Microsoft KB Archive/136277

= FIX: FormCount Property Does Not Count Toolbars in a Form Set =

Article ID: 136277

Article Last Modified on 9/30/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q136277



SYMPTOMS
The FormCount property of a form set should hold the number of forms in the form set. However, the FormCount property does not include any toolbars that are contained in the form set.



WORKAROUND
Use the Forms array property to identify forms or toolbars in a form set. It is automatically created when the form set is run.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been fixed in Visual FoxPro 5.0 for Windows.



Steps to Reproduce Problem
 Create a toolbar class for the form. On the File menu, click New. Select the Class option, and click the New File button. In the Class Name box, type MyToolbar. In the Based On list, click Toolbar. In the Stored In box, type Mytool. Click OK, and the Class Designer form appears.  Click the command button object in the Forms Controls toolbar, and then click the empty area of the toolbar located in the upper-left corner of the Class Designer. A small command button appears. Type the word Quit as the caption, and resize the command button to allow the word Quit to appear in full view. Double-click it, and add the following line of code to its Click event procedure. Save and close the Class Designer. THISFORMSET.RELEASE  Create a new form. On the File menu, click New. Select the Form option, and click the New File button. On the Form menu, click Create Form Set. Then on the Form menu, click Add New Form to place a second form in the form set.  Add a text box (Text1) to the form set, and type the following in the ControlSource property for the Text1 box: ThisFormSet.FormCount FormCount is a property of the form set that tells how many forms are in the form set.   Add a command button to the form set and place the following code in the command button's Click event procedure: FOR X= 1 TO THISFORMSET.FORMCOUNT WAIT WINDOW MYFORM.FORMS(X).NAME ENDFOR   Add another command button to the form set and place the following code in its click event procedure: WAIT WINDOW MYFORM.FORMS(1).NAME WAIT WINDOW MYFORM.FORMS(2).NAME WAIT WINDOW MYFORM.FORMS(3).NAME </li> Click the View Classes tool in the Forms Controls toolbar. Then click Add, and select the Mytool.vcx file. The custom tool MyToolbar now appears in the Forms Controls toolbar replacing the objects that usually appear there. Click MyToolbar, and then click the form. The toolbar with the Quit command button appears in the form set.</li> Save the form as MyForm, and run it. Note the value shown in Text1 is 2. There are two forms plus the custom toolbar form, so it should show a value of 3. Click the first command button, and notice that the first and second wait windows show the names of the forms of the form set stored in the Forms array. Click the second command button. Wait windows appear with the names of the first and second forms, and the third wait window shows the name of the custom toolbar. This name is stored as the third element of the Forms array. If the second form had been added after the custom toolbar, then clicking the first command button would have caused the name of the first form and the name of the toolbar to appear. The name of the second form is still in the Forms array, but it is located in the third array element instead of the second array element. The FormCount property works correctly if no toolbars are added to the form set.</li></ol>

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