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| Dababase Report Generators | 4/12/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: Do you know of any inexpensive REALLY SIMPLE to use database report generator programs? We have ...
A: Bruce, There is no really simple way to convert legacy reports that I know of. Crystal reports has ...
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| Database Report Generators | 4/12/2006 | Rozaldy A. Gutierrez |
Q: Do you know of any inexpensive REALLY SIMPLE to use database report generator programs? We have ...
A: With regards to FoxPro, you may translate your Lotus 123 spreadsheets to dbf format by using append ...
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| Foxpro database | 4/5/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: My 1st question is that, can i transfer the data to the foxpro's database, which is currently ...
A: You can transfer the data to FoxPro using SQL Server's Data Transformation Services (DTS). Data ...
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| Foxpro Database Capacity. | 4/3/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I am Ahmed Abdur Razzak. My Question is how much capacity in Foxpro and Visual Foxpro Database. ...
A: The maximum size is 2GB. You determine size by multiplying rows and field size. So, in theory you ...
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| Active task- or not? | 3/29/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: Well, the Alwaysontop property has affect only within the application. If I create a form with ...
A: Imre, I thought about this some more and I remember Calvin Hsia has a blog that talks about running ...
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| Active task- or not? | 3/27/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: How could I determine if my running program is the active task in Windows XP (accepts keyboard, the ...
A: Imre, I am not sure what you asking. But i think I have it...you have a program that runs ...
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| exporting of data | 3/8/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: Could you tell me how can I export any paradox database files to a spreadsheet using foxpro
A: Dave, You should be able to import Paradox files directly into Excel using open database ...
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| Can i connect all my VB OCX in the foxpro progarm | 2/23/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I have developed some of the OCX in Visiul basic and that are runnigg fine.I want to attached tah ...
A: Raj, Can you give me more information. What version of VFP are you running. What errors are you ...
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| FoxPro Report | 2/17/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I have a report in FoxPro 9. My report is based on a query that is returning about 400 records. It ...
A: Hey John, It sounds like a grouping issue. Run your SQL statement and call the function from the ...
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| Use of CDX File | 1/24/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I have written the following lines in a .prg file : use \\192.168.0.1\jobs\joblist.dbf but; it shows ...
A: Girish, Make a second copy of the table on your local drive. Rebuild the index on the 2nd copy and ...
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| Use of CDX File | 1/20/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I have written the following lines in a .prg file : use \\192.168.0.1\jobs\joblist.dbf but; it shows ...
A: Girish, What version of foxpro are you running? Try opening the table without the index and setting ...
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| Ref: databases | 1/15/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: Good day, Can you tell me: 1. What is involved in building a database. 2. Are there online services ...
A: Sunil, You should contact Rick Strahl. Rick was been running VFP as web backends for many years. ...
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| CROSSTAB QUERY | 1/12/2006 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I have a application the uses a crosstab query , when I make it into a executable and try to run it ...
A: The (_genxtab) variable is unavailabe at runtime. You have to call it using the vfpxtab.prg file in ...
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| Can I use Foxpro 8 for Pic projects? | 12/24/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I'm a beginner in VFP8 and microcontroller(PIC16F84), I would like to make an application that will ...
A: What type of engine are you trying to control? Is there an SDK or OCX available from the ...
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| About foxpro for dos | 12/8/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: What is the use of 'PICTURE' data type in foxpro for MS-DOS and why it is always inactive?How we can ...
A: Sahil, The format of the data entry @ ... GET edit region for data entry such as a telephone number ...
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| About foxpro for dos | 12/5/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: How to display a BMP image in screens created in foxpro 2.6 for MS-DOS?
A: Sahil, Bitmap-based images are made of pixels in a grid formation. Each pixel or "bit" in the image ...
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| question marks from Excel > VFP | 11/3/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: When an Excel spreadsheet has apostrophe marks in some fields, VFP interprets them as question ...
A: What version of VFP are you using ? What version of Excel? Excel VBA Automation can be hard to use ...
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| Cannot locate the Microsoft Visual FoxPro support library | 10/13/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I'm using VFP9. I had to uninstall and re-install VFP9. Now, when I run a couple of my ...
A: John, First, make sure you have the following files copied to C:\Program Files\Common ...
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| help me in header of dbf files | 8/12/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I have some dbf file that have damaged header and in my program does not recognize as a database ...
A: Mehrzad, Broken headers were a big problem prior to version 5. Luckily, there are many utilities ...
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| Grid vfp 8 | 8/1/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I set regional & language of windows to arabic. because i want to create arabic application in vfp8. ...
A: You have 2 questions. The first question regarding the grid, I am not quite sure about. I found ...
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| Foxpro | 7/30/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: The original program being used stopped functioning. Another directory was located that had another ...
A: Copy the tables over and issue a REINDEX on them. You may need to open the table with an order 0 ...
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| Non-standard Memo Fields | 7/25/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I need to get data from a VFP application that I have. The problem is that it does not use standard ...
A: David, I assume the 2 tables are related by a key. The key is in the first field of the "memo" ...
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| Intellisense in VFP v 8 | 7/8/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: ------------------------- Actually, I don't know that I do want to lose it entirely, just the ...
A: Jay, To avoid having IntelliSense add the "TO" keyword go to menu item: Tools | IntelliSense ...
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| Intellisense in VFP v 8 | 7/7/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: how can I turn it off permanently. The Intellisense manager only turns it off for the current ...
A: There is a lot of power and functionality in the Intellisense function, but if you are certain you ...
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| Displaying parts of a string in bold | 7/1/2005 | Martha Granger |
Q: Greetings, I have a label on a form. I have an array of values from a query that are grouped by ...
A: Add another column to your array, value .T. for bold. Where are you trying to print this ...
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| Oracle using ODP and VFP 7 | 6/29/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: How to connect to Oracle using ODP and Visual FoxPro7? I'm new with Visual FoxPro and I'd like to ...
A: Devair, My experience with Oracle ODP is limited, but I did a little research and found a few pages ...
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| in FOXPRO, how to combine many DBF's of the same structure to one table/query | 6/20/2005 | Martha Granger |
Q: sir, i am learning foxprox (v2.6, for DOS), and i would like to combine 100 or more database (.DBF) ...
A: I will answer if you promise to never call me "sir" again, because I am not a man. Since you have ...
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| dos program in a windows environment | 6/3/2005 | Martha Granger |
Q: My accounting program is set up in dos based Foxpro 2.0. I would like to setup a new computer and ...
A: Foxpro DOS is as compatible with Windows 2000 as it is with Windows 98. I use Windows 2000, and have ...
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| FoxPro Error Message | 5/16/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: There's a database program which was written with Foxpro version 2 or so. It works in windows 98 ...
A: Nii, In 1993 the first distribution kit for FoxPro 2.5 was released. This kit allowed programmers ...
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| Question | 5/2/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: Sir, I am doing "Database Mangaement System" We use the dfd to analiyze the user requirement in ...
A: -- What's your opinion about this methodology. The DFD has many uses, but is best used for ...
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| Question | 4/30/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I have a topic, give me some potential comments on this topic, the topic is, "We have used the ...
A: To answer your question accurately, I would need to know how exactly you are using DFDs and what ...
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| Main Window | 4/23/2005 | Martha Granger |
Q: I am using my own window as a main window in my application and it works OK, But I would like to use ...
A: You can put browses right into your code. What reports are you talking about? If you need commands ...
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| Main Window | 4/19/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: Carla I understood, but doing this, can I use in my own window: Reports, and the browse Command, ...
A: Erwin, Your browse and report may be trying to place themselves in the screen. Try defining the ...
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| Main Window | 4/18/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I would like to know how to use my own window as a main window in my application. besides, I donīt ...
A: To handle the problem make a change to your configuration text file. Visual FoxPro uses the text ...
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| page # on report | 3/30/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I am using VPF 7.0 on windows XP pro. I have a problem getting the page number to print. I am ...
A: Kent, I tried to duplicate your problem and couldn't. Without having the files, I can only give you ...
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| Picture extraction | 3/29/2005 | Martha Granger |
Q: I have a table named picture (picture.dbf & picture.fpt). I has two fields: Id Character 10, Pic ...
A: Well, I haven't worked much with general fields, so I checked on what commands are available for ...
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| Run app in web browser | 3/24/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I have a payroll application that I developed in Visual Foxrpo. Please how do I make this ...
A: You may have to make some changes to your project. You will need an Active Document. An Active ...
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| Visual Foxpro Academic version | 3/17/2005 | Carla Fair-Wright |
Q: I bought a copy of Foxpro on EBay and it arrived - printed "Academic version Not for Commercial ...
A: Academic version software is sold to students and teachers via a college bookstore or some other ...
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| Printing in Fox pro 2.6 OS XP | 3/17/2005 | Martha Granger |
Q: Martha : Currently we have an application in fox pro 2.6a. We are printing in a matrix printer, but ...
A: FOXPROW causes lots of GPFs, and they don't make sense and can be hard to track down. Sometimes it ...
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| data base | 3/11/2005 | Martha Granger |
Q: My company is a manufacturing company and currently is running the computer system which is known as ...
A: The first thing to do is to browse the database(s) using Foxpro's interactive command system to ...
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