FIX: Record In Use Message Editing in Browse and Using Find Dialog Box
Article ID: 179294
Article Last Modified on 5/10/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b for Macintosh
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
This article was previously published under Q179294
SYMPTOMS
When you Browse a table and use the Find dialog box to locate records for
editing, the following error message appears when you are editing records:
Record is in use by another user.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs under the three following conditions:
- A table has been opened for browsing with buffering enabled.
-or-
- The Find dialog box (CTRL-F) is used to locate records for editing.
-or-
- Successive records are found and then edited.
RESOLUTION
Here are three workarounds for this behavior:
- Move the record pointer off an edited record before finding the next
record.
-or-
- Use the default buffering mode.
-or-
- Use a SEEK or LOCATE command.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at the beginning of this article. This has been corrected in Visual FoxPro
6.0.
Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvfp600fix kbprb KB179294