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• Jason Fransella vfp that monitor incoming & outgoing telephone call

  Good day to everybody, Just asking where could I find a sample of telephone monitoring system using VFP.  A program that monitor an incoming call, or outgoing call and record its  time usage. And if .OCX is to be use here, what .OCX I will use Thank you very much Madix_t Thank you very much eric, have a nice day Hello, Search the web for TAPI. I know that the libraries from exceletel.com work with VFP. Goo ...Show All

• SteveMargolis Close button on Print Preview toolbar

  Can you modify the Close button on Print Preview toolbar in Visual Foxpro 6.0. I need to remove the picture of Close button and put the text "CLOSE" on the button. can you do this in VFP 6.0 Please help. Thanks, Sanj. Hi Sanj, There are several options. If you only want to remove the button entirely, you can create a new FOXUSER file with a modified toolbar definition: 1) Make a copy of your current ...Show All

• Bek11 Working Folder

  With VFP 3.0 I always checked whether the EXE folder sys(16,0) existed in the same folder as the current working folder set("default") + curdir() . If they did not match then I knew that CONFIG.FPW would not be read. So I would exit and display a message telling the user to modify their shortcut. Is there any way in VFP 6.0 and newer to make sure CONFIG.FPW is read regardless of the current folder or method used to start the program ======= ...Show All

• kiran1234 How to make a form truely private?

  A newbie question: I have a form which I have set it to private datasession. The form has an object which is based on a class: cboacct. This class is a container class which has a cbo and a text box. The cbo takes an acct# and seeks the customer file. Originally the ControSource for the cbo was simply 'acct' and being blobal, it worked fine. I'm trying to use a protected property instead. I have created a protected class property named 'acct'. ...Show All

• hannah_logi VFP 9.0 SQL worthless under a non client server network?

  Hello everyone; I have posted this problem here and also on UT and no solution yet. I have a small network with a 2003 server, and XP pros. I am running vfp 9 select * from products where status = "S0000" takes apx 10 seconds when run over the network. When running this locally, it takes only a fraction of a second. The product table contains 100,000 records, and the result of the SQL command is just a few hundred rec ...Show All

• Daniel Lord 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

• Morad DISKSPACE() trouble

  I have an ActivX OleControl Microsoft treeView V6.0 and as a part of Init() procedure I use DISKSPACE() function just to determine which disk drives (physical as well as mapped network drives) are currently available. If the drive A: does not have a disk in it I get repeated error messages: " Drive is empty, please insert...." It does not do anything like this with DVD/CD R/W drives. They are empty and it is OK. Likewise, if I simply click o ...Show All

• tanha Using a Lan Connection on Visual FoxPro 9

  hi guys...im just new here on this forum...i am about to work on my thesis and i chose visual foxpro 9 as my software development tool..im planning to create an enrollment system for a certain school..im just wondering that if im going to create this type of system, i need to make LAN connections because enrollement system includes sectioning,assessment and payment. actually, i dont have any idea of how LAN works on visual foxpro and the things ...Show All

• soumi Coming from Excel to VFP9 and need help understanding math functions on cells

  I have set up a simple data tracking form that breaks out the associated costs of a vehicle going to Auction ( dealer costs, transportation fees and so on) for my employer. It works great, and I can enter data into the database successfully, and my Report will print it out nicely sorted by Store. I would now like to create cells on my data entry form that calculate and display various math procedures on the data being entered. For instance, ...Show All

• Mark Olsen SELECT wrkArea statement

  Please consider this piece of code. It is a bit weird as far as DO loop goes but it is the way I frequently do things. The problem I run into is the  SELECT statement. USE HistData!myTable IN 0 wrkArea = 0 DO WHILE ! EMPTY (wrkArea+1)   wrkArea = wrkArea + 1   wrkArea   cTableAlias = ALIAS (wrkArea)      IF cTableAlias = "MYTABLE"     SELECT wrkArea    & ...Show All

• PaulWong lan/wan difference

  Hi everyone, I always browse this forum (for a long time now) I get really good info and answers to many of the situations I've encountered during my process of discovering what to do with a VFP application; since I've never work with VFP before. I've learned a lot, but there is still things that I can't figure out. The application runs fine in a LAN environment, but when is accessed in a Wan environment, there is specifically one form that ...Show All

• RCroft How do I open an xls file I exported from a command button?

  I have successfully figured out how to export a selected portion of a table to an xls file ( :) ) from a command button. The icing on the cake would be for it to also automatically open the sheet for viewing by the user. I have figured out how to do this via a hyperlink, but now there's an additional click involved and it doesn't seem as elegant. Any ideas Thanks! Your example uses COM Automation to open an instance of Excel as an ob ...Show All

• Spatulaman Inicializar porta COM

  Tenho uma aplicacao desenvolvida em Foxpro(Dos) que usa um visor de clientes para mostrar informacao. Em Win98 funciona tudo bem, basta para isso inicializar a porta COM com o mode com1,9600,n,8,1. Agora esse programa foi instalado em Windows XP e nao consegue comunicar com a porta. Quando faco um dir >com1 funciona, mas na aplicacao nao. O que poderei fazer Obrigado. Dundee, Este e um foro em ingles. ...Show All

• GSXP Getting the current row number in a grid

  Hi, I am using a grid in a form with grid1.AllowCellSelection = .T. The .RowSource of the grid is a table. I need to locate the row of a table when I move back and forth in the grid. I mean when I hold a shift + rt. mouse button down on a particular row of a column I should be able locate that data in the corresponding table linked to the grid. I thought if I have the following code in the grid.AfterRowColChange I can get the row number ...Show All

• cyn_atl sometimes no response to mouse clicks.

  I have always had problems with items in VFP requiring more than one try in order for them to respond to a mouse click. For example, many times I have to double click again in order for an item in the project manager to open. Now I have noticed that this happens also in the runtime. Users click a page tab in a page frame, and nothing happens. They click again, and al is good. Anyone confronted this kind of problem Thx. ...Show All