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Does anyone have an idea of about how many applications worldwide are still running in FoxPro or VFP? My user group is getting restless and I need some facts to throw at them.

I see a few years back some posted a question about how to implement a DLL that was used to encode postal mailing information into the new USPS Intelligent Mail Barcode sequence. I would like to find that or a similar way to create the encoding. Thanks Emma

I have noticed and also received many questions from my clients about the variance in time to produce results from a SELECT SQL query over a network. What I observe is that the first time you perform a non-optimized query that the results may take several minutes. However the same query run a...

I have noticed with VFP8 using ADIR() to create a list of file names in a specified folder produces an error 31 if there are more than around 13,000 files. In VFP9 I don't get that error. Is there a way to increase the number of files ADIR() can count in VFP8? I tried the DIMENSION function...

Is there a way to add images to a grid? I have a table with these fields: includeimage, imagefilename. I want to display a grid with a check box in column1 and the image for each record in the column2. Then let the user check which images they want to use. I know how to add a checkbox and...

In VFP6-8 I was able to use labels.reg along with labels.dbf/fpt to register default Avery label layouts. Then when I issue the command "Modify Label MyNewLabel" a window would open that allowed me to select from the registered list of Avery labels. This doesn't seem to be an option with VFP9...

I want to search for exact matching text in a character or memo field. Is there a way to do that in VFP. For example I want to create an SQL statement that will select all records from a table with the word "cart" in the field text1. But I DON'T want the results to include records with...

I have a report that included Data Grouping. How can I print the number of groups in the report?

I am trying to determine the best setting for sys(3050,1). I see a number of discussions here with different answers. Some say 500 MB one says 618 MB and others say 1/2 of the available physical memory, which could be 1536 MB on a 3GB computer. What setting is best for performance. Thanks

I would like to determine the physical memory. I have a rountine for an API call using GlobalMemoryStatus() which works only if there is 2GB or less. I understand there is another API call named GlobablMemoryStatusEX(). Can someone give me the Foxpro code to use GlobablMemoryStatusEX() or...

Is it possible to access the properties and methods of a modeless child form from its modeless parent. For example: I create Form1 with a two command bottons: Button1 one code is "Do Form2" and Button1 two code is "Form2.Windowstate=1" I run Form1 and press Button1 which opens Form2...

Hello, I love the new AutoComplete properties in VFP9. But I have fould a couple of problems. 1)Sometimes when a users selects an entry from the drop down list that is more than 30 characters a duplicate record with that entry is added to the list? 2)Is there any way short of making the...

Does anyone have experience installing a VFP application on Windows Vista. I am using VFP8 and Installshield Express v11. I have number of ActiveX components that are also installed. Everything seems to work well as long as you are logged into the computer as the same user that installed the...

Can someone tell me the difference between using WScript.Shell and ShellExecute? I want to make the best choice in my VFP8 application where I allow users to open MS-Word, Excel, PDF files, play audio and video files and view websites. Thanks