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  1. Paul Gibson

    Combobox populated with data from a table

    When it comes to Comboboxes/Drop-down lists so there are so many different ways to set them up and use them. It mostly comes down to preference of how you want your UI to look and operate. Just setting them to directly use the "lookup table" or "data table" or whatever you are basing the...
  2. Paul Gibson

    Windows 11 - any problems noted?

    For us, we've supported our applications on Windows 11 for as long as it's been out and I only know of one issue that appeared to be unique to Windows 11 and that was a laggy OS problem regarding generating a file. This particular issue could have been due to Adobe rather than Windows 11 but...
  3. Paul Gibson

    Help with setting up the report (error message band 1 is too large to fit

    It takes about 5 to 10 minutes to split the details into multiple sections as I described in my previous reply. I split it up across 16 details sections, you could probably get away with only doing 3 or 4 if you wanted to but doing it in much smaller sections means that if you are printing...
  4. Paul Gibson

    Help with setting up the report (error message band 1 is too large to fit

    The error message saying "x is too large to fit" means that the report hasn't been told how to split that section up so it'll never fit on any single page. When the report engine paginates a report it has to work out what bands will fit on the current page, taking into account things like, does...
  5. Paul Gibson

    Naming Convention of Object

    After you ingest the data can you drop into the debugger and analyse the object to check the properties and their names? Reason I ask is that I don't think you can have a property in VFP with a hyphen in it's name, probably for this very reason, that a hyphen in the middle of regular code is...
  6. Paul Gibson

    Strip leading characters from a string

    Left trim does what you need to, as you can provide the alternative string that you are looking to trim/strip, instead of the default (space). You can use LTRIM() twice, first to trim the "FA" from the beginning and then again to strip the x number of "0" after that. Shown below in the sample...

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