Recent content by ajpa

BillvV, How amazing to get a reply after all this time! Thank you. What I eventually did was to use an ordinary text box, enter rtf tags manually as required, and then make the program assemble a full rtf file by stitching together all the various headers needed. But your solution seems far...

Thank you, both, for this helpful advice. I'm now able to access the data. Tony

Rick Thanks for this. I've downloaded the file successfully. I had in fact visited this site, but didn't really know what I was looking for. The documentation says that I need and ODBC Driver Manager V3.0 such as that provided by Microsoft. I can't locate anything on the Microsoft site, and...

Did you ever find out how to do this? I've just found this thread while searching on 'omnis', as I want to decode a *.df1 file.

Does anyone know how to decode an omnis data file (*.df1)? 'Search' reveals half a dozen questions on Omnis, none of them answered! Tony Ayres

Mike, Yes, I know, because I have written one or two small single-form applications which sit happily on a remote server (and use solutions provided by kind members from this forum). It's just that my biggest application sits on the local net in my office, so it isn't stand-alone (and in any...

Aha... I've discovered that HIDE WINDOW COMMAND (with or without the quotes) *does* work if issued from within a form. So a very crude way of achieving the effect is to call a dummy form from the main program, stuff the keyboard buffer with {enter} in the Init method, and provide a single...

That's a good idea, and I'll adopt it. I'm modifying forms interactively, and setting all the properties from the properties window. As things are now, and the application having had a spell with the READ EVENTS in place, the most recent form I've been working on (and only that form) seems to...

Hmmm... There is actually another problem: all the various forms now seem to want to act as a single unit, and I'm getting messages protesting that I've illegally redefined objects (I'm afraid I haven't got to grips with defining classes yet, and I tend to re-use objects by copying and pasting...

Dear Munish Brilliant. Thank you very much. (The only thing one has to be careful about is putting a CLEAR EVENTS into the 'Exit' button of the menu. I got stuck with 'Cannot quit FoxPro' when I first tried it - and of course I had no Command Window to help me solve the problem!) Tony

A trawl through FAQ and the posts reveals that HIDE WINDOW COMMAND (or "Command" - not clear which) should do the trick, or that the window will vanish when you display a form, especially if called from a program. None of this seems to work (except, of course, in a...

I'd like users to be able to spell check some text they've entered (that will eventually be stored in a memo field). I rather hoped that x=SYS(1500,"_MTL_SPELL","_MSYSMENU") might do the trick, but it doesn't. Part of the problem, I suppose, is that by the time one presses...

Hi ramani, Thanks for all this detail. I'm afraid that the problem turned out to be that I'd put a CLEAR EVENTS into the Deactivate method of the form at a time when I was trying *anything*, and I failed to remove it. So, of course, when I activated the message window ........ I'm sorry to...

You're quite right that my app doesn't work properly on its home computer if FoxPro isn't running. So is there anything I can do? I'm not allowed to issue READ EVENTS more than once. It doesn't seem to make any difference whether the button used to close the child screen is Terminate Read or...

(I typed this yesterday, but it seems to have got lost, so I'll try again). Thanks for this: I think it was you who helped me when I was first setting up this kind of project. I've already implemented your suggestions, which is why the system is basically working (I even included a comment that...