Microsoft KB Archive/221639

= FIX: Empty Memo Shows Trash Data With Trace Window Mouse Over =

Article ID: 221639

Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q221639



SYMPTOMS
When a memo field is empty and the mouse is moved over a reference to the memo field in the Trace window of the Debugger, "garbage" characters are displayed in the ToolTip message.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are 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:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
  Create a new program file and enter or paste in the following code: LOCAL iCounter CREATE TABLE TEST (iInt i, mMemo M) FOR icounter=1 TO 5 INSERT INTO TEST (iInt) values (m.iCounter) NEXT GOTO TOP SET STEP ON m.mMemo=TEST.mMemo  Save and run the program. In the Trace window of the Debugger, put the mouse over the last line of the program: (m.mMemo=test.mMemo). Observe the text displayed in the ToolTip.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbmisctools kbdatabase kbvs600sp3fix KB221639

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