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  • Foxpro's Dirty Little Secret?
    by rHowe11
    8 Replies
    Last post by rHowe11
      • Arrgg! If I had a dime for every hour I've spent wrestling with Foxpro's error handling paradigm... Here's a new gotcha: Apparently, when an error occurs in a combo box valid event handler, and the error is handled by a try/catch block outside of the form, a reference to the combo object is stored in some mystery memory location, preventing the combo box (and thus the form) from being destro
  • Automatic Testing Tools
    by Ptaveras
    2 Replies
    Last post by chanmy8
      • Does anyone has experience with a tool that helps to automate the testing process for a huge application built in VFOX 8.0. I found many tools for that purpose but not many support Visual Fox Pro.
  • Dot matrix printers with Visual Foxpro
    by Farhat Fakih
    14 Replies
    Last post by Lakshmi N
      • Hello all, We are in the process of converting an old Foxpro 2.6 (DOS) software into VFP, the problem that we face is that the printing is very slow on dot-matrix printers We cannot shift to laser printer as the stationery is pre-printed and has to be multi-part. Can anybody offer the solution Thanks in advance
  • Rotation vfp helpfiles not working
    by Fox Me Up
    5 Replies
    Last post by AndyKr
      • this code is copied straight from vfp 9.0 help files. i just added the two paramateres this code works in vfp and when i run just the application on the computer that has vfp installed. however it is not working on non vfp computers. on a non vfp computer all i see is a wait window that says rendering and its tallying up the pages. PARAMETERS REPNAME,ANGLE_OF_TILT LOCAL oListener o
  • VFP 9.0 - options mostly grayed out, why?
    by Birdman
    4 Replies
    Last post by Naomi Nosonovsky
      • VFP 9.0 options are almost all grayed out, does anyone know why that could be I am a new VFP user. Have installed VFP 9.0, to query someone else's FP database. The installation was on WinXP, without apparent issues. VFP can open the database & I can click on the tables and see what's in 'em, but that's it. Wizard is grayed out so I can't use the query wizard. Almost everything is grayed out.
  • Combo Quick fill while combo is expanded.
    by Aleniko29139
    6 Replies
    Last post by Aleniko
      • Hi all; I have a class which uses code Marcia Akins posted here (Thanks Marcia). The code uses the InteractiveChange of the combo in order to produce a quick fill functionality. The problem: This won't work when the combo is expanded. I've tried to utilize the kepress method but it didn't work. Is there a place I can disable the inherent functionality of the combo when its expanded s
  • wsdl client
    by HowardW
    3 Replies
    Last post by HowardW
      • VFP8 app is working on my development machine - I am able to upload data changes via WSDL, SOAP and diffgrams to a SQL server. I build an exe, run it on the development machine and all is well. Move the exe to a different machine and the statement loObj = Thisform.oVBWS.wsObject.GetTable(ALLTRIM(cTable)) gives error "Error 1992 - WSOBJECT is not a function, procedure or program"
  • VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER
    by RavindraPatil
    5 Replies
    Last post by RavindraPatil
      • HELLO EVERYBODY, IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER OF HARDDISK THROUGH FOXPRO CODING -RAVI
  • system messages (sendmessage api)
    by fvp4ever
    6 Replies
    Last post by fvp4ever
      • I'm going to get system messages sent to my forms for example wm_devicechange which sent by os but I do't know how to do that. any idea thanks
  • impersonateloggedonuser and Getfil()
    by rknh_20
    7 Replies
    Last post by dni
      • Iam running VFP 9 with SP1 under windows 2k. In order to protect my database/table files on a network I have created a single user who has access to the folder where the files are contained. This is the only user with access to the folder. When an individual on the network runs the application the application logs on as that user and has access to the database files...the code goes like this....
  • msxml3.dll error when using XMLTOCUROSR()
    by TonyVFP
    5 Replies
    Last post by AndyKr
      • When using the XMLTOCURSOR() function in version 9, I receive the follow message [msxml3.dll : The system cannot locate the specified object ]. Steps taken include uninstalling VFP9 and reinstalling both 7 and 9 and installing the service pack and registering the dll separately. The code works fine in version 7 but not in 9; Test Code lcxmlalias = 'xmlalias' lcfilename = 'c:\indir\pfpcxm
  • tables read only in relation to READ EVENTS
    by jdlim
    8 Replies
    Last post by jdlim
      • Hello! I added the read events on my main prg. but the problem now is that all my tables are read only but if I take out the read events on my main prg my tables works fine any ideas thanks jevan
  • filter breaks in vfp?
    by jmom
    6 Replies
    Last post by dni
      • Hi, I have a form that used a freetable that is filtered in the load event. select <alias> set filter to <custnumber field> = <certain number> I also have on error set filter to <custnumber field> = <certain number> throughout different parts of update events of my textbuttons Somehow a user got to see an unfiltered table. I have not been able to
  • SQLEXEC
    by RAlvarez579911
    4 Replies
    Last post by Alex Feldstein
      • Been assigned to work on a new project using VFP9, yet am not used to the language yet. At first, the SQLEXEC line was working fine, then suddenly it doesn't return the records its supposed to return. No changes in the database at all, it just stopped retrieving. FUNCTION runClass(tnConnectionId, tcProjectName) LOCAL loPrograms, ; loRates, ; lcFiscalCalendar, ; lcBudg
  • My exe does not running other PC
    by mezofi
    14 Replies
    Last post by mezofi
      • Hi! I built a project and I have a big problem. It is run only my PC, and if I put it on a pendrive (exe). But if I put it on an other PC , this program show only main page. Then when I click someone button, the program show an error message: Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword (Error 36) It is very strange, because if it is on my pendrive the program good have not got any error. Mez fi f
  • importing from excel
    by JonathanVickers
    11 Replies
    Last post by Naomi Nosonovsky
      • Hi, I'm struggling to import from an excel spreadsheet into foxpro. The problem is there's a "remarks" column in the xls which may contain more than 255 characters, so I want to import that column as a memo field. I've tried using APPEND FROM, but that's just putting nulls in the field. I've also tried IMPORT, but that just gives me a character field. I've tried setting up an ODBC connec
  • Visual foxpro 8.0 and multi-page tiff file
    by Stuman99
    2 Replies
    Last post by Stuman99
      • I am wanting to use the report writer to print a multi-page tiff file but can seem to only have the first image in the file print. Is this possible in VFP 8.0
  • Output Program/Utility
    by Brian Branco
    5 Replies
    Last post by Naomi Nosonovsky
      • I have a client with the following reporting requirement. An example would be the report would run off A/R data and the customer uses the source field to categorize customers. Customer A - NJ1 - Invoices dated 03/01/07 - 03/09/07 Customer B - NJ2 - Invoices dated 03/10/07 - 03/31/07 Customer C - NY1 - Invoices dated 03/15/07 - 03/31/07 Customer D - NY2 - Invoices dated
  • Accessing VFP 8 through C# and ODBC
    by KevinInIndy
    12 Replies
    Last post by Craig Berntson
      • Our company has an online product ordering program that accesses our VFP 8 accounting package through an ODBC connection on our server. Occasionally, our system error log table will trap the following error: "ERROR [S1000] [Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]This file is incompatible with the current version of Visual FoxPro. Run 30UPDATE.PRG to update the file to the current version. ER
  • refresh form
    by NILKAMAL
    14 Replies
    Last post by Naomi Nosonovsky
      • hi! i create simple form with table field and i create another two textbox in sam form (which is not table field) when i go to next record the table field got refresh but other two textbox have same value of previous record so can anybody tell me how do i do to refresh all field including textbox( not table field) thanks
  • which is best business application developer language?
    by johan2000
    2 Replies
    Last post by Claude Fox
      • Dear Mr. CetinBasoz Your explanation is very valuable to me... specially for someone who mastered VFOX... So it is any review what is the best business application developer language thanks again
  • REPOST: NOPAGEEJECT not working in VFP9
    by riptramm
    14 Replies
    Last post by Tamar E. Granor
      • If our OKI Microline 320 turbo printer always ejects a page after the command <<REPORT FORM myreportfile.frx TO PRINTER NOPAGEEJECT>> in a program, is this in all likelihood a VFP 9 software bug or is there a simple solution other than printing to a text file Could it be a faulty installation Also we've found that in printing 40 reports using VFP9 report forms, 3 or 4 will print out
  • _screen.scrollbars
    by Aleniko
    5 Replies
    Last post by Tamar E. Granor
      • Hi once again; I'm setting up my app on a tablet pc, and in some cases I need to be able to scroll the entire content of the VFP desktop. I tried to set _screen.scrollbars = 3 at the start of my app but that won't affect the VFP desktop. When a form that is designed to run on a 1024X768 is run on a smaller res screen, the form's close buttons are not visible so it is basically impossible to close
  • How to create a Shell Extension in VFP
    by DaCosta11
    1 Replies
    Last post by AndyKr
      • Does anyone knows how to create a Shell Extension using VFP The Shell Extension are DLLs loaded by windows when the user right-click an object in Explorer. The DLLs add menu items to the context menu so the user could use some use full aplication or behaviour on the object. I talk to some people but the only thing they know is how to do it in C++ or Delphi.
  • Performance of Foxpro OLEDB
    by cajin
    13 Replies
    Last post by CetinBasoz
      • I am working on a project which accesses foxpro 9.0sp1 database through OLEDB. The datbase has about 1million records. My code simple and straighforward just like below, conn.Open(); OleDbCommand cmd = conn.CreateCommand(); cmd.CommandText = "DELETE FROM mytable" cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() conn.Close(); But it will take a very long time to mark all records as deleted