIX:
Can’t Select Beginning and End Pages in Print
Dialog
FIX:
TTOC(&lt;DATE&gt;,1) Returns String Larger Than
14 Characters
FIX:
Spinner Name Doesn’t Move with Spinner in a
PageFrame
FIX:
Visual FoxPro Hangs If Focus Set to TextBox in Grid
Column
FIX:
NOCONSOLE in Report Form Command Causes
Erratic Behavior
FIX:
SQLDISCONNECTO May Cause Exception Error in
Visual FoxPro
FIX:
Debug and Trace Options Disabled After Running RI
Builder
FIX:
File List for Recently Used Projects Lost
FIX:
Invalid Page Fault When Modify Tastrade Orders
Structure
FIX:
FontSize=1 Causes Visual FoxPro to Terminate wI
Windows 95
FIX:
Browse Does Not Repaint Correctly
FIX:
CANCEL After “Object in Use” Error Closes Visual
FoxPro
FIX:
SQL SELECT Returns Different Results Using the
Same Data
FIX:
Combo Box Does Not Appear to Drop Down When
Clicked
FIX:
Insufficient Memory on a Computer That Has 512
Meg of RAM
FIX:
Entering Validation Rule in Table Designer Causes
Error
FIX:
GET Field Default Sizes on the Desktop Are Too
Small
FIX:
Backslash Alone in Menu Causes “Illegal Operation”
Error
FIX:
Get Displays 0 When ENTER Key Used to Move to
Next Get
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