Menu Differences

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Visual FoxPro displays only menus with active options. Some menu items have moved to different locations. For more information on Visual FoxPro menus, see System Menu Names.

FoxPro 2.6 or 3.0
menu command
Visual FoxPro
menu command
1 1/2 Space (Text Menu) 1 1/2 Space (Format Menu)
Append (Record Menu) Append Records (Table Menu)
Append From (Database Menu) Import (File Menu)
Beautify (Program Menu) Beautify (Tools Menu)
Documenting Wizard
Browse (Record Menu) Browse (View Menu)
Change Links  (Edit Menu) Links (Edit Menu)
Copy To (Database Menu) Export (File Menu)
Debug (Program or Tools
Menu)
Debugger (Tools Menu)
Delete (Record Menu) Delete Records (Table Menu)
Double Space (Text Menu) Double Space (Format Menu)
Enlarge (Text Menu) Enlarge Font (Format Menu)
Font (Text Menu) Font (Format Menu)
FoxDoc (Program Menu) Documenting Wizard
Generate (Program Menu) Visual FoxPro generates only menus.
Goto (Record Menu) Go To Record (Table Menu)
Indent (Text Menu) Indent (Format Menu)
Locate (Record Menu) Go To Record (Table Menu)
Macros (Program Menu) Macros (Tools Menu)
Pack (Database Menu) Remove Deleted Records (Database Menu)
Printer Setup (File Menu) Page Setup (File Menu)
Recall (Record Menu) Recall Records (Table Menu)
Reduce (Text Menu) Reduce Font (Format Menu)
Reindex (Database Menu) Rebuild Indexes (Table Menu)
Rebuild Table Indexes (Database Menu)
Replace (Record Menu) Replace Field (Table Menu)
Replace All (Edit Menu) Replace (Edit Menu)
Replace and Find Again
(Edit Menu)
Replace (Edit Menu)
Report (Database Menu)
Label (Database Menu)
Print (File Menu)
Single Space (Text Menu) Single Space (Format Menu)
Spelling (Text Menu) Spelling (Tools Menu)
Trace (Program or Tools Menu) Debugger (Tools Menu)
UnIndent (Text Menu) Unindent (Format Menu)

Visual FoxPro 6.0 changed the structure of menu (.mnx) files. You can use earlier format menus in Visual FoxPro 6, but if you modify menus in Visual FoxPro 6.0, they will not work in earlier versions of Visual FoxPro. For details, see the structure file, 60MNX.frx, in the \FILESPEC directory.

For more information see “Introducing Visual FoxPro Designers,” “Using Builders,” and “Using Wizards” in Chapter 1, Getting Started, and “Setting Report Data Sources” in Chapter 7, Designing Reports and Labels, both in the User’s Guide; and “Assigning Method and Event Code” in Chapter 3, Object-Oriented Programming, and “Setting Properties at Design Time” in Chapter 9, Creating Forms, in the Programmer’s Guide.