Microsoft KB Archive/141723

= FIX: Status Bar Message Does Not Refresh Properly =

Article ID: 141723

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 Q141723



SYMPTOMS
While using Microsoft Visual FoxPro with the Status Bar set ON (default), you may notice that the Status Bar message fails to update correctly. It may display messages associated with the Standard Toolbar through the entire session



WORKAROUND
If this should occur, it is possible to force the message to refresh by typing the following command into the Command window:

SET STATUS BAR ON



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



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 Start Visual FoxPro. If the Status Bar is not visible as the bottom border of the main Visual FoxPro window, it must be set on by typing the following command in the Command window:

SET STATUS BAR ON

 If the Standard Toolbar (which contains the Run exclamation point tool) is not visible, it must be set on. (On the View menu, click Toolbars, and select Standard from the list of toolbars. On the File menu, click New, and specify Query as the file type. Then click the New File button.  When the Open Table dialog box appears, click Other, and locate the Customer.dbf, which should be here:      C:\Vfp\Samples\Data                         Within the Query Designer, select all the fields by double-clicking the asterisk (*) in the Customer.dbf.</li> From the Standard Toolbar, select the Run tool to run the query. The Status Bar will display a message associated with the number of records selected, and then the message will change to "Runs the current form, program, report, or query." No other message associated with the cursor is displayed.</li> With the browse still open, use the Window menu to activate the Command window and type:

SET STATUS BAR ON

Note that the Status Bar message now refers to the Testdata!Query cursor.</li></ol>

Additional query words: 5.00 VfoxWin kbvfp300 kbvfp300b kbvfp500

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB141723

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