Paradox 7 Running on XP Professional

[Rickinrsm]

Hi all . . .

New computer running ZP Professional. Whops. XP Professional. Ha!

Paradox7 on Drive C:\
All data and folders including PRIVATE and WORKING are on drive D:\ drive as on my old computer.

Paradox 7 does not show the buttons on the open windows. ie, Trying to set the new working directory the Oaky button shows the border of the button only. It won't let me click it.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks . . .

Rick ~ Access Newbie

 

[TonyMcGuire]

You have to set Compatibility Mode in the icon that starts Paradox.

That, or I believe there is an apcompat.exe on some versions of Windows.

Should give you back your buttons immediately.

Tony McGuire

http://www.thedbcommunity.com

"It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities.

 

[Rickinrsm]

Okay Tony,

Command Line parameters are (I think?):

-p = Start with specified PRIVATE directory other than the one in the Registry.

-w = Starts with specified WORKING directory other than the one listed in the REGISTRY .

Which one do I use, and/or should I use both?

This is what my Paradox Icon entry is:
"C:\Program Files\Borland\Paradox\PDXWIN32.EXE"

would it end like . . . PDXWIN32.EXE -w -p ?

Thanks much Tony

Rick ~ Access Newbie

 

[Rickinrsm]

Tony . . .

I have been able to get the directories set as I needed. To be honest I'm not really sure how.

Here is a real problem. On all of the Paradox windows that ask for "Cancel" "Okay", etc none of these buttons work and you can't see the button label, just the outline of the button.

I searched for that Windows file that you suggested but it is not located on my hard drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks . . .

Rick ~ Access Newbie

 

[TonyMcGuire]

Yes.

Set the compatibility in the icon that starts Paradox.

Try it; you'll like it.



Tony McGuire

http://www.thedbcommunity.com

"It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities.

 

[Rickinrsm]

Tony I added the -p -w at the end of the icon path but I can't see any difference.

I've succeeded in setting the new working directory before I added the -p -w commands.

The Buttons still do not function and the button labels are not visible at all.

I created a query and ran it. But when O go to delete it I can't as none of the buttons function and I have to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and end it with the task manager. Yuk!

Any ideas?




Rick ~ Access Newbie

 

[TonyMcGuire]

Any ideas?

Yes.


READ MY POSTS.


Set the COMPATIBILITY option in the ICON that starts PARADOX.

Tony McGuire

http://www.thedbcommunity.com

"It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities.

 

[hcts]

If you right click on the paradox 7 icon and choose properties you should get several tabs, General;Shortcut;Compatablilty. Choose Compatability and review the options there. You can tell it to run in compatability mode for Windows 98 and be fine.

Hope this helps,

James D. Howard

BTW you can lead them to water but you can't get them to drink.

 

[Rickinrsm]

Thanks James and Tony . . .

What I did was install Paradox 8. Whalla, all of the buttons appear and function normally.

In Paradox 7 I remember a tool bar setting which was Global.
It doesn't seem to available in version 8.

I likes having the view table, forms, query, sql, etc. icons available on the toolbar all of the time.

Is that possoble in Paradox 8?

Thanks . . . Rick