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    LOCAL vars and Naming Conventions

    This is not an actual problem, it’s about scope and naming conventions of variables and is related to good coding style and programming principles. (I’m posting this after having read thread184-1527177. I’m also familiar with Hungarian Notation and Naming Conventions). Suppose you have the...
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    "Fuzzy", Incremental or Soft Search

    I need to find words and phrases in a table (a dictionary) and am looking for a better algorithm. I will appreciate your input. Variables: Word, Phrase Table records: ... in in order in order to in spite ... etc. I read each word sequentially from a text file. My difficulty is to find the...
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    Step-by-Step Guide to Visual FoxPro

    VFP help is just a look-up resource, not a learning tool. (One cannot learn a language from a dictionary, can they?). If someone wants to learn VFP 9, they need a step-by-step guide how to start with version 9.0. This guide should contain - the basic principles of programming under 9.0: what...
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    How to RETURN from a Form?

    Hello again, I have a main form (Form 1), displaying a text file. A menu command calls a procedure in an external file, which processes the text file. Sometimes the procedure displays Form 2 to accept user input (DO Form2 WITH Params), appends a record and is RELEASEd (THISFORM.Release). No...
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    How to add properties in the IDE

    Hello and forgive my stupid question. I'm still struggling with the IDE in 9.0 :( I need to add a property to a form to hold a value, which I'm going to pass as a parameter. (The Help for 'How to: Pass Parameters to a Form' says: 'Create properties on the form to hold the parameters...') How...
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    VFP on 2 monitors

    1. What is the proper way to work on 2 monitors (notebook + monitor)? How can 2 monitors help application development? 2. The Debugger remembers its last position and later when I use the notebook panel only, I cannot see it. Is there a way to reset the position of the Debugger to appear on the...
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    Adding objects to toolbar

    I am creating my 1st toolbar. I have the following questions and problems: 1. Is there a sample toolbar like the Standard one in VFP with the common buttons (Open, Save, Cut, Copy, Paste, etc.)? I plan to copy and change it according to my needs. (I could not find one in the Solution samples.)...
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    International applications

    Everything seems to be going global these days. What about Visual FoxPro? Is it possible to create a table, which holds records in languages from different codepages, say English, Russian, Chinese. A simple example is to create a combobox for the user to choose a language using the native...
  9. academica

    System Menu Names

    I want to quickly add a simple menu to my project (File, New, Open, Close, Exit). I copied the two files ..\Coverage\Demos\demo.mn? to my project. Run! But the bars Open and Exit are disabled. I expected that _mfi_new, _mfi_open, etc. will start their corresponding procedures. The help says...

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