FoxPro Advisor Magazine Articles July 1994
ID: Q127036
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The information in this article applies to:
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Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5x, 2.6, 2.6a
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Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, versions 2.0, 2.5x, 2.6, 2.6a
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Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, versions 2.5x, 2.6a
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Below is the table of contents of the July 1994 FoxPro Advisor, a magazine
published by Data Based Solutions, Inc., 4010 Morena Blvd., Suite 200, San
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FoxPro News, page 6.
Editor's View, page 8. Microsoft Does the Hokey Pokey. By John L. Hawkins.
Functional FoxPro, page 10. FoxPro 2.6 Commands and Functions. By Malcolm
C. Rubel. FoxPro 2.6 is being promoted as a more complete alternative to
dBASE IV. Even for developers who can't spell dBASE, there are plenty of
new goodies in FoxPro 2.6. SET COMPATIBLE DB4, SET COMPATIBLE ON, FOXPLUS,
Null support, EMPTY(), ISBLANK(), FDATE(), FTIME(), FSIZE(), PARAMETERS().
Inside a .DBF: Why ISBLANK() Doesn't Work with All Data Types, page 14. By
Malcolm C. Rubel. All data in a dbf is stored as character ASCII data.
FoxPro Fundamentals, page 16. Programming for Networks. By Miriam Liskin.
When data is shared on a network, locking is essential. The techniques
presented here get you started, and may be all you want. EXCLUSIVE, SHARED,
CALCULATE, SUM, REPLACE, DELETE, SET LOCK, READ NOLOCK, RLOCK(), SET
REPROCESS, RECALL, BROWSE WHEN, BROWSE VALID,
Screen Builder, page 22. Fonts, Pixels, and the FoxPro for Windows Screen
Builder. By Robert Green. What is the proper SIZE of a GET when a
proportional font is used? SCATTER MEMVAR, FONTMETRIC(), PICTURE.
Screen Builder, page 24. Tools for Sizing Proportional Font GET Fields. By
Drew Speedie. FONTMETRIC(), GETFONT(), TEXTMERGE, TXTWIDTH(), numeric field
and character fields with numbers, leading and trailing spaces, READBORDER,
GET.
Screen Builder, page 30. Make Your popups and Lists More Descriptive. By
Joe Homnick. Basing popups and scrollable lists on arrays give you
tremendous flexibility. SCATTER MEMVAR, SHOW GETS, ASCAN().
Select SQL, page 32. Modify Table Structures on the Fly. By. Wayne A.
Willingham. SQL is a query language. So how and why is it useful for
modifying the structure of data tables? COPY STRUCTURE EXTENDED, APPEND,
CREATE TABLE FROM ARRAY, AFIELDS(), SELECT, INSERT.
Developer Toolkit, page 36. Storing Multiple Values in a Single Field. By
Robert Gryphon. In effect, a multi-value field is a one-dimensional array
of values stored in a single field of a given record.. ADEL(), AINS(),
ASCAN(), MEMLINES(), MLINE(), SCATTER, GATHER, SET MEMOWIDTH, SET RELATION.
FoxPro Tip, page 46 (table of contents says page 36 in error). When SET
DEFAULT Doesn't. By Tamar E. Granor. When you change the FoxPro drive with
SET DEFAULT, the DOS drive isn't changed.
Q&A, page 50. FoxPro Solutions. By Steve Freides and Tamar E. Granor.
Screen sets, PgUp, PgDn, Invisible buttons, _CUROBJ, Network Printing,
Novell capture, FPNET, GPLIB, NetLib, SET PRINT TO \\SPOOLER, UDFs, SET
FILTER, conditional indexing.
Additional query words:
FoxWin FoxDos FoxMac 2.50, 2.50a 2.50b 2.50c dba fpa novel
Keywords : FxotherReference
Version : 2.60a | 2.60a | 2.60a
Platform : MACINTOSH MS-DOS WINDOWS
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