KB173237 - FIX: The BarCode font is not displayed or printed correctly in Visual FoxPro 5.0a

Article ID: 173237

Article Last Modified on 2/2/2005

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a

This article was previously published under Q173237

SYMPTOMS

Visual FoxPro v5.0a is not able to display or print the BarCode font correctly.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been corrected in the version of Visual FoxPro v5.0a that ships with the Visual Studio Service Pack 3.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

MORE INFORMATION

If you have a BarCode font installed on your system and you set the fonts for objects to it, the objects are not displayed in the BarCode format at design-time or at run-time. This behavior occurs with Forms, Reports, or any other Visual FoxPro object that displays data. The same BarCode font displays correctly in Microsoft Word and Excel.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

The following steps are based on the assumption that a BarCode font is already installed on your system:

Open a New Report or a Form using the Report or the Form Designer, respectively.
Add some objects that display data to the report (for example, Fields or Labels) or the form (for example, TextBox, ListBox, or Grid).
Select one of the objects. For the report, set the Font of the object to the Barcode font from the Fonts dialog (Format-->Font). For a form, set the FontName property of the object to the BarCode Font.
In the Report/Form Designer, note that the object does not display its contents with the BarCode format.
Repeat step 4 for several objects and note that none of them are displayed with the BarCode format.
Preview/Print the Report or run the Form, and note that the objects that are assigned the BarCode font do not display in the BarCode Format.

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