Visual FoxPro
Recent update: 2008-3-21

Form Feed Character

146 byte By FoxProg9 at 2008-3-7
Hello Experts: I am using FPUTS to write text to a file. At the end of each page I need to insert Form Feed Character. How can I do this?

using vars in a thisform. statment

638 byte By theblackknight at 2008-3-6
Hello again, I have a problem using a variable in a thisform. statment. I tried it using the following code: IF v_sichtbar < 10 then DO WHILE v_sichtbar < 11 v_button = "button0"+ALLTRIM(STR(v_sichtbar)) v_label = "label"+ALLTRIM(STR(v_sichtbar)) thisform.v_button.visible = .F. ...

how to use the sql-left join ?

694 byte By jetsu at 2008-3-5
this sql is okSELECT NA.*, DV.YN_CODE, NA1.NA_COMPANY AS NA_1STNAME,NA.AW_LEVEL,SPACE(30) AS MIG_OFFICE,NT.NT_TYPE,AN.AN_TYPE,AN.AN_WRKRID FROM TmpCurs_AllDonors2 NA LEFT OUTER JOIN TmpCurs_AllDonors3 DV ON DV.CM_ID = NA.CM_ID LEFT OUTER JOIN NAME NA1 ON NA.NA_COID1ST = NA1.NA_ID LEFT OUTER ...

picturebutton in Foxpro 8 and 9

556 byte By theblackknight at 2008-3-3
Hi there, I have a maybe dumb question. I would like to use a graphic as a button with text on it that i can change. This is easy with the button object but on that i am not able to place the text over the graphic, showing only the graphic with the text on it. Text cut just be placed obove, ...

Laser Printer Problem with VFP

445 byte By SyezZishanKalam at 2008-3-1
HI!I designed a Software in VFP 6 & also developed Some Reports.Problem is when i use Printer Like Epson Dot Matrix & other epson series it works fine but when i install Laser printer & want to use, then my software even System hang.I have to do restart my system. I wanna use any ...

AutoHideScrollbar Property.

338 byte By JitendraShahani at 2008-2-28
http://www.code-magazine.com/focus/article.aspx?quickid=0404052&page=2 Hello Guys, While reading the above mentioned article i came across a problem. The article talks about the AutoHideScrollbar Property Value to be 2, but i have only two options in this property(0 & 1). Is there ...

VFP6-Did anyone experience this problem (with ActiveX Ctrl)?

2894 byte By kanguru at 2008-2-27
hello guys, I post here my problem and hope that there will be certain VFP expert to help. The problem was that when i call the MouseDown event from an OleListView control (this ole is inserted in FORM1). This MouseDown event will show a shortcut menu (1st shortcut). A Command in the 1st ...

Any better source code to search for file/folder

2388 byte By kanguru at 2008-2-26
hi all,I've just finished a small program to search some filetype on my harddisk. The code run very well but it seems to me that it 's a bit too.... lenghy. Is there anyway else to search file without having to use ADIR function?*//CODE? SearchFile("D:","mp3") &&This will show the ...

pos in visual foxpro

274 byte By Onelle at 2008-2-26
I planned to develop POS in Visual Foxpro, How can I integrate barcode scanner and cash register with the system. I mean How can I control the cash register to open/close.. and barcode also how can i capture the result of the barcode... Thanks in advance.. Im just a begnner

exe is not a Visual Foxpro .Exe file

6135 byte By TariqMehmood at 2008-2-25
Dear Experts Now, this time I am facing the greatest problem of my life about vfp and my future. For the last about three years all of my softwares were runing properly but unfortunately from the last month I am facing these error messages 1- D:\ginning\accounts.exe is not a Visual ...

Thank you Microsoft

317 byte By TerryMontgomery at 2008-2-24
I just wanted to say thank you to microsoft for giving us this forum. I know there are a lot of great forums, but this gives us a chance to be a fly on the back of the couch in the living room at microsoft...This may well become my primary forum to turn to now when I have some real questions to ...

sys(2015) Conversion back to System Date Time

946 byte By TerryMontgomery at 2008-2-23
I'm working on a project to do some analysis, and difference between versions of ClassLibraries (VCX/VCT), Screens (SCX/SCT), Projects (PJX/PJT), Etc...I'm looking at the Uniqueid field which is a sys(2015) type of value, which is based on a given system date time. I've seen an article that ...

How to check if an Array exists?

401 byte By FoxProg9 at 2008-2-22
Select * from myTable where isnull(myTable.keyField) = .f. into array myArrayif alen(myArray) > 0** Loop through array and Do processingend ifIn a situation where records selected by the query are 0 then the array is not created and thus the next statement gives an error. How can I check if ...

VFP8.0 Chaining Reports

1491 byte By ed_bytes at 2008-2-22
I have an app that used to run correctly. A few weeks ago I got hijacked and haven't been able to configure the reports correctly again. Here's the scenario:I have an HP LJ 9000 which has the ability to stack and staple and has four paper sources. The app gathers data and then prints a series ...

Accessing VFP9.0 Stored procedures with .NET

3672 byte By Frederyk at 2008-2-21
I've been fighting an almost epic battle these last few days with Foxpro, to try to access its Stored Procedures with ADO.NET.Here is my code: Dim conn As String = "Data Source=Q:\network\Gestion\stage.dbc;Provider='VFPOLEDB.1';password='';user id=''" Dim OleDbConnection2 As ...

Use ADIR to get specific files from a folder

561 byte By FoxProg9 at 2008-2-20
Chdir(SOURCE_FILE_DIR)numfiles=Adir(filearry)I know you get files that have a specific extension like this: Adir(filearry, '*.TXT')BUT can you use a negative condition with Adir?Example: get files from a folder where the extension is not .txt or ...

Problem Installing VFP 9.0

470 byte By BobWalter at 2008-2-19
When I try to install VFP 9.0 by clicking the link on the auto run page that appears when you insert the disk, I get the message "Please go to the control panel and add or configure windows components"If I run from the add programs in the control panel I get the setup screen and click ...

Vfp 9.0 Report Writer.

1609 byte By JitendraShahani at 2008-2-18
Hello Guys Vfp9 overall is very overwhelming for guys like me who have started very small with FoxPro 2.0 for DOS. Learning VFP 5 (on my own) with no decent books and absolutely no training available and getting all these releases and not all that time to get acquainted is really difficult. One ...

Excel Automation - Charts.

2311 byte By JitendraShahani at 2008-2-17
Hello Guys The code below works fine (complete code). The problem is, how can one set the number of rows in the following lines. These two lines sets the chart data parameters. Although one can use "oSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count" but how to encorporate it in the code. Please complete the ...

FoxPro 9 Multiple Detail Band Issue

3413 byte By FoxProg9 at 2008-2-16
Report has 3 tables: (Customer, Orders1, Orders2) - Customers Main Table (Group 1- Customer.pkey) - Detail Band 1: Show all orders placed by customer (Group 2 order.pkey) Sample Report appears like this: Customer 1 Order1 Date1 Apples 2 Order2 Date1 Oranges 3 Order3 Date2 Apples 4 Order4 ...

does sqlserver have the funtion as same as recno() of vfp?

137 byte By jetsu at 2008-2-15
if not,how can i get the unique numbe of each record? for example in vfp i can do like this select *,recno() from tablename

CA

408 byte By JitendraShahani at 2008-2-15
Hello Guys Can someone redirect me to a page where i could find a simple sample of CA (Native) or if one could send me an email. Please don't use the ca class if you would send me an email. The problem is when i use an access database, it works fine but when i use a vfp database, it shows me ...

define window

199 byte By Madix_t at 2008-2-15
How could we show a define window into a top level form, where-in screen visible is set to FALSE? Because I try it, and it doesn't show-up, maybe i got wrong in coding. Thanks for any help Amado

Problem while installing foxpro 9

282 byte By kau at 2008-2-15
Hello, When I run setup.exe for Visual FoxPro 9.0, welcome screen is displayed with two links activated; prerequisites and Visual FoxPro. When I click either on these, setup program hangs and nothing happens. This issue is valid also for Visual FoxPro 8.0. Any ideas? Thanks

can i just use sql to get this?

303 byte By jetsu at 2008-2-15
date transfer20050101 200.00 20050103 -100.00 20050530 95.30 ... SQL to get: date transfer balance 20050101 200.00 200.00 20050103 -100.00 100.00 20050530 95.30 ...

i can't use movelast in ado

872 byte By jetsu at 2008-2-14
Hi guys i can use ado connect to local .dbf and sql server and get the data from it.but i found i can't use movepriveous,movelast function of ado object and also i can't get the recordcount ,any idea?o=CREATEOBJECT("adodb.connection")o.ConnectionString="Provider=VFPOLEDB.1;Data ...

can i use SQL sort by special expression?

252 byte By jetsu at 2008-2-14
my user want the data is sort by the field's content. the content is "I","E","C","A" and BLANK if just ascending and desc ,it's easy. but now they want sort by this sequence "I","C","E","A" then blank so how can i do it? thank you

Noob question

493 byte By tanglereid at 2008-2-13
Technically I don't even fall into the noob category. I have been tasked with using foxpro for a project at work. I have zero experience with vfp. The version we have is 9. The only books I can find detail what is new for version 9. is there a book out there for the absolute beginner that is ...

Installshield install problem V9.0

358 byte By DonHiggins at 2008-2-13
My installshield will not install properly, it hangs up and sends a message that looks like this. I am on a single user system, no networks."A network error has occured while reading the file (super long file name here) Foxpro Express limited edition .msi"I have v 7, 8, and 9 on the computer.Do ...

Path settings in Environment Manager

137 byte By DonHiggins at 2008-2-12
I cannot get foxpro to save the path settings in the Environment Manager, every time I exit out and return the path is gone. Any ideas?

VFP Automated Test Harness aatest.app

1029 byte By TerryMontgomery at 2008-2-11
I'm trying to get us where we can use the Automated Testing Harness with our products. We're having some difficulty in being able to work it with ActiveX controls such as the listview, toolbar, statusbar etc.I've narrowed the problem down to at least being likely in the GetContainerForm ...

Trap F10 in the KeyPress()

510 byte By CraigMcGuff at 2008-2-10
Is there any way I can trap for an F10 in a keypress event? We have a legacy app which is using ON KEY LABEL to capture an F10 key press. I can't trap this in the KeyPress, I assume becasue it has the same key code as ALT which KeyPress can't cope with. Changing from F10 to another key is not ...

Menu Pad Name Errors VFP80 - VFP90

986 byte By JLB4536 at 2008-2-10
Has anyone had any errors migrating the VFP80 menus to VFP90? I have two applications where the strangest errors have occurred. I use the generated menu pad names in my application to call various menu options. This had always worked fine on previous versions. I am developing in XP.In VFP90, on ...

topmost window

653 byte By Madix_t at 2008-2-8
Good day to everyone...My problem is about the active mainform of my application which is top level form. All settings has already been set, compiled with no errors and deployed at the workstation. This small VFP program is just to warn me at the server if a certain workstation is already ...

How can I use a stored procedure in my asp.net app

969 byte By Pepo at 2008-2-8
I'm trying to execute a stored procedure in my webform, I tried the next code: OleDbCommand cmdtemp;OleDbConnection conn;conn = new OleDbConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["strConnection"].ToString());cmdtemp = new OleDbCommand("storeProc_1",conn); cmdtemp.CommandType = ...

Launching Adobe Reader Programatically

215 byte By JLB4536 at 2008-2-7
Is there a way to launch Adobe Reader with a file name from within VFP90? I want my users to be able to print PDF files without having to search for the files - the search would be done through the GUI. Thank you,

how can i get the current active control's name in a form?

18 byte By jetsu at 2008-2-7
thank you Jet

Preview Toolbar not enabled in EXE

3928 byte By WEPHenn at 2008-2-7
The Preview Toolbar in VFP9 is not enabled when a report is generated to Preview from a compiled EXE. _reportbehavior is set to 90. The 90 preveiw toolbar is displayedThe application runs from a main form (modeless, as Top Level Form). Displays all reports to a preview form that is is either ...

Grid

154 byte By JitendraShahani at 2008-2-7
How can we get those spaces which comes before and after the text in the grid column. You can see it in the browse form of data explorer. Thanks Guys

Create a Directory

130 byte By Nora at 2008-2-6
How can i create a directory when the app begins but validating if the directory exists avoiding an error code? thanks a lot!

2 more questions (VFP8)

485 byte By PC-Gram at 2008-2-6
(1) I've made and deployed a simple app. with its own helpfile, but when deployed, nothing happens when I press F1. (It is not, that the app cannot locate the helpfile. If I rename it, I get an error when starting the program.). Any suggestions?(2) The other problem is, that about one in every ...

Bulky package

267 byte By PC-Gram at 2008-2-5
My app takes up less than 0.5 MB and the required ressoucefiles (vfp8t.dll & vfp8renu.dll) take up 4.8 MB and yet the setup.exe created by Installshield Xpress is more tha 10.5 MB large. Any suggestions to how I can reduce the size of my distribution setup file ?

sending email from VFP through MS Outlook

1295 byte By glenna at 2008-2-5
We have the following code for sending email to Outlook. The email gets sent, but the font size is always 36 px or 36 pt (we tried both). None of the <cr><lf> show up. The email is one big paragraph. Can anyone help? Here is the code: LOCAL loApp, loEmailItem, cHex lnsize = '"' ...

error registrated COM object as MULTI-THREADED COM SERVER DLL

256 byte By a_subscriber at 2008-2-4
Hi! on Visual FoxPro 6.0 I created COM object (my_com.dll) as MULTI-THREADED COM SERVER DLL. but when I try registrated COM object I got the error regsvr32 my_com.dll "DllRegisterServer in my_com.dll failed. Return Code was: 0x80004005" Why?

about print

600 byte By octav at 2008-2-4
hello. i'm just a beginner and i'll need help to can continue my project in Fox Pro v2.5. i don't know why my print work so hard. i set in program ? char(18) and i must wait almoust 20 seconds to print my page and write on my page what i need and after that the print will stop and my page ...

object execel, word with vfoxpro

233 byte By hebert at 2008-2-4
where I can find a manual of extrinsicos objects of excel and Word (.add, font.value, .HorizontalAlignment, .Font.size , etc, etc )to be used from Vfoxpro urgent. how set a cell in excel to numeric format? grazie

Modifying a MPR file

343 byte By Nora at 2008-2-4
Hi, I need help, I have to modifiy a VFP 6.0 application and everytime I edit the MPR file I lose my changes, What I do is open the file, then I change some captions, then I compile the file and that's all. When I build the exe file, all my changes disappeared. What am I doing wrong? Could you ...

can i use the free table in the cursoradapter?

47 byte By jetsu at 2008-2-3
i found i can't use free table for CA. Jet

help~!

236 byte By jetsu at 2008-2-3
Hi everyine i want to learn about cursoradapter class. for instance ,how do i can browse, modify, add, deleted, restore data into table by using CA.then could you tell where i can find the materials of CA.;=) thank you Jet

I am facing a strage problem in VFP 8.0 with Error()

489 byte By Uday at 2008-2-2
Hi there, I am converting old dos program into foxpro 8.0.I am facing problem with below statement.On error lError = Error() the code excuting and throws to error, but I am not getting error number. It is giving always 0. Message() is giving correct error description, I verified in debug ...