Well, I found the culprit. For those who might experience this same problem, here's my solution.
Right before VFP started acting up, I had installed a password manager called Sticky Password. (Pretty good app, by the way.) Anyway, since that was the last major change to my system before...
Image of DBF structure attached.
By "browse mode", I mean using the Browse command in the Command window to view the table. I use both Browse and Browse Last. The problem exists in both.
FWIW, it also occurs whether indexes are used or not. Just Using the table by itself, it still happens.
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All of a sudden, my tables don't allow typing text into fields in Browse mode. If I type in a letter or number, it shows ... but as soon as I type another character or space, the first one disappears. And so on. The weird thing is, some text fields seem to work okay while others don't ... and...
Thanks, Mike. Here's what I'm doing. (Pardon the length of this - want to be complete.)
In a VFP8 table I'm using, there are fields of different types - specifically, numeric, date, character, and memo. The routine I use converts all of these into strings, each stored in a separate memvar...
Hello. I concatenate a number of fields into one string and export to a text file. The text file apparently won't handle lines longer than 256 characters, and inserts a HR/LF at that point in the text file. I can't tell whether that's a default of VFP or something to do with the maximum length...
I'm new to this forum, so please excuse me if this is an elementary question.
I have a date field in a database that sometimes contains data, but sometimes doesn't, depending on the individual record. I index on this date field for one report (in ascending order), and the records with empty...
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