Answer Questions

• Tommy Williams - MSFT Updating to memo fields in Foxpro through ODBC using PHP

  Hi everyone, In advance I wanted to thank you for your time in replying to my post.  My company is trying to integrate their current foxpro databases with PHP.  I am using ADODB on the PHP server and connecting using an Visual Foxpro ODBC driver. We are running into an issue where foxpro doesn't allow us to update to memo fields over 255 characters.  I ran across a link , but since I am working in PHP I'm not sure if it applies ...Show All

• Chas75287 Display & list to the screen

  Am new to this - first part of msg disappeared after edit - trying again.   Display or listing a dbf to the screen produces a wrap when it should all be on 1 line. The dbf consists of 6 char fields for a total of 76 characters. Arial 10pt. I am using a 19 " screen so there are gobs of room. VFox 8 doesn't recognize the screen size Have noticed this in older versions as well. Courier spells re ...Show All

• Clifflane URGENT ! How to close FXP compiled files

  hi friends, in my client/sever application some fxp files are opened by users. I need to close this files because i want recompile it. thanks Fabrizio You can close them by using the Computer manger on the server, the Users won’t be affected because the fxp’s are already loaded on the local computer memory. Once they quit the app and log back in the new one will be loaded (the ...Show All

• Nick Y Getting MS Fingerprint Reader to Work with VFP 5.0 Application

  I purchased a Microsoft fingerprint reader installed it on a PC with Windows XP and it works fine. I purchased it to work with a VFP 5.0 application I wrote that will be used by many users and has a login screen  When I try to get the fingerprint reader to work with it I get a message saying it is not a login screen.  There must be a variable or something that the fingerprint reader uses to recognize a login screen. Can anyone help ...Show All

• timothy leung how can we connect to a server which is connected to a modem router?

  I have here also a question for the experts regarding also our server connection which is connected to a dsl line. I have no problem connecting to our server using dial-up, but if I try to connect via internet by supplying the remote with the static IP address for that server. it won't work. I contacted and explain my problem to the personnel responsible at our I.S.P. here, he just told me that the problem is in the APPLICATION i am using. he sa ...Show All

• NoelAnthony Laser Printer Problem with VFP

  HI! I designed a Software in VFP 6 & also developed Some Reports.Problem is when i use Printer Like Epson Dot Matrix & other epson series it works fine but when i install Laser printer & want to use, then my software even System hang.I have to do restart my system. I wanna use any time of printer with my VFP software but it's not working with Laser printer. Guide me & solve my this problem. Thanks Syed Zishan Kalam It' ...Show All

• sgrussell Which is best?

  Which is better I am thinking mainly in terms of maintainability and readability, perhaps even performance issues. This way  *-- Check overridding the bank account is even allowed If This.lBankAssigned     *-- Bank Account has already been assigned by TCustomer.NewReceipt()     If Empty(This.oCustomer.oProfile.cNominalBankAccount)         *-- Check sales p ...Show All

• khush Foxpro problem I think

  Hi, I have made an program in foxpro wich will archieve mail. what I do is I first export the mail body, sender, etc to text files with vba and than get them back with foxpro, but sometimes the layout changes when I put it back. Has this something to do with that I exprot them to text files or is it something different please help >> but sometimes the layout changes when I put it back. ...Show All

• Lex007 VFP9 Web Services WSE 2.0

  Hi. WSE 2.0 introduced a method of attaching files when calling web services. Are WSE 2.0 extensions usable in VFP Web Services REgards Dave Not as far as I know. VFP uses SOAP. ...Show All

• Tadeusz Line Printer Font (16.66cpi)

  I have a lot of old DOS reports I am converting to Visual FoxPro. Most of them are using the "Line Printer" font with 16.66cpi. If I continue to use the "Line Printer" font in Windows the reports will print fine to the printer but will not print to the screen properly. I believe this is because the "Line Printer" font is not a TrueType font, but I can not find a true 16.66cpi TrueType font. Does anyone know how I ca ...Show All

• abw2003 With ... EndWith

  How does nesting work with With ... EndWith Does VFP work out which object I am referring to if I just enter .cDescription for example Is there a potential for ambiguity if the 2 objects have the same property I would like to use nested With ... EndWith but I am wary of introducing some difficult to find bugs. Oh it is partially my fault I think. Probaly I sounded to be competing/objecting with my message. ...Show All

• Hello i foxpro2.5 application migration from windows98 to XP (Urgent)

  Hi All, I have to migrate the existing data which is on windows98 to windows XP. My application is working fine on 98, but when I copied the files (almost all) into xp The application throws error “not a table/DBF”. When I open the same DBF file in notepad (one in 98 and other in xp) the xp file has some random characters and numbers in it where as the 98 dbf file I can read my column name. What could be reason Why the DBF file go ...Show All

• Neha_roy Automated Testing

  Does anyone know of any programs that will work with FoxPro for automated testing.  Programs like WinRunner won't see objects in each window, just each window. Vince Look at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/fox7help/html/fotskusingautomatedtestharness.asp http://www.foxunit.org/ Maybe these can help you. I hope so...I've run across a co ...Show All

• William Bain HOW TO CONNECT TO MSDE 2000????

  Hi... I have a problem: I want to connect the FoxPro to an MSDE 200 server...because I need to create an MSDE database and interrogate it! I want to use the OLEDB, but I don't know how I can make the connection to an MSDE server in Fox! So, I need a help to:     make a connection to MSDE server     the command that allow me to create and administrate an MSDE         server wit ...Show All

• King Interested in VB.NET can i use pack command to local view or remote view?if not,how can i do the same function?

  thank you i got it.thank you Hey jet, if the reply above was the right answer you can click the "mark as correct answer" button! No you cannot pack a view. I issue a: =TABLEUPDATE(.T.,.T.) Then I close and reopen the view. ...Show All