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Hi Mike and Olaf. Thanks for the information. As I said I will probably just install a new system disk in this old box. It's old but it's an I7. I've checked the disks with the slow scan under the Western Digital test software and it seems to be OK, but the disks are 6 years old and probably...

Say I've got a form with a bunch of fields, a cancel button, and an Accept button, and it was written by someone who is not available. When does the form's data get written to the disk. I need to add new data validity checks before writing to disk.

I'm trying to address 3000 envelopes from a Foxpro .dbf file for a charity. I have an envelope design with the return address, a grphic logo, and a US Postal Service non profit imprint in a text box. I can export records from the .dbf to either a .csv file or an excell file. The machine is a...

OK, I think I've got it! Thanks Mike and Dan. If I'd been doing this job under CICS with DB2 handling the data it would have taken about 20 minutes. I've been playing with the form designer. When I try to use a text box to provide my menu commands I get a weird box with a blue title on the top...

Mike, >Yes, you can compare the buffered values with the original values. When you look at a field in the table, you will see the buffered value. To get the original value, use the OLDVAL() function. Did you mean that when you look at the form you are looking at the buffer? If so, how do you...

Dan, I've been browsing that help file for several days. It is not explicit about when buffering takes place. Does it happen in every form? Can I compare the buffered values to the original field values before actually replacing the field values? Paul

Borislav and Mike, OK, I get it. You don't use the wizards. So, I'll try this with the form builder. When I wrote this for clipper 17 years ago I had to incorporate two fields to show the original date and time of the record and two fields to show the date and time of the most recent edit...

Hi Mike, That article tells me how to add buttons with combo or list boxes. It also says no coding is needed to add a new text box. What I want to do is remove a button from the existing text box with ten buttons. Any ideas? Paul

Thanks Borislav. 1. The Wizard stuck in a Print button. Only the container for all the buttons can be selected. I can't select just that button. 2. OK, got it. 3. TTOC(DATETIME(),1) is a little simpler than the Clipper method of REPLACE ODATE WITH DTOC(DATE()) and then REPLACE OTIME WITH...

I'm trying to use VFP 6 to bring an old Clipper .dbf into a real window application. I generated a form with the Wizard which has command buttons for navigation, find, print, add, edit, and exit. 1. Can I get rid of the Print button? 2. Can I make certain fields read only? 3. Can I insert...

Sorry Craig, it's set default to foo I just ran an interesting experiment. My objective was to start fox and have it treat my development directory as its default. I figured that if I stuck a program named fox.prg in the dev directory and included the one line it would point fox to that...

Craig, The one line program is set directory to <this directory> All it does is start VFP and set the directory to the current development directory. It would not run. It didn't generate any error message. Paul

I just installed VFP9 without disturbing VFP6. My first task is to see if it compiles and runs my older VFP6 programs. In my development directories I usually stick a one line program named FOX.PRG which contains the line SET DIRECTORY TO <this directory>. I clicked it and it loaded VFP9 but...

OK, I've gotten the menu to work, the database is in good shape, and the hand coderd reports are working. Now the only problem I have is the View menu. I left the View submenu in the generated menu, but when the program calls a browse window the usual Browse Menu you get from the command...

Tamar, By the other forum, I assume you mean the old compuserve forum. I say your reply there, thank you. I've been on compuserve since about 1986. The menu generator and its help files are not all that clear to a procedural programmer. Give me big blues ASSEMBLER any old time. Paul

Mike, I never ran into OOP versions of COBOL. I started using COBOL about 1959 when the first version was delivered by big blue. I never used anything that didn't come in a blue box. Paul

I'm a very old, retired, CCOBOL and ASSEMBLY programmer with some experience with dBase and FoxPro from the command window. A charity has asked me to get an old FoxPro for DOS program working on a donated used computer which contains VFP6.0. I have gone over the data files and they seem to be...