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Can anyone tell me more about sys(3). I know it generates a randum number, but what is it based on. Will it always be unique over time and on different computers. I want to be able to generate randum numbers on different computers and be sure that they are all unique. Thanks

Can anyone tell me if Visual Foxpro is Unicode compliant (http://www.unicode.org) and if so, what version of Unicode and VFP. Thanks.

In my application I allow the user to print to an Adobe PDF file by selecting "Adobe PDF Writer" as the printer. This works fine except that it always assigns a default file name of "Visual FoxPro.pdf". Is there anyway to change that? Thanks...Rick

I would like to print "Continued on Next Page" on the bottom of each page of a report except the last page of the report (or the first page, if it is a single page report). I know about the "Print When" option, but don't know if there is a statement I can use to determine if...

I just upgraded from FrontPage 98 to FrontPage 2002 and am not happy. The one and only reason I use FrontPage is to create and manage a web discussion group. Not only are there no enhancements in the 2002 version, but it has a problem that in my mind makes it unusable. When a visitor posts a...

I have been using code similar to this to create a bulk email for everyone in the table mydatabase: scan oApp = createObject("Outlook.Application") oMail = oApp.CreateItem(0) oMail.to=alltrim(mydatabase.emailaddress) oMail.subject = "Subject here" oMail.body =...

Does anyone know of development software that can be used to build a simple application the runs on a Pocket PC that reads and writes data to Visual Foxpro or Dbase files? Thanks...

Does anyone know of development software that can be used to build a simple application the runs on a Pocket PC that reads and writes data to Visual Foxpro or Dbase files?

I am having an intermittent problem updating a Grid. It involves two forms. On the first form is a Grid that displays the payments received from a single customer. I have the Grid Recordsourcetype property set to 1-Alias. To populate the Grid I use these commands in the Refresh method of...

I am trying to setup a link to Visual Foxpro tables using ODBC. I am able to open all of the linked tables in Access except one. When I try to open it I get the message: "The form or report is based on a query that exceeds the limit for data in a single record" The Visual Foxpro...

I am trying to setup a link to Visual Foxpro tables using ODBC. I am able to open all of the tables except one. When I try to open it I get the message: "The form or report is based on a query that exceeds the limit for data in a single record" The Visual Foxpro table has 169...

When I include an image on a form and assign the picture property as “mypicture.jpg” the image displays, then I copy a different image into the same file name “mypicture.jpg”. The new image will not display until I exit and restart VFP6. Is there any way I can display the new image without...

When I try to create a new label layout in VFP6 for example with the command CREATE LABEL MYLABELS, it get the message "No label layouts found". When I try this with VFP5 on the same computer it gives me a list of Avery labels to choose from, which is what I want. Microsoft in...

I am using the following code to print a Word 2000 document from VFP6. oWord=CREATEOBJECT("Word.Basic") oWord.FileOpen ("MyLetter.doc") oWord.FilePrint It prints to the default printer. Is there a way I can prompt the user to select a different printer?. Like when using...

I want to print Word 2000 mail-merged letters for my VFP application. For example I have created a document in Word “Myletter.doc” and bookmarked the fields “contact” and “company”. Then in the application I have used this code: USE customers public oWord scan...

Is there a way to launch a web browser and go to a selected url. I am using VFP6 and I would like to have a field on a form for “Website”. Then if the user clicks on the field (or a command button next to it), the browser will start and take them to the website. Thanks...Rick

I have been using Espia Imaging verison 3.0.0.1 in My VFP5 application for years and it has been great until the introduction of Windows ME. Now my users are experiencing lockups when Espia is loaded or shutdown. Since Espia is no longer supported, does anyone know of a fix. Thanks Rick Hilton

I am posting this again because I didn't get an answer that worked last time I posted it. I hope that doesn't mean it is impossible. I want to customize the View portion for the VFP System Menu that is diplayed when my users modify reports. I don't want them to be able to Preview reports from...

In VFP 6.0 is there a way to remove "Preview" and "Data Enviroment" from the View menu that is dislayed when modifying a report. I know how to modify the system menu _MSYSMENU and about SYS(2013) which displays many of the system menu names but not the ones I am looking for...

When I import and export data with the IMPORT/EXPORT or COPY TO /APPEND FROM commands, the memo fields are ignored. Is there any way around that?