FIX: Menu Builder Removes Windows Message Information

ID: Q105120

2.50 MS-DOS kbprg kbfixlist kbbuglist kberrmsg

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, version 2.5

SYMPTOMS

A FoxPro for Windows menu that has been opened and saved by the FoxPro for MS-DOS Menu Builder loses all FoxPro for Windows message information for the menu.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in FoxPro 2.5 for MS-DOS. This problem was corrected in FoxPro 2.5a for MS-DOS.

MORE INFORMATION

The message information is the text that is displayed in the FoxPro for Windows status bar for a menu selection. This information typically describes the function of the selected menu.

The FoxPro 2.5 for MS-DOS Menu Builder does not correctly read the existing information from the message field into its data structure for the menu. Therefore, when it writes a new menu file, the message field information is discarded.

Steps to Reproduce Problem

 1. Start FoxPro for Windows.

 2. Use the Quick Menu option of the Menu Builder to create a new menu
    named TEST.MNX (assuming you do not already have a file with the
    same name).

 3. Choose the Options button in the first row of the TEST.MNX window
    (the row that has "\<File" for its Prompt).

 4. In the Prompt Options dialog box, select the Message check box.
    Verify that the message in the Expression Builder contains the
    following text:

       Create, open, save, print files or quit FoxPro

 5. Choose OK twice to return to the main TEST.MNX window.

 6. Save TEST.MNX, then quit FoxPro for Windows.

 7. Start FoxPro for MS-DOS.

 8. Open TEST.MNX.

 9. Change the name of the first prompt from "\<File" to "\<File Test"
    (without the quotation marks).

11. Quit FoxPro for MS-DOS.

12. Start FoxPro for Windows.

13. Open TEST.MNX.

14. Choose the Options button in the first row of the quick menu (the

    row that now has "\<File Test" for its prompt).