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FIX: Label Caption Longer Than 255 Characters Causes GPF

Article ID: 159269

Article Last Modified on 3/24/2000

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q159269

SYMPTOMS

Visual FoxPro 5.0 causes a General Protection Fault (GPF) when the caption property of a Label is set more than 255 characters.

WORKAROUND

Set the caption property of a Label to something less than 255 characters.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

This behavior happens only in Visual FoxPro 5.0; it works as expected in Visual FoxPro 3.0 or 3.0b.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Create a Form and place a Label on it.

In the INIT method of the form, put in the following code:

      ThisForm.Label1.Caption = Replicate("X",256)

Save and run the form.

NOTE: Visual FoxPro terminates immediately when the form runs. (Generally the fault is an "Invalid Page Fault.")

Additional query words: kbdse vfoxwin

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvfp600fix KB159269