Recent content by bfwriter

Many thanks to all for the help here.. especially to Chriss whose simplified advice clarified for me a misconception that I've carried since forever, namely that, as used in FoxPro, a Form is NOT synonymous with a Program. It's that that lead me astray. I think that error stems from my earliest...

Thanks for your comments, Mike and Chris. I'm sorry not to have clearer on my CANCEL problem. I expect a CANCEL command to cease processing of a Form and return to the IDE and Command Window for visual editing. I usually add a CANCEL command button to forms when they are new, during the months...

Hi Guys, I'm an experienced non-professional FoxPro user for over 25 years. And here's a real head scratcher. I just now started a quickie construction of a simple form to display a list of values... of the kind I've done zillions of time in the past. And I've run into this weird problem... The...

Problem solved! Realizing that the PJX had acquired (carelessly) a small attic-full of obsolete forms that hadn't been removed from the project, I decided to reverse the process, and to rebuild the project starting from the main form only, then to add each component one-by-one, recompiling as I...

Many many thanks to you fellas who've looked at this problem for me. There are several good suggestions, and it will take me some time to go through them all. Some quick feedback for now: ATLOPES: At your suggestion I checked out he Tools>Code References. No joy there. Offender not found. But...

Hello friends, I've got a dilemma with an "outlaw" error message that's preventing me from building an APP file for a form application that also runs several sub-forms. The miscreant error message (attached) blames a supposedly invalid file that doesn't exist (and never could have existed)...

Many thanks for your response, and especially for your patience, Olaf. And my apologies for the confusion. My statement that... ...the "file:///" prefix (for local calls) is OK in a RichText Editor, which is indeed what I'm using here... is worded misleadingly. I meant that I regularly use...

Many thanks to all--MikeG, MikeL, and Olaf. MGagnon's suggestion won't work for me, for the reason that MLewis identified. (A click anywhere in the edit field will trigger the external call; which must remain unique to the "link" word/phrase, since the edit box, by its nature, expects clicks...

Hello friends and pros, Is there a means in my VFP 9 to embed a link in a text field (in this case a VFP Edit Box or an RTF Edit Box)--to open a file that's resident in the path of the LAN (i.e., not a hyperlink to the web)? For example, the text in the field might show "[Blah, blah, blah...]...

I just upgraded my monitor to a widescreen with 1920 x 1080 resolution; but despite numerous code and property adjustments the _SCREEN.width and .height properties continue to return 1383 x 939. And consequently I can't size images to full screen size. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Actually not "overkill" at all, Dan. (At least for me.) I didn't bother to elaborate before, but my confusion (above) that I couldn't put my Click code into the MouseDown event was due to my unfamiliarity with drag-and-drop apps; and I until now carried the vague notion that Mouse-Down and -Up...

Actually not "overkill" at all, Dan. (At least for me.) I didn't bother to elaborate before, but my confusion (above) about thinking I couldn't put my Click code into the MouseDown event was due to my unfamiliarity with drag-and-drop apps; and I carried the vague notion that Mouse-Down and -Up...

Many thanks, Olaf. That's great. Works like a charm. I much appreciate your help. Will

Sorry for the newbie question... Is there a function to detect whether a Click event is Shift+Click, Ctrl+Click, Alt+Click, or (plain) Click? I am aware that the MouseDown event provides that status natively, but don't see how to pass that status to the Click event to be used in a DO CASE...

Hello friends, Can anyone fill me in on the general principle involved in the following code failure (so I don't lose a lot of hair-pulling time trying to figure it out, as I did on this one)? The following code fails to compile, giving an error message: "Command contains unrecognized...