Command appearing in Command Window

[Toman]

Hi.

I have remembered that in FoxPro 2.6 days, when someone was creating command by means of some Designer or Wizard (don't remember how we called it at that time), appropriate command was then shown in Command window to be copied into the program if needed.
Let's say:

INDEX ON MyField TAG tmp UNIQUE

was shown when setting index via MainMenu -> Database -> Setup
It still works (VFP 7) with SET RELATION created in Data session window, but not in others cases.
Does this feature still exist in VFP 8, 9. If so, must it be switched on and how.
Or was it all replaced with IntelliSense functionality.

Thanks Tom.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Hi Tom,

In general, this still works (in all versions). In fact, as far as I know, there's no way of switching it off.

In particular, when you open a design tool or a table, the command is correctly echoed. For example, when you open a form in the form designer from the main menu or the project, you see MODIFY FORM ... in the command window. Similarly if you open or browse a table from the data session window.

However, it doesn't work from inside a design tool. So, setting an index from within the table designer does not echo. As far as I can remember, this has always been the case.

Mike


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[Toman]

Mike,

I have revitalised my old Foxpro just to see, how it was with echoing those days. And I think that echoing was active even from within the table designer.

But it means absolutely nothing. I can live without it. It was only a moment when I was playing with indexes and it would be nice to copy index command instead of writing it down.

Thank you for your reply Mike
Tom.

 

[Toman]

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