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• Sam Jarawan MSFT Biometrics on VFP

  Hi,    I have this biometrics device which am planning to integrate in Visula Foxpro... what will i do to capture the finger print using the VFP application, is there any Add-on component for the VFP to enable it from doing so Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you! Regards, -Dodo Roa- Hello. There is no standard for this that I know of. The company that delivers the biometric device is likely to have a SDK ( ...Show All

• Gregoire de Jabrun Oleboundcontrol

  Hi Everyone, This is my first time to post a question about VFP 6.0.  I want to display a .JPG pict on the oleboundcontrol but everytime i try to retrieve a .JPG it displays only the icon and not the actual picture.  It seems that it only supports the .BMP pictures, how can I get the .JPG and displays it. Thank you in advance. VFP avid fan Cetin's correct. Better yet would be to upgrade to VFP 9.0 to easily display JPG ...Show All

• raja chilukuri How to play a Windows Media Audio format (WMA) in VFP?

  Hi all, I am now trying to create a small program to play media audio files. I'm now using the MultiMedia ActiveX control (mci.ocx) to play these files but this ocx seems can not play WMA files while this type of file is getting more and more popular to music-lovers. Could anyone tell me how to play WMA files in VFP. Note:I want to play them directly in VFP with MCI control or with some API function that VFP can handle,  ...Show All

• Orlin visionpace website

  Anyone else having trouble reaching the visionpace website http://www.visionpace.com I can get to the home page, but some subpages seem to have a problem. I emailed them and got confirmation the web site was down and they were working on getting it back up. It seems to be back up now. :) Thanks Craig. ...Show All

• oldgamer MSCharts.ocx

  I downloaded from http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk/simplechart.zip  the class charts.vcx. This class is based on Microsoft's MSChart ActiveX control  (MSChrt20.Ocx) if you MODIFY CLASS simplechart of <charts.vcx> and Right click on it you will see MSCharts properties option. I want to open that Dialog (MSCharts Properties) in Run-time from an application. I wonder if that is possible and how can I do it ...Show All

• murali_k1 Excel Automation - Charts.

  Hello Guys The code below works fine (complete code). The problem is, how can one set the number of rows in the following lines. These two lines sets the chart data parameters. Although one can use "oSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count" but how to encorporate it in the code. Please complete the following 2 lines. oExcel.ActiveChart.SetSourceData(oSheet.Range("A2:A16,E2:E16"), xlColumns) oExcel.ActiveChart.SeriesCollection(1).XValues = "=History!R2C1:R16C ...Show All

• Bingo Basic small test on transaction atomicity

  Need help with small test on table in database with transaction. Could somebody show state of table after execution this code: CLOSE ALL CLOSE DATABASES OPEN DATABASE "c:\ path to database\data1.dbc" SHARED BEGIN TRANSACTION UPDATE data1! table 1 SET name = 'BBBB BBBB BBBB BBBB BBBB' = Messagebox ('END TRANSACTION') END TRANSACTION if in table1 before execution was 500K records with value "AAAA&q ...Show All

• Dan Lukinykh executable database

  I have constructed a project in VFP 9.0.   I want to make the project an executable database so that others that don’t have VFP installed on their machine can access the forms that display the information.   How do I do this   Also I’ll need to update the table periodically so does this mean I put the table on the server   I’m really lost in all of this.   Thanks Don!  How do ...Show All

• Davide Rinaldi Selecting a section of a grid for cut/paste.

  Hi; I have a client who is interested in selecting portions of a grid and then cut/paste it. Any ideas Thx, AK Hi Aleniko, I assume you mean that the client wants to copy and paste rows from a grid into something else like Excel. You could add a checkbox to each row and let the customer check the desired rows. Then you could do a SQL Select of those rows and use _VFP.DataToClip() to copy the rows from the ...Show All

• reubstr 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

• SLG29 COPY TO Command

  In Visual Foxpro, I am trying to create a CSV file using the COPY TO command with TYPE CSV, but do not want header fields on top of the output file. Furthermore, I am also trying to attach a COMMA after every row. Current Output f1,f2,f3,f4,f5,f6,f7,f8,f9,f10,f11,f12,f13,f14,f15,f16,f17 "0","49162","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0", ...Show All

• Rajiv Roopan access to this.propery

  I've made a class 'adreslijst' and in it's init method I added a string property 'lijst' like this:    this.addproperty('lijst', "bla") in an other method ('export_lijst') that I added to the class adreslijst I want to print the contents of the property 'lijst' like this:     this.lijst when I execute the following code:    object1 = CREATEOBJECT('adreslijst')    object1.export_lijst() ...Show All

• RSUser08 upgrading old foxpro apps

  we currently have foxpro version 5, and a handfull of apps which were developed on it.  the person who developed them has since left us and it has become my job to find a way to upgrade these apps.  the problem is that i don't know the first thing about foxpro - i am a coldfusion guy.  so the biggest thing we want to do is to get the data from the foxpro databases into a sql server database.  if we do this can we still run t ...Show All

• GaryMcCan sdtFont object

  I need to create a stdFont object. Once at one computer I was able to do it in the command window" X = CREATEOBJECT ("stdFont"). Once I put a period behind "X." the IntelliSense menu appeared and gave me a list of properties. When I tried to use it in a method I got an error message that the " class definition STDFONT was not found ." At another machine I cannot get it to work even in the command window. Which ...Show All

• Kishmir L. Burke "feature is not available" - complete diagnostic

  I finally had time to focus on this thing alone and get the error reporting straight. I do have now memo fields with errStamps pertaining to every breakdown. One example: FUNCTION addPropToForm (oForm) oForm.AddProperty ("dBaseWe","",1) oForm.AddProperty ("dirWe","",1) oForm.AddProperty ("comboWe","",1) oForm.AddProperty ("tabWe","",1) ...... ...Show All