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My client recently purchased a Canon LASER SHOT LBP-2410 Laser Printer. The problem is, the printer will print the same page multiple times and this has not happened in other dot matrix and bubble jet printers. Furthermore, before printing starts, there is no messagebox saying "printing...

I have used wgcs' Sendmail program using mswinsck.ocx as per the faq given in the faq section. However, when an attachment is sent and opened in Netscape 6, the file is still encoded and of course, unreadable. When opened in Opera, the file can be opened but with a message "an error was...

I have a grid with command buttons to enable users to insert a note in a memo field corresponding to the selected record in the grid. If the note is not empty, another command button will appear with an image to indicate there is a note attached to the record. I managed to accomplish this. I...

I develop in VFP6 with Windows 2000 SP3. I used wscript especially for the purpose of calling external programs like PKZip. While waiting for PKZIP to finish, I added a form class to display an avi file using the Microsoft Animation Control 6.0 (SP4). It works fine with my pc but when used with...

I'm using VFP6 and has downloaded the vfpskin2 class. What a great idea and a boon to us not so skillful programmers. However, I managed to get it to work the first time and when I want to include it in my project, It gave me the error message: "Cant find config file or it is empty.&quot...

I am developing a software for a repossesed vehicles store yard operator where upon arrival, the repossessed vehicles are captured with a digital camera. I keep the image file references in a table and I'm able to show all the required images in my form (front view, side view etc). The problem...

I develop in VFP6 and still uses the dos based pkzip utility to back up my files. The backup procedure has two options, either to a: drive or a predetermined hard disk location. I used shellexecute to run the command and the required parameters and used the last parameter as "0" to...

I downloaded the faq "Sending Email without any third party OCX'. I took the code and put it in my project. Upon compiling, an error message pops up informing me that function "GetTimeZone" was not found and function "MID" was also not found. I manage to get the...

I was requested to consider developing an application where the main data will be collected from the "smart card" chips. I believe most of the interface of these chips are written in java. Apart from purchasing the smart card reader, what are other important issues involved, like...

I have downloaded the necessary files for the "Free PDF Maker for Visual FoxPro" and followed the instructions. I manage to create a PDF formatted report for almost all my reports except for those with images (jpg,bmps) where the images was converted to black and white instead of full...

Is there any utility to automatically search for a file and replace it with a newer version? What I want to do is send an updated app or exe to a server or one pc and then searches the entire network for the default folder of the app and replace it if its older. Any suggestions are welcomed.

Sometimes when doing an upgrade to an existing program, you will add additional fields or even add a new table altogether as well as create new index keys. I want to create a program that 1) records the structures of the new tables as well as existing ones 2) At the clients' place recreate...

I have the following setup in one of my modules: 1) Screen A opens and have a command button to open up a modal Screen B. 2) Screen B acts as a modification window for a memo field (From Screen A) where upon modification, the memo field will be saved to a variable m.det1. Upon pressing the Esc...

Firstly, Is there a way to export fpw26a memo field to excel? It seems that the command to insert the memo field is ignored despite other fields being correctly created in xls format. Secondly, Let's say I've created a blank excel sheet with the headers and nicely formatted columns. How do I...

I have a table of a fixed number of records (10) used to store users' ten most preferred text string which constitutes the first paragraph of a legal document. The table also stores the time and the date the record was created. What I want to do is when the ten records has been used up, the...

I recently purchased a win2000 computer and after installing all the required patches the fpw26 program works fine. However I found that in the win2000, the print setup for reports only caters for "default printer" instead of another option to print to "specific printer". I...

Windows XP has been launched (as if you didn't already know) and I would like to know whether anybody in the community has the opportunity to test their current systems with the new OS. We cannot stop our clients from upgrading their pc's and I would like to know what are the potential pitfalls...

A client of mine asked me whether it is possible to convert the reports generated to WORD or EXCEL format WITHOUT sacrificing the formatting embedded in those reports. I know that you can print the file to a .txt format and for excel you can use the copy to xls format from the dbf. However...

I have written a routine to justify text for output using the following method: 1) SET MEMOWIDTH to the desired length 2) Use MEMLINES to get the Number of Lines 3) For each line, calculate the number of spaces between words 4) Insert extra spaces evenly based on the above calculation so that...

In report writer, I have often used the "Print When" expression as well as the "Remove Line If Blank" option with variable success. I just want to know the logical explanation as to why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. For example, I have a report detailing loan...