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Rick Borup
rbInputBox() is a simple, general-purpose input box for Visual FoxPro. Although VFP now has a native InputBox() function (as of VFP 7.0), rbInputBox() provides certain functionality not available in the native VFP InputBox() function, such as the ability to handle character, date, numeric, and currency data types. New in this version is the ability to set the PasswordChar property of the textbox, which enables using it to enter masked passwords. Freeware with source code, a readme file, and a demo program.
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23 years ago
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rbInputBox() is a simple, general-purpose input box for Visual FoxPro, which up until version 7.0 lacked a native input box of its own. rbInputBox was originally developed for VFP 6.0, and has now been updated and renamed to work with VFP 7.0 and later. It is now called "rbInputBox" so its use doesn't conflict with VFP's own InputBox() function. Even though VFP now has its own InputBox() function, rbInputBox() provides functionality not available in the native VFP InputBox(). One advantage of rbInputBox() is that it can handle several data types (character, date, numeric, and currency), whereas the native InputBox function works only with strings. Other advantages are that rbInputBox() allows you to control the positioning of its window on the screen, and to specify Format, InputMask, and PasswordChar properties for its textbox. The parameter pattern for rbInputBox() was originally adapted from Visual Basic's InputBox() function in order to provide consistency for those familiar with VB. In order to maintain compatibility with previous versions, that parameter pattern has been preserved in the current version of rbInputBox(), even though it is somewhat different than the parameter pattern used by VFP's own InputBox() function. rbInputBox() has been tested on VFP 6.0 and VFP 7.0.
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Rick Borup
Rick Borup is owner and president of Information Technology Associates, a professional software development, computer services, and information systems consulting firm he founded in 1993. Rick earned BS and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and spent several years developing software applications for mainframe computers before turning to microcomputer database development tools in the late 1980’s. He began working with FoxPro in 1991, and has worked full time in Fox...

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