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    Controlling LPT ports, Com ports, Stepper motor controllers

    I am working on a project to make an XY table controlled with a PC using stepper motors. I have found quite a bit of information on the subject and just found telepathy for RS232 communication through Clipper on this forum. One choice I have is a turnkey system that has C and other library...
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    Looking for Organizational program to document clipper programs

    I am using windows grep and Boxer editor. On order is Blinker 7.0 and I am using Clipper 5.3. I have 6 programs written 10 or more years ago that share 42 database files and index files. I need to make changes to all of them to allow input of more than 4 digets on a job number. So I have to...
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    Wierd? My .prg files do not automatically compile when I change them

    When i work on .prg files and make a change and save the file when i use program manager to "RUN" the file it isnt recompiling the file. It use to and just stopped doing it today. If I manually select the file and compile it its fine. I make a file ? 'hello' and run it its fine i...
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    Why wnen Drawwidth is set to 1, i can't see pixel using Pset

    When I set the DrawWidth in a form to 1 I can not see the pixels whan I use Pset it works with setting of 2 or above.
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    Slide Show Forward and Back Buttons

    I am using an inline frame to display a slide show. Instead of using thumbnails I would like to use 2 buttons, Forward and Back. Do I need to do this in PHP or is there a way to do it with an HTML page? It would also be nice if i could have 2 inline frames and load text in one and the picture in...
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    How can I make vertical space between lines of text in a cell?

    I do not see where I can adjust the line spaceing I know about SHIFT return but I am talking about text wrapping automatically to the next line in a paragraph. Using Franklin Gothic Medium. I would also like to be able to set the font to a default font because it keeps defaulting as times new roman.
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    God no wonder Gates makes so much money

    Just starting out here on trying to install linux Thought I would post some things as I go for others that may follow me in this nightmare of undocumented and very hard to understand instructions so far while I try and install Debian GNU/Linux I thought I would just put up the problems I run...
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    installed freebsd and my old linux mandrake still boots up

    New to linux, I have an old linux mandrake 2.2 version server that I wanted to install freebsd on. I have 2 scsi drives 0:0 and 2:0 and a 4:0 CD-ROM I made the installl disks, used the FTP install and all went well. When I selected the install disk I used A for use all disk space, setup and A...
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    The following link no longer works about Navigation Keys/Wizard

    I searched the forum for my question Where is the code located for the Navigation Buttons that are generated when you use the wizard to create a form with a Table. I did not find the answer to where the code is from the replys. Is there a link to find out where this code is or do I just want to...
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    How can I use LIB.EXE from VC98 on 16bit .OBJ files

    I am trying to put all of my old CLIPPER 5.3 files in order so I can update them as needed. i wrote them back in early 90s Somehow I am unable to locate the LIB.EXE file that I used to make the library files. I tried using the LIB.exe from my Visual C++ directory and i get failure during...
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    I want to connect 4 mice to one computer

    I am building a measureing tool to collect data on movement of a rectangles 4 corners. If I could hook up 4 mice to a computer I could simply read the mouse positions of all 4 mice and log the data. Anyone know if this could work? Any ideas on computer boards and measuring instruments that...
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    File must be opened exclusively

    Three questions. My compiled program (.EXE) gives me the must be set exclusively. It does not give me the error when i am in foxpro. Why is that? I know it is because of a zap command. What i want to know is how do I get the error message to give me the line of code causing the error so I can...
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    Dataenvironment with 2 forms and code.prg

    I have 2 forms both forms have seperate tables in there dataenvironment. Form 1 DE has mainfile.dbf Form 2 DE has srchwrd.dbf Form 1 has a SEARCH button control that calls Form2 When Form 1 gets focus again the mainfile is open but the workarea has changed and the program asks for a .DBF...
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    Checkbox, where to put code

    Have a from with checkboxes the checkbox control source for each checkbox is linked to a field in a table. When the user clicks the checkbox I need to update another field in the data table to reflect the change. I will read the .t. or .f. linked field in the table. The question is where should...
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    Checkbox, controlsource, bittest()

    I have a form with 30 check boxes on it. I plan on using a table with a 4 bit integer field to hold the data values of the check boxes using the bitor() to set the bits. Example checkbox1 checked checkbox2 not checked . . checkbox30 checked I would then set bit 30 bit 2 and bit 1 in the integer...
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    I am trying to follow the instructions in the following FAQ My oleImageEdit control does not have .Datafield however it has "image" so I replaced the datafield ref to image, but the line .oleImageEdit.image = filename has the error. I tried thisform.oleImageEdit.image = filename with...
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    Highlight Text in editbox on forms

    I have a program that will search a memo field for keywords. Is there an easy way to highlight the keywords if you use an editbox linked to a memo field? I was thinking about the other character sets for non english. Are the character sets editable and could I make highlighted character sets in...
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    I gotta be an Idiot

    Its 3am and I am still pulling my hair out because my forms run great in foxpro but not in an EXE. So I made a simple program that finally seems to work if i am doing something wrong let me know, I have one question as to where the clear events should go, QueryUnload or Unload Program file...
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    Forms Filenames and NAME

    I read the following from a search on forms <<< If you want to call another form from a form use:- <<< DO FORM MysecondForm NAME oSecondForm LINKED A form has 2 filenames formname.scx and formname with no extension. It also has a properties NAME In the above DO FORM i get this one...
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    Memo Fields

    The project I am working on will have a text notes field. The words will need to be indexed so a search can be done. If I use a memo field, How do I access the data in the memo field. 2. The properties in a TEXT controll has a MemoWindow it says at the bottom, Specifies the name of the user...

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