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Hi I am trying to use an Active X button in my system that is written in Visual Foxpro 6.0. The one that I have had a little success with is 3D Magic. It works fine in my first screen but then initially caused subsequent called screens to act in a very odd manner. They in fact seemed to pass...

Hi Thanks for your help everyone. I tried it again yesterday morning using SCREEN=OFF and running the form minimised and it worked fine. Don't know what I was doing wrong the day before. By the way I don't think ShownInTaskBar is in VFP6. Malcolm.

Mike The form shows no sign of operating but from the command window I can see it running on the task bar and then clearing. The .exe however with SCREEN=OFF does not appear on the task bar. If seems to do the processing but then stops. If you CTRL-ALT-DEL you can see it is still running...

Hi I have an a bookings application written in VFP 6 under which I want to run a procedure that will be activated every hour and will automatically create and send emails. I would like this procedure to be completely transparent to the user. I have created a main prog but as my email...

Hi I have a system written in VFP6 which sends text messages by sending emails to a web site using MSMAPI32.OCX. I am having problems when a £ sign is included in the subject line. Under default settings Outlook Express converts the subject line into the format =?iso-8859-1?Q? etc. If 'allow...

Hi I have an appointments system written in VFP 6. There is now a requirement to capture and store photos for each of the clients from within the system. What is required is that the user chooses the Client Details in the system and enters a name for the photo about to be taken. They then...

Hi I have used PCAnywhere through modem connection for several years to provide remote support but am a complete novice at using IP addresses and the Internet. Have set up connections on my private network using IP addressing but now want to be able to connect into the network from a remote...

Hi MIke Thanks for the tips. Can you get the same error with a grid? By the way have you ever lived in the States? Probably a different Mike Lewis. Regards Malcolm P.

Hi I have a VFP6.0 application running which has an initial program which then calls a Top Level form from where others forms are called. Thus when running you can see two items on the taskbar one for VFP and one for the application. In general the application is running well but I am getting...

Hi I have an application written in VFP 6.0 which is causing a problem on one site where it is running on a pier to pier network with a mixture of XP and ME. The system is actually on an ME machine. Everything runs fine except that one index keeps being corrupted. The Table BOOKDETS has three...

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Hi Can anyone recommend any 3rd party software that can be added to a VFP 6.0 application to enable text messages to be sent to mobile phones? Best Regards Malcolm

Thanks Mike I have just tried that but get the following errors: c:\windows\system32\graph8.exe was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. c:\windows\system32\graph8.exe does not appear to be a .DLL or .OCX file. Any more ideas? Regards Malcolm.

Hi I have just added graphs to an application developed in VFP 6 by using MSGRAPH in a general field with an associated OLEBOUNDCONTROL. Everything works fine on my computer which has Office 2000 installed. I have used the SETUP wizard to create an installation disk which only contains...

Thanks I have got MSGraph working although I am struggling with some of the properties. However I was trying to make use of MSCHRT20.OCX which I can put in an OLECONTROL but not seemingly in a General Field connected to an OLEBOUNDCONTROL which is what I need in order to put it in a report...