This started happening to me - and lots of other folks as well. The cause was traced to the Visual Source Safe DLL that shipped with SP 3. The solution was to re-insall the older version of VSS.


>Here's a new one. I have some code that is causing VFP to quit without warning. The code that is causing this is:
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>CovAmountString = PADL(TRANSFORM(CovAmounts[i], "99.99X"),COLUMN_WIDTH)
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>where CovAmounts[i] contains a Currency value
>($15.1523 for example)
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>and COLUMN WIDTH is a defined constant with the value of 12
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>this code does not generate an error, or even a Dr. Watson. It just shuts VFP down cleanly and quickly (no remnants in the task manager). But it doesn't do it every time.
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>This code causes this in design mode, as well as in the compiled exe, and I can watch it happen in the debugger (and yes, I have verified all values)
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>I have created many variations of the code:
>test1 = CovAmounts[i]
>intest1 = $ 16.4572
>test3 = TRANSFORM($ 16.4572, "99.99")
>test4 = TRANSFORM(intest1, "99.99")
>intest1 = CovAmounts[i]
>test2 = TRANSFORM(CovAmounts[i], "99.99")
>test4 = PADL(TRANSFORM(intest1, "99.99X"),12)
>test5 = PADL(TRANSFORM(CovAmounts[i], "99.99X"),25)
>test6 = PADL(TRANSFORM(CovAmounts[i], "99.99X"),6)
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> and some of these cause the error sporadically too. The offending lines are in a tight loop, so it may not fail on the first iteration, but it usually does on one of them.
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>Probably irrelevant but possibly related info:
>NT 4.0 SP 3, VFP 5.0a
>I recently installed Adobe PDFWriter and Distiller, but this is not present on other machines where the shutdown happens. This app is installed on 10 other machines and 3 so far have seen this behavior.
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>What is going on? Do I need to reinstall VFP?
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>This code is in a very important and often used routine, so any help will be greatly appreciated.