Microsoft KB Archive/221645

= FIX: _SCREEN.Forms[ ] Collection Not Available at Design-Time =

Article ID: 221645

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 Q221645



SYMPTOMS
In Visual FoxPro 6.0, the _SCREEN.Forms[ ] Collection is not available at design-time. Attempting to access methods of the collection results in error messages or incorrect results. In Visual FoxPro 5.0x, you could access elements of the collection at design-time.



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
  Type the following in the Command window to create a form: CREATE FORM Ztest   In Command window, type in the following commands: ? _SCREEN.FormCount ? _SCREEN.Forms[1].name The first line of code produces 0. The second line of code produces the error message:

FORMS is not an object.



Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbcontainer kbctrl kbvs600sp3fix KB221645

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