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• QualyLee picturebutton in Foxpro 8 and 9

  Hi there, I have a maybe dumb question. I would like to use a graphic as a button with text on it that i can change. This is easy with the button object but on that i am not able to place the text over the graphic, showing only the graphic with the text on it. Text cut just be placed obove, under left and right off the graphic. I tried to use a graphic object with a text label over it,  looks good but the label blocks the mouseclick to the ...Show All

• Muthu Krishnan.R 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

• deathack forms

  hi everyone i have a small problem with forms. i have made a form with some controls and stuff on it. i have also added the resizable class library to it so the form and the controls can be resized. until now everything works perfectly. but the problem comes when i make an executable .exe file of my project which runs the form. now when you run the .exe file foxpro creates another foxpro system window outside of the main form and now if i try t ...Show All

• Eyfel Quit

  hi, i have a main.prg that runs the form where the users are goin to login, this is the code of the main.prg: CLOSE ALL CLEAR ALL SET DEFAULT TO c:\payroll SET SAFETY OFF SET CENTURY ON SET DELETED ON SET TALK OFF SET CONFIRM OFF SET SYSMENU off _screen.windowstate = 2 _screen.caption = "Payroll System" _screen.Icon = 'C:\PAYROLL\BMP\GRAPH12.ICO' _screen.Closable = .f. do form frmlogin do menu.mnx READ events after ru ...Show All

• bfellner How do I synchronize my workstation system clock with the server clock?

  good day to everybody I wanted that my workstation clock will be updated at the server just at the click of a button. So, How do I synchronize the system clock in my workstation with the system clock at the server using vfp .  Thank you very much for the help So this will automatically change the clients system clock() or just shown the server's time .  My understanding is that it just show the time at the server but will not a ...Show All

• Natalie Casey Encryption Questions

  I have written two Functions one for encryption and one for Decryption (using _crypt.vcx), I would like to encrypt all data in my app . I have a few Questions… 1) When creating my tables what do I use for datatypes 2) What about indexing Do I index on Decypt(field1). 3) What about SQL Do I do Select Decypt(field1), Decypt(field2)… 4) What about select * . Is it supposed to be this big of a pain or am I just going ...Show All

• Fernando Angelieri Setting fonts system for Windows in VFP?

  Hello! Help me for setting fonts system (fonts apply menu, title bar windows, tooltip) for Windows in VFP and automatic install my font in windows Example: I have folder my font: D:\myprog\fonts fontsys.fon font1.ttf font2.ttf ... How to install these fonts in Windows when I setup my program Thank you! Add it to the Font folder in your I ...Show All

• nelson rodriguez My software helps young woman win Microsoft's "Start Something New" Competiton!

  A customer of mine won an award from Microsoft using my software today.  Bill Gates met with her and received a crash course in my program . Pretty wild.  Again not a programming message but you all helped me make this program the best it could be and it is nice to see it on Microsoft's web site : htt p://www.mi crosoft.co m/windowsx p/homeuser s/awards/s ports.mspx Don Higgins Don Higgins www.crewchiefpro.com ...Show All

• Apolo H how to SET DEFAULT TO "running program's dir" ?

  Please Help.... <SET DEFAULT changes the default directory to the directory you specify. MicrosoftR Visual FoxProR searches for a file in the default Visual FoxPro directory. The default directory is the one from which you start Visual FoxPro.> If A program called “DISP.EXE” displaying customer.dbf installed in a directory Created by user, then how to tell the DISP.EXE to look for the database (customer.dbf) The problem is if   ...Show All

• zeromus empty field

  is there a better way of checking for empty fields than select *; from myTable; where field1 = " "; into cursor data1 i need to run a complete check on the database for empty records in every field. How would i check for a 'date' data field Mike This is what I found when I dumped dBase memo fields into .txt files: the lines do seem to get terminated with this pair: CHR(135)+CHR(137). They are ubiquitous. There is a chance the same thing ...Show All

• Eric LAMIDIAUX 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 Alex I have no doubt that the syntax you've shown me is correct ut I am getting an error message in a similar situation. Obviously I am doing something weird: SELECT * FROM cTableAlias ; WHERE ( ...Show All

• burbain checking RTF control for EMPTY ()

  I have trouble checking programmatically that RTF.textRTF is empty. If it is visually empty to the viewer the function EMPTY (RTF.textRTF) returns .F. If I use an assignment m.memVar = RTF.textRTF I can print it out as a set of strings (about 3) of formatting characters. It is after the control was filled with some text and subsequently that text was deleted (manually) in the control window. How can a test be done to verify that the control i ...Show All

• rejm similiar fields

  Hi I'm trying to cross reference records from two different databases by first and last name. I can pull most the records (about 1500 out of 1700) on straight forward comparison of (a.firstname = b.firstname) and (a.lastname=b.lastname) as for the rest, is there a way to check if one name is similiar to another (in case of a typo, or mis-spelling of the name) Thanks, Mike Tha ...Show All

• C Dionne How to copy files from a local hard drive to ftp server?

  Hi! How will i copy files from a local hard drive to a certain ftp server and vice versa using VFP Do you know of a commands that will make this situation possible Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! Regards, Alfred N. Roa West Wind Web Tools - wwIPStuff allows you to do FTP and much more through VFP http://www.west-wind.com/webtools.htm Using Win32 (WinAPI) Functions (using MS WinInet.DLL) http://www.news2ne ...Show All

• Steve-0 seek char+date

  dear all, i seek stockist code+invoice date but failed to seek. why what i had done... use invoice shared index on code+dtoc(inv_date) to invoice.idx set index to invoice.idx seek code+dtoc(thisform.txtInvdate.value) but failed to seek. thanks. thanks for your reply. i know there is a code to do so.if i found i will post it to here so as other forummers can take benefits from it. CDX is not ...Show All