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Thanks all Will try these suggestions when I am taking a break from serious development Currently working on an ERP type big software package for a commercial establishment. primary goal is to it as user friendly as possible and make the user experience smooth without any hiccups which I have...

Hi all I agree with the suggestion that we should always try to provide more than expected in a software to be very user-friendly which I have always done for most of my customised applications where the user got more time-saving features while doing data entry etc.. for now, I did some study...

Hi all I have data entry form which has a text box fror entry of a website URL. does anyone have a logic for validating the entered URL whether the format is valid or not? maybe a regex which can be checked against the string? any help appreciated Thanks Ravi

Hi All I have defined the images path in the vfp config.fpw file. After hunting for the cause, I found that when vfp starts up on my machine, I run a small utility to display and select the project to be worked on. this utility was resetting the path for some older projects hence the defined...

Thanks Paul for the suggestions. What I find not understandable is the path images is defined in my config.fpw file and all my images are in this folder. Some images are displaying without specifying the fullpath and some are not. Strange.. I had a thought the maybe the image i need is not...

Hi all there is a defined path in the config.fpw file and all other images are displaying except the one mentioned above I then added as so: imgpath = fullpath(curdir()) + 'images\<filename> thisform.image1.picture = imgpath Its displaying now the path images is defined in the config.fpw...

Hi all I have a form with an image control on it with the picture property set to a png image in the picture property ... the image is available in the defined path the issue is the image does not display when the form runs. I have tried converting the image to .jpg and .bmp but still no go...

Hi Sure. we can share knowledge which will help you make modern and better applications Regards Ravi

Hi Which version of Excel? I think all later versions of excel are accessible with automation which may not be possible in DOS foxpro. I maybe wrong but just explore Regards Ravi

Hi I myself have been using foxcharts to draw simple graphs and haven't explored the full features yet. Sorry for not being able to help but there are lot of features in foxgraph which if used properly will give you the results you want. Have you gone through the help file to find what you are...

Hi all Just an observation .. I have created a form to display large set of records (53350) from a mysql table in a grid. I have an image control with a gif which is supposed to be showing the animations while my mySql query is running. the problem is .. the gif animates fine in the image...

Hi chris I now created a small test form, put an image control on it and ran the form. It's working. Can't figure out why when i did the exact same thing earlier it did not work Yes I have updated VFP to SP2 and version 09.00.0000.7423 is what I use for development Thanks again Ravi

Hi all I have a data entry form with some text fields and <save> and <cancel> buttons. My issue is that when focus is on a text box and cancel button is clicked the valid event of the text box fires and user has to click on ok on the messagebox that appears and then again click on cancel button...

Hi all Attached some sample gifs that I tried. Am using visual foxpro 9

Hi all I'm trying to display an animated gif in a form when some data is being retrieved or when some processing is going on. I've tried image control and webbrowser control, but I can't get the gif to animate. Any advice/sample code would be appreciated thanks