>>I didn't see anyone mention this...but I may have missed it....
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>>InfoWorld this week has a review of VFP 6.0. It is mentioned on the cover, then reviewed on p. 135. The reviewer really like it!!!!
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>>Just one quote for you..
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>>"...Visual FoxPro is in serious contention with its competitors, such as PowerBuilder, for Sybase, and Delphi, from Inprise..."
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>Did you notice that he left out VB? Delphi does general purpose programming like VB unlike PowerBuilder which is data centric. So, that means that VFP is a contender with VB if you read between the lines, eh?
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>By the way, are there classes here which have the LOCKSCREEN encapsulated for the Refresh method? You once said that you had a class which handled this...
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>Regards,
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>Jack Mendenhall


I handle the lockscreen stuff in my classes. It's very easy to do:

LOCAL llLockScreen

llLockScreen = ThisForm.LockScreen
ThisForm.LockScreen = .T.

* remainder of method code goes here

ThisForm.LockScreen = llLockScreen
RETURN