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• ongsw TXT Files

  Hi there!!! Does anyboady knows how can i print a TXT file in foxpro I don't know what can i do, I've never used VFP before and I need to do this Thanx a lot!!! Alex's right, and you can also try this: put a text box on a form, called txtport. You can specify a port (lpt1, com1...) in that field. And COPY FILE works well in that way: COPY FILE something.txt TO ( thisform .txtport. Value ) There are several ways. The s ...Show All

• Bill Howell Buffer Overrun Detected!

  Hi All ! I am getting an error when I try to execute some common tasks on VFP8... The error is called by Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library : "Buffer Overrun Detected! Program : c:\program files\visual fox pro 8\vfp8.exe A buffer overrun has been detected which has corrupted de program’s internal state. The program cannot safely continue execution an must now be terminated. " Does anybody knows what is happenin ...Show All

• Brett - Houston can i use the free table in the cursoradapter?

  i found i can't use free table for CA. Jet You can use free table. You can use the CursorAttach method to attach a free table to CA and use CursorDetach method to detach a table from CA. ...Show All

• OliNagel line/column numbers are not displayed

  In the status bar of my source code editor there are no column or line numbers. I go to Edit-->Properties and the checkbox "show line/column position" is properly checked. The help says that the numbers aren't displayed if wordwrap enabled. It is unaccessible in my editor properties dialog box. I cannot enable it because it dimmed. What else is missing here Thanks. Try SET MESSAGE TO in the command window. I find some of the VFP t ...Show All

• eebarroso Enhancement Request: Ability to pass cursors as parameters

  The ability to pass a cursor to a method of an object belonging to another data session would be a great addition for a future versions of VFP. Today, we have to resort to arrays, which is kind of a kludge, or CursorToXML/XMLToCursor, which is way too slow for large data sets. If cursor could be passed between data sessions, n-tier apps would benefit greatly. Any thoughts Eyvind.   Lisa Slater Nicholls ...Show All

• Matt Lalonde Use or not BLOB fields with SQL Server

  Hi: We are deciding which would be the better approach for managing a lot of files ( PDF, JPG, DOC, DWG, ETC. ). We are speaking about thousand of files and thousand of megabites. As far as we are developing with VFP 9.0, we would be able to use BLOB fields. But we are not sure if it will be the best choice for us, taking in account, the amount and sizes of the files. Could anyone help us Regards, Ana Madrid, Spain www.amby.net www.PortalFox.c ...Show All

• WEPHenn editbox programmatic change

  I am looking for an easy way to determine if I've made interactive change in an editor box. The issue is that there are about 16 controls on a container, they are initialized from a table record thus their values at activate time generally are not trivial default. I have to save the changes with a SAVE button if I made any but I want this button's click method to quickly determine which control values have been changed. I do not want to do REPLA ...Show All

• Andy Davis use the reccount

  hello all  I use "set filter to" and want to know how much record is match the filter condition. I use the "reccount()"  but it return the result is not I want. it is all the record count Interesting! Additional questions: You mean we should use SELECT ALL .. FROM.. WHERE <filter condision> . How do I address the resulting set Does it have the same alias name as ...Show All

• Ron Fowler Time format saved a character field

  Hi, Can somebody pls help me figure out how am i going to compute the time format such as this one "05:32:44" saved in a character field. The output should also be a time format not like this one when i'm summing up all the records "190:119:255". The time is in this format Hour:Minute:Second. I will appreciate very much if somebody can help me on this. Thank you in advance Hi Alex, How do you d ...Show All

• coral bao coming back to foxpro

  used foxpro 2.5 and now have visual fp.  am having trouble lwith iff and if then syntax.  i want to have user enter a zip code and then the city and state are filled in.  thanks for any help What is the trouble you're having with iif() and if ... endif syntax They both existed in Fox2x too as far as I remember, no Though I'm also a 3rd party vendor, it looks like a little heavy to buy a 3 ...Show All

• Manojit Paul using vars in a thisform. statment

  Hello again, I have a problem using a variable in a thisform. statment. I tried it using the following code: IF v_sichtbar < 10 then         DO WHILE v_sichtbar < 11             v_button = "button0"+ALLTRIM(STR(v_sichtbar))             v_label = "label"+ALLTRIM(STR(v_sichtbar))         &nb ...Show All

• Olivia Luo Set talk, set deleted in forms.

  Hi; I am issuing SET TALK OFF and SET DELE ON in my application. Later on, when the user opens up a form, set TALK goes ON and in some cases SET DELE goes OFF. I have used the debugger, and I can't seem to find where exactly this happens, although its at the load event. There is nothing there to turn it on. So - what am I missing Aleniko Dave, Andy... One more obstacle cleared... T ...Show All

• foolish frost pulling data from one field and making a new column out of it

  Hi all!!! I have two fields, work_id and sp_id. All sp_id's are related to the work_id's ie. work_id sp_id 1 000 3 000 3 111 5 111 9 000 9 111 i need the data to be listed by the work_id, then in another colum have it state whether it is one sp_id, the other sp_id or both sp_id work_id sp_id 1 000 3 both 5 111 9 both any insight life is short ...Show All

• fazee4u Grid headers default mouse pointers etc...

  Hi all; I am creating grids in my forms by dropping a table into the form. The default header's mouse icon is a down arrow which misleads the user into thinking that the column can be sorted. Is there a way to change this default so it doesn't have the down arrow Thx. >> But my question is how to make it so I don't need to go over my 45 fields in the grid and do so. You could try using the ...Show All

• j1rider cannot generate an exec file

  I just finished a large project and tried to generate an .exe file from it. I encountered the following problems. BUILD EXE FROM ..... issued from the Command Window gives me a series of errors. The first one is entirely unexpected. It claims that a file "inpARR" could not be found. When I click on "locate' it offers me a file dialog box to find it. I definitely do not have any reference to a file by this name anywhere in my pr ...Show All