>Using FPW 2.6a under Win95, I can't seem to get BROWSE PREFERENCE to work.
>Here's the BROWSE statement:
>   BROWSE PREFERENCE BROWDEAL ;
>   FIELDS ;
>     DG_CNUM :H='Contract #',;
>     COMMDITY=IIF(!EMPTY(COMMODITY) AND
>SEEK('POS'+LEFT(COMMODITY,2),'CODES'), ;
>      CODES.CVAL,'') :H='Commodity' :15, ;
>     WEIGHT ,;
>     SELLER=IIF(SEEK(DG_SLRNUM,'CUSTS'),CUSTS.SHORTNAME,'') ;
>      :12 :H='Seller', ;
>     BUYER=IIF(SEEK(DG_BYRNUM,'CUSTS'),CUSTS.SHORTNAME,'') ;
>      :12 :H='Buyer', ;
>     SHDT=SUBSTR(DTOS(SHIP_DATE),5,2)+'/'+LEFT(DTOS(SHIP_DATE),4) :H='Ship
>Month',;
>     PRICE, ;
>     CTRDT=DG_DATE :H='Contract Date' ;
>    WINDOW VDEALS ;
>    REST NODELETE NOEDIT NOAPPEND &FONTSTYLE
>
>My understanding of the way PREFERENCE is supposed to work is that the user
>can change column widths and the order of columns in the browse, and these
>changes will be preserved in the preference record in the resource file.
>The next time the user executes the browse, the browse should open with
>field widths and column order as they were when the browse window was last
>closed with CTRL-W.  This does not appear to be the case with this BROWSE
>statement.
>
>RESOURCE is ON, and I see the preference record in the resource file.  The
>resource file is not write protected, and the READONLY field is .F.  Each
>user has their own resource file.
>
>It appears that user changes to column widths and/or column orders are
>preserved once in a blue moon, and randomly, at that.  I was able to click
>and drag to move the PRICE column to be the second column from the left, and
>that stuck so hard I couldn't move it anywhere else at all.  I'd click and
>drag to move it to a different column position (which it did), but after I
>closed the Browse window with CTRL-W and re-executed the browse, the PRICE
>column was back in the second-from-the-left column position.  Deleting the
>preference record from the resource file had no effect, until I packed the
>resource file and really got rid of it.  Only then did the PRICE column move
>back to second-from-the-right, as defined in the browse statement above.
>
>Am I incorrect in my assumption about how BROWSE PREFERENCE works?
>
>What can I do to give my end users the ability to set the field widths and
>column order in the above browse, and have their setting preserved so that
>subsequent times they execute the browse, the browse window opens with the
>field widths and column order from their previous execution of that browse?
I'm not real sure but I believe that once you have the browse window the way you want it you have to set the resource off and open the foxuser file as a table and change the readonly to .T.