Recent content by ChrisMc

Hi Craig - your point that Bill Gates gets pennies from me when I purchase an upgrade is spurious: he owns the computing world and is worth billions. I've never decried anybody's success but I think it's sad that nobody can compete with MS - if they get too successful, MS simply buys them. I...

Andy - I've had a look at your paper & I'm VERY impressed. An elegant solution and clearly defined. The consensus seems to be that VFP9 is still a good platform so I'll update. When I've absorbed the new features I'll take you up on your offer of the latest version of the code - I'll email...

Hi Guys When I started it was Fox Software and Foxplus, faster than anything on the market with brilliant support. When MS bought the company I kept up with upgrades but my last major project was in VB and I stopped upgrading VFP. Now a pure database project is rearing its head so I don't...

I've got VFP 6 SP3 and I'm fed up giving Bill Gates money! Is it worth an update to the latest version (9 I think) or is there a better database program out there?

It's easy to do to a certain point - cURL = 'chris@domain.co.uk' cSubj = 'This%20is%20the%20subject' Note that in the subject the following have got to be translated: Space ( ) %20 Comma (,) %2C Question mark (?) %3F Period (.) %2E...

You can do it! I have a project written in FPW2.6a with help files in .HLP format which runs fine on 98,Me and XP, but you must compile your help file using HCP.EXE (the 16-bit version of the help compiler). Try www.Easyhelp.com for a very useful help system, using MS Word, which works. ChrisMc

One I've found - some DVD re-writers cause I/O failure messages. The workround is to leave a disk in the drive. I think they are appearing as fixed disks to FP (probably because of the capacity) and how can you have a fixed drive that returns a 'No disk in' message!

Thanks for taking the time, Wangbar. Doesn't seem to have changed anything but I appreciate the tip. Chris

I commissioned a website and a program to connect and pass parameters to it. The programmer has gone walkabout and, although I (and a website guy who is helping) have the source code, neither of us know Flash. The problem is that the program should connect to the "processupdate.php" when...

I have a two-column report: items of [Group type 1] must be in column 1, items of [Group type 2] must be in column 2. The table contains records where [Group type 1] are first, but the number of records of [Group type 1] is variable. In the report, [Group type] is set to start a new column...

The answer is of course the good ole' registry I've updated my FAQ with the required entries, for anybody going down this road.

My App is written under FP Windows 2.6a with the fast processor patch applied. On startup and if required it adds to WIN.INI the entry [MSAPPS] msapps=c:\windows\msapps If required it then copies GRAPH.EXE (version 3) to C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\MSGRAPH The App contains an included CONFIG.FPW file...

Dave; Thanks again! It's not that the mouse isn't recognised - a double-blip *is* recognised, the VALID fires and a check mark is placed in the MARGIN. If you then press down-arrow to select a second entry and hit return there will be two marks in the MARGIN. However, if instead of pressing...

This is driving me up the wall! Firstly, Dave S helped a lot regarding monospaced fonts in a popup which seems will only happen when Foxfont is used. So moving on, the program below is the essence of what I am trying to do - have multi-selections in a list. This works *perfectly* if the...

Dave - how interesting! If I use Foxfont in the original code it works and takes on that character. Ok, it solves my problem and many thanks. I wonder, however, why it *doesn't* work with other monospaced fonts. I'll have to make sure I distribute Foxfont with the app. Presumably I'll find...