How to Copy Memo or General Fields to New Records

ID: Q101018

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0
Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5, 2.5a
Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, versions 2.0, 2.5, 2.5a

According to page C3-723 in the FoxPro 2.0 "Commands & Functions" manual and page L3-886 of the FoxPro 2.5 "Language Reference" manual, SET CARRY ON will "bring all fields from the current record to a new record." This statement is incorrect. SET CARRY ON will not bring forward memo or general fields. (Using SET CARRY TO and specifying the memo or general field also will not bring the memo or general field forward.)

To copy the contents of a memo field to a new record, use the REPLACE command. For example:


   temp = db.memfield
   APPEND BLANK
   REPLACE db.memfield WITH temp

NOTE: The following methods require that the system menu bars and appropriate shortcut keys be available for _MED_COPY and _MED_PASTE, and that the menu be active and available (SET SYSMENU ON or SET SYSMENU AUTOMATIC).

To copy a general field, use the following code: USE table1 SELECT 0 USE table2 SELECT table1 SKIP 1 KEYBOARD "{ctrl+c} {ctrl+w}" MODIFY GENERAL table1.genfield SELECT table2 APPEND BLANK KEYBOARD "{ctrl+v} {ctrl+w}" MODIFY GENERAL table2.genfield
To carry all information from all fields, except for general fields, into a new record, use one of the following methods:

Method 1


   SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO
   APPEND BLANK
   GATHER MEMVAR MEMO

Method 2


   SET CARRY ON
   BROWSE NOWAIT
   KEYBOARD "{CTRL+N}"

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Version : 2.50 2.50a 3.00| 2.00 2.50 2.50a
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