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 mes-

sages, it does not fix the memory leak problem in

Win95, which, according to some people is not a prob-

lem with VFP, but rather a problem with Win95.

<SNIP>

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 Win-

dows 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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