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The command window is all in VFP. Don't look disappointed, though: You'll find the command window 100X more powerful than that limited menu-interface that MS Access has.
Try these commands:
CREATE TABLE
MODIFY STRUCTURE
LIST STRUCTURE
APPEND
BROWSE NORMAL
EDIT NORMAL
CREATE DATABASE
MODIFY DATABASE
Also, note that any of these can be abbreviated to the first 4 characters.. ie: CREA TABL; MODI STRU; MODI DATA, etc.
The command window is all in VFP. Don't look disappointed, though: You'll find the command window 100X more powerful than that limited menu-interface that MS Access has.
Try these commands:
CREATE TABLE
MODIFY STRUCTURE
LIST STRUCTURE
APPEND
BROWSE NORMAL
EDIT NORMAL
CREATE DATABASE
MODIFY DATABASE
Also, note that any of these can be abbreviated to the first 4 characters.. ie: CREA TABL; MODI STRU; MODI DATA, etc.
You can also actually write programs with interactive user interface, like in VB. If you are familiar with VB programming - many things in VFP are similar to VB as far as user inteface design is concerned.
Start from clicking File/New, click on Project, save it in some directory (do not save it in your VFP7 directory! Make something like C:\MyWorks directory) and then click Add to add a new form into your project.
One thing you have to be aware, though: unlike VB, VFP does not automatically starts dialog, you have to issue the command
READ EVENTS
to start dialog and the command
CLEAR EVENTS
to end it.
You might wanna look up these commands in the VFP's Help.
Good luck and welcome to the club!
Regards.
Start from clicking File/New, click on Project, save it in some directory (do not save it in your VFP7 directory! Make something like C:\MyWorks directory) and then click Add to add a new form into your project.
One thing you have to be aware, though: unlike VB, VFP does not automatically starts dialog, you have to issue the command
READ EVENTS
to start dialog and the command
CLEAR EVENTS
to end it.
You might wanna look up these commands in the VFP's Help.
Good luck and welcome to the club!
Regards.
The easiest way to get started developing VFP programs is to take someone else's program and practice modifying it. The danger is that you can easily pick up bad programming habits if you start with a poorly designed program. Anyone have a good example to point at? The TasTrade example that ships with VFP is rather complicated to start with.
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