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Filip, Just a reminder. Don't forget to add one to the field length if you need to allow a negative number. For example -99.9 could overflow a N(4,1) field. Should be N(5,1). Steve

None of the above. Many years ago I taught Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, Assembly & RPG but never actually used them. My method was to stay a chapter (or 2?) ahead of the class. :geek:

Chris, I can seee why Mandy might want to call the form that way - but ONLY if there is data in the "opening" form which is needed in the next form. Of course, as you say, there are better ways of doing it. Steve

Thank you, Mike. I've stared at the Favorites tab a thousand times, but never used it. No more. [dazed] Steve

There's VFP and there's everyone else. When I hear the term "database" used by a non-VFP or on the news, I have no way of knowing if they really mean a "table" (as in VFP) or a collection (container) of tables - they almost never specify (nor does it usually matter). So I don't see that...

Interesting. I don't recall the calculator. I built a Heathkit H89 PC & brought it to Korea with me. There were only 2 of us with a pc in Korea in the military. Soon realized I could do NOTHING with it without an operating system. So I bought HDOS and took the Microsoft Basic course by...

The reason you (and everyone else) never heard of this is because I made it up. It came from my way-back brain programming in Basic where each line was numbered. If anyone (besides me) remembers that, they're showing their age. [pc] Steve

Hi Dronner, I can empathize with your situation here based on personal experience. I was programming in Foxpro 2.x, a by-the numbers app. I was told Visual Focpro would take 6 months to learn. Well, it was far less than that before I could at least complete a simple project, with the help of...

Hi Joe, You say the 3 prg's are short. I know this makes no logical sense, but maybe recreate/retype them to replace the originals. I suggest this because on rare occasions, (maybe 2 in several years) I have had to retype a perfectly good statement to avoid a compilation error. Just a wild...

Perhaps mark some suspects "Exclude"?? I know you have many many files, but perhaps they can be marked so in the pjx file. Don't know, just a guess. Steve

A wild guess: Seems to me a last ditch effort in the worst case might be VFP itself or even the operating system, depending on when they were last installed. Were they all installed recently from the same source (possibly defective?) Steve

Mandy, Personally, I think the DBF method Chris describes is the best, safest, most reliable method. Some of my apps require tens of values to be passed to one of maybe 6 forms. For example my Config.dbf has only a single record with one field for each value (occasionally over 50) to be saved...

See my first post in this thread for a step-by-step. Ok? Steve

Mandy, To summarize (and avoid confusion), there are MANY approaches to do what you want to achieve. Here are some: 1. Return a value from DO FORM Xx TO Yy (parse if several values) 2. Put the return in a dbf accesssible to other forms (olr other apps as Chris mentioned) 3. Put the return in an...

Mandy, I think Chris & Mike's advice is exactly what you need. But it seems to me your last post asked the same question. Let me try a step-by-step approach in a differ5ent way, which might help. 1. To trigger the appearance of form2 from form1, do it with DO Form2 TO myResult 2. In form2's...

Not at all, Chris! Sorry if you took it that way. Of course I know there is more than one way to connect to a server. Mine was a small example. Didn't read Jay's post close enough. Anyway, I hope it might have helped somebody somewhere. P.S. My example had an error which I thought I corrected...

Obviously you imply with that snarky comment that I don't understand what he said nor do I understand anything about servers. I have nowhere near your knowledge level on that subject. BTW, I wasn't trying to answer his question in detail as you did. I was only trying to offer a small example...

Yes, some do expect that and shouldn't. Personally, code examples have been how I have learn the best. My first language (Microsoft Basic) was loaded with them, at least til I ran into dBASE II (am I showing my age?) [bigglasses] Steve

B.James, After looking at your table, it seems to me you could make a list of ALL values you believe should be in the Acd field. Then index Master.dbf on the Acd field, loop through your list of values & confirm each one exists in Master.dbf or if not, add it to the no-find list. Use SEEK, or...

Wrong. The return value is a numeric file handle, not a logic variable. A positive number is a successful connection. Steve