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• alex2323 import from excel

  how can i import an excel sheet with huge text on some cells... i try it, but the character field is only 254 chars size, i did try to create a table and then append the big text cells to memo fields, but they remain empty... thanks for the help !! I wrote this a while ago to convert an excel file to a foxpro dbf... its need some cleaning up but it should give you a good start. Dave * * FNXLSTODBF * ** *FUNCTION TO ...Show All

• Ollie Riches 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

• Jigabyte 2 open files for a foxpro.exe file being used by a particular user

  When you run a foxpro application exe file that is located on a server from a workstation it will display 2 instances of the application being accessed by a particular user. You can verify this by going to: Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Managment/Share Folders/Open files. You will see 2 open files for a foxpro.exe file being used by a particular user. This seems to only happen with foxpro applications. Why is this By defau ...Show All

• spinu small form failure

  I have created a small form to display messages from a larger major app form. It is supposed to display a message for 3 seconds and then disappear. It took me 5 min to make it. It can display its face no problem when run from a browser. The next step was to invoke if programmatically from the main app. I use SET PROCEDURE TO "C:\.....\formName.sct" command. It must be a compiled form file. This statement did not accept anything else, like *.s ...Show All

• Athar.Iqbal VFP 9 ReportListener is not WYSIWYG ?

  Hello All, The problem I'm having is that I'm getting different outputs on preview screen and printed output. I'm using VFP ReportListener object with my report. I have a multi line text field inside a box. It looks good on the preview screen, but when I print it, the text goes over the box. The text on the screen is shorter than the printed output. I don't know if it's a VFP bug or I do something wrong. Thank you in advance. Veda ...Show All

• Jey23 newKey() method not found

  I have visited this ng before with great success always getting comprehensive explanations. I started about 3 months ago and was active for about 2-3 weeks. I then switched to C#, C++ and SQL Server and I found the atmosphere in those groups much less hospitable than here. You guys are great. I got my infusion of knowledge at that time that allowed me a jump start. Now I am doing some FoxPro stuff again by necessity. I am trying to implement a M ...Show All

• Gerardo Rossi about a project in VFP9

  Please tell me, is a diferent if I create a project (with Project manager) after I have all elements of my aplication (data base, tables, forms, reports, menu, etc) and I will include them in new project, or I must create a project, before I will start to create any componets of aplication Thank you. Hi Nigel, One thing no one has mentioned is that you can drag-drop files from Windows Explorer rig ...Show All

• SoniaJulka InteractiveChange

  I have a combo box with a list and a text box with a discription on a form.  In the combo box's InteractiveChange I have added THISFORM.REFRESH When I run the form and select something from the combo it does change it in the textbox but nothing is displayed in the combo box anymore and it won't let me reselect anything else "set step on" stops the program execution so you can trace it. Once the progra ...Show All

• ReportGuru DELETE FOR-PACK ON BUFFERED TABLES

  I have a buffered(5-optimistic )tables in vfp 9.0.when i use delete the records arent deleted i use tableupdate but they dont get deleted.i use pack but i get a msg saying table should be in no buffered mode i then change buff to 0 (not programmatically with cursorset.. but from dataenviroment) but is still get the msg! how can i delete a record table must be in buffered mode Deleting marks the record as delet ...Show All

• windream problems on textbox in VFP

  hi guys...i just want to ask about this problem on textbox in VFP...because compared to Visual Basic, when i try to press the backspace to erase the characters on it,it erases and goes to the beginning of the textbox...but on VFP, when i try to erase the characters on the textbox, it erases too but goes to other controls or sometimes if you have two textboxes,it will go the second textbox and then pressing backspace again will go back to the fir ...Show All

• masterblaster Error Loading File - Record Number...

  I have been struggling with this for the better part of this week. When I try and load a form it gives me this error Error loading file - Record number 41. Formset <or one of its members> Parent: Function arguement value, or count is invalid. Looking in the .SCX and the Parent coloumn, the record is an empty memo field. I have very little experience in trying to fix a problem like this and could really use some help. J.Newman ...Show All

• oak-net cryptography failure

  I use _cryptapi class of the _CRYPT class library to encrypt limited amount of information: ids and passwords. They are in a table and the table feeds treeview items on demand. Before appearing in treeview the field values are automatically decrypted. Everything has been working fine until I noticed a problem yesterday. I have done most of development on C: drive but recently began moving the whole project to a G: drive since I set a new OS u ...Show All

• edgtr [noob questions] Arrays..

  Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgggghhhhhgadsfhasdjhf 1. Is foxpro incapable of returning an array from a function by using the return statement  2. Does foxpro have a function that merges 2 arrays 3. How do you pass an array as an argument to a function in a class when the array is a class variable For example: define class test as Custom     dimension Arr(1)        procedure asdf(tmpArray, tmp ...Show All

• Wolfgang Kamir How To Create a mobile apllication With Visual Foxpro ?

  Excuse me for my English ... It' s possible create application for Windows Mobile using a Visual Foxpro language How to create How to Compile How Object Using Andrea, You cannot do it directly as there are no Visual FoxPro runtimes for Windows CE. You can use other tools like .NET Compact Framework. You can exchange data with VFP different ways, like SQL Server CE, ADO.NET CE and webservices. You can also use other options like AppFo ...Show All

• viki Report Issues for VFP9 after upgrade from VFP8

  Hello I have issues with various reports after I upgraded from VFP8 to VFP9. Basically, I create a cursor in my form and issue the following command to print the report. SELECT cur_mycursor GO TOP REPORT FORM myreport TO PRINTER PROMPT NOCONSOLE In the report, the fields refer to the cursor by cur_mycursor.fieldname. some reports omit the cur_mycursor. What happens is that when I run the report as above, it does not print correct ...Show All