Article ID: 250350
Article Last Modified on 1/18/2000
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q250350
SYMPTOMS
When printing characters to the desktop in Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0, the following error might occur:
This error does not appear to occur in Visual FoxPro 3.0, 5.0, or 5.0a.
RESOLUTION
In the example below, removing the @...BOX command or the SAVE SCREEN TO and RESTORE SCREEN FROM commands prevents the error message.
Also, using @...CLEAR instead of simply using CLEAR between the RESTORE SCREEN commands prevents the error message.
MORE INFORMATION
This error most often occurs when converting legacy code from FoxPro 2.x for Microsoft Windows or MS-DOS into Visual FoxPro 6.0. Upgrading to Microsoft Visual Studio Service Pack 3 does not fix the problem. In the code example below, the @...BOX, SAVE SCREEN, and RESTORE SCREEN commands act to cause the error. However, printing other characters or using other commands to display data to the desktop might also cause the problem.
Steps to Reproduce Behavior
Create a program containing the following code and execute it:
FOR i=1 TO 10
@1,1 SAY ""
SAVE SCREEN && TO scrn2
CLEAR
@ 5,30,5,50 BOX
RESTORE SCREEN && FROM scrn2
CLEAR
RESTORE SCREEN && FROM scrn2
@ 15,1,15,33 BOX
ENDFOR
Note that the error mentioned in the "Symptoms" section of this article appears repeatedly.
REFERENCES
For additional information this error message, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
162301 FIX: @ SAY Causes Error After SET DEVICE to PRINTER Command
Keywords: kbxbase kbprb kbpending KB250350
