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Does anyone here have any experience of Grid.JS. This is a JavaScript grid that supports sortable columns and global search. I am thinking of using it in my next application, but I am a little worried about gaps in the documentation, and also that they don't appear to have an active support...

A VFP developer recently complained to me about the difficulty of finding certain pages in the VFP Help file. There were a number of topics that he frequently needed to consult, but could never remember what to search for, or where to find them in the index tree. Even when he could remember, he...

I am trying to use the "tagged formatting" feature in FoxyPreviewer. According to the docs, this allows you to apply some basic formatting (like bold and italic) to individual parts of a field. To do this, you place <TF> in the field's user data, then surround the relevant text with HTML tags...

I feel a bit embarrassed posting this, but I have been staring at it for hours and I can't see what I am doing wrong. What I am trying to achieve To create a table and to populate it with certain character data. What I have got so far The following is the minimum code needed to demonstrate...

In thread184-1826292, Chris proposed an interesting idea, but it was one that required a certain method to be present in every object based on every VFP base class. The trouble is, as Chirs pointed out: "I can't write a parent class of which both a container and a textbox (and a listbox...

I haven't used Microsoft Office much lately and am not up to date with the latest versions or licensing issues. But I am occasionally asked to give tuition to new users. I'd like to check that my understanding on certain points is correct. I'd be grateful if you could confirm or otherwise the...

This might be more of a DOS question than Windows, but I'll ask here first. When performing certain maintenance tasks, I need to close all the programs currently running on the system. It seems that the DOS taskkill command will be suitable for this. So I have created a batch file as follows...

When you want to explain a big chunk of code to someone, it's often helpful to add line numbers. The number don't form part of the executable code, of course, but they can be useful for pointing out particular lines. You can see an example in thread184-1819595, in the post date-stamped "2 Dec...

Some years ago, I wrote a little function that strips invalid characters from filenames. Why would you need to do that? You might need the user to specify the name of an output file. Or you might want to generate a filename from some other string, such as a customer or product name. In both...

Isn't it funny. However well you think you know a product such as VFP, there are always hidden facts lurking in its depths that you either never knew about, or you once knew but have long since forgotten. I came across this recently when I was asked to create a report that would print all the...

Apoligies if this is not the correct forum for this question. I am looking for a way to force a Javascript file in visitors' browser caches to be refreshed. I have a site that contains many HTML pages, which is updated frequently. It has a small number of regular visitors. I understand the...

I was interested in Griff's offering in thread184-1817870. I'm constantly finding a need for this sort of date-manipulation function. With that in mind, I decided to resurrect one that I wrote several years ago, which determines the Nth occurrence of a given weekday (e.g. the 1st Monday or the...

When posting messages in the forum, it is very common to include snippets of program code - see example, below. (Note: the actual code I'm showing here is not important. The point I want to make concerns the appearance of the code. I chose this snippet at random from another thread, and no...

I just purchased a lamp-holder for a table lamp to replace one that was broken. These were the instructions that came with it: I am posting this on the chance that you might find it entertaining. I haven't even tried to make sense of it. Mike __________________________________ Mike Lewis...

In thread184-1813633, Mike Yearwood asked why some of his posts have been deleted. Since this question might be of wider interest, I thought I would have a go at answering it. (Note that what follows is just my personal opinion; I don't have any inside knowledge about this.) Broadly-speaking...

Over in thread184-1813451, we fount that a particular report problem arose because the report had the "Printer Environment" setting ticked (in the Report menu). This is usually undesirable. So the question arose of whether there was some automatic way of checking for this. With that in mind, I...

There seems to be a bit of a craze at the moment for Wordle. Has anyone here tried it yet? Here is the link. It's very simple. You just have to guess a five-letter word, in a maximum of six attempts. After each attempt, it tells you which letters in your guess also appear in the target word...

Over in thread184-1813091, I mentioned that I thought the BROWSE command had an optional NOFOLLOW clause. But I couldn't find any mention of it in the Help or anywhere else. I remembered the clause from dBASE (or it might have been Foxbase), but I wasn't sure of the details. As far as I...

There was a thread here last week about the behaviour of SCAN loops - in particular, certain traps that developers might fall into. The entire thread was removed by Tek Tips management because of offensive language by the OP. Despite that, the thread did contain some useful points, and I...

OK, I've gone as far as I can with my Trackword-solving program. (And thanks to all those who came up with their own programs or contributed ideas.) So now I thought I would give you a trackword or two to actually solve. The aim here is not to discuss automated ways of solving it. It is simply...