Visual FoxPro Problem or Windows 7 Problem?

[Menglish]

I am using Visual FoxPro 9.0, SP2 and Windows 7 operating system. Lately, I have clients (customers)and myself having a problem with a form operating erratically. I have a phone field with the mask 999-999-9999. It has been working fine for a couple of years. Today it quit working and only displays 999-999-9999 in the input window and is not editable. I went in and remove the mask and saved. I went right back in and put 999-999-9999 in the mask and it is working fine. I have this happening on several clients that use Window 7 and VFP 9.00 SP2. Has anyone else experienced this? It is not limited to this one field as I have had this happen with alpha fields also.

Note: The program is not compiled and is running VFP 9.0

Any ideas?

 

[Dan Freeman]

You're not telling the whole story here.

Surely, InputMask isn't the ONLY property controlling this? Surely you have something in the Format property as well?

And you mention "alpha fields also" .... is this field numeric? Why?

If you're exposing your source (scx/sct) to end-users, you're sort of at the mercy of what they'll do.

 

[FoxPro20Years]

I have seen this happen if the field looses it's control source.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Menglish,

Whenever I see a question that says that something has been working fine for a couple of years, but today it quit working, the answer is always to look for what has changed.

Things don't stop working on their own. Something must have changed: something in your program code, or the data, or the environment, or something else. If you can identify what has changed, you will be most of the way to solving the problem.

In the title of your question, you mentioned Windows 7. But you didn't say that Windows 7 was the thing that changed. To find out, you would have to know if this behaviour always happens under Windows 7, and never happens under other versions.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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