plepkowski
Programmer
I'm a very old, retired, CCOBOL and ASSEMBLY programmer with some experience with dBase and FoxPro from the command window. A charity has asked me to get an old FoxPro for DOS program working on a donated used computer which contains VFP6.0. I have gone over the data files and they seem to be OK. The indexes have been converted to CDX type and that works. The old DOS program worked by relying on append and browse commands which all work. The needed reports were all hard coded with space() to fill lines nicely and they work.
The only thing that doesn't work is the old character screen menu. It had 10 @SAY and 10 @GET commands and a READ. Then it routed execution to .PRG files with a DO CASE ... ENDCASE loop. How do I generate a nice looking windows menu which responds to the mouse and hot keys using the menu generator (CREATE MENU). I can't figure out where the calls to the procedures (.PRGs) have to go into the properties of each menu pad or how to make a key hot. The help file is not much help. OOP is not something we used in the COBOL world.
Anybody got a good simple book that will tell me how to make a menu work.
Paul
The only thing that doesn't work is the old character screen menu. It had 10 @SAY and 10 @GET commands and a READ. Then it routed execution to .PRG files with a DO CASE ... ENDCASE loop. How do I generate a nice looking windows menu which responds to the mouse and hot keys using the menu generator (CREATE MENU). I can't figure out where the calls to the procedures (.PRGs) have to go into the properties of each menu pad or how to make a key hot. The help file is not much help. OOP is not something we used in the COBOL world.
Anybody got a good simple book that will tell me how to make a menu work.
Paul