Recent content by LindaRichard

Thanks to all of you for your comments. I'll go with the string entry approach. Linda

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I guess this means that there is no way of transforming very long numbers into strings in VFP. Thanks Linda

I have a series of numbers with various precisions: For example a(1)=12.34 a(2)=134.234 a(3)=1343456543.343234323 I wan't to transform these numeric values into strings but I want to retain the original precision. I know that for example, if I wanted to round to 2 digits I could use...

That's what I will do. Thanks again for your advise. Linda

Mike thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately I would need to save the worksheet first which I don't want to do. Do you know of any other way to automatically show the content of the worksheet in print preview? Thanks again for your help. Linda

Hi, When programming Excel from VFP 8.0 is there a way to display a sheet in print preview view on entry instead of the standard grid sheet? I also have code to display some text over serveral columns using the merge command, this works fine, except that I would like the row height to adjust...

Hi Mike, Thank's for your answer. This is not the first time that you have answered one of my questions and I very much appreciate your responses. Your right, not the answer that I was hoping for, but now I can concentrate I finding a solution. I will go with a local copy of the database...

My question is more of a "what is VFP doing?" For example, I have been performing a search of a character field, named sampleno. This field is indexed and a common search would be to find a sampleno that contains "ABC". The database is located on a server and this search is run from a local...

Mike thanks for your reply. It sounds like it will work, but as you mention, my only concern is the use of the timer. I will give it a try. Thanks again for your help. Linda

Mike, Thanks for your reply, I appreciate you taking the time, to answer my question. I have part of my problem resolved. In the refresh event of class that contains my toolbar I place the following code: IF SKPPAD('_medit','_med_cut') then this.cmdCut.enabled=.f. ELSE...

Hi, I have a menu bar that contains cut/copy/paste items _med_copy etc... This menu bar was created using the wizard and displayed using do menuiso.mpr ( I am using VFP 8.0 sp1) This works fine various cut/copy/paste items are enabled/disabled depending what type of control is being edited...

Thanks to both of you for answering my question. Both the grid and textbox are currently set at arial. Changing the font does make a change on what the character looks like but there is still some odd character displayed in the grid. I set the textbox property addlinefeed to .f. so this should...

I have a multi-line edit box and a grid that displays the typed text. The problem is when the user includes a return in the edit box the return appears as a square character in the grid. When I browse the database record the return is represented as a double vertical line character. Anybody...

Thank you both for taking the time to answer my question. I will do as you suggested and parse them out. Thanks again Linda

Hi, I am trying to display the number 0.00000009 using scientific notation. I set the .format property of a text box at ^ and it displays 9.0000E-8. I would like to control the precision of the number displayed. For example I want to display 9.0E-8. I tried setting .format to 9.9^ and #.#^...