Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
>Hello out there! I have a client that has old legacy apps written in FoxPro 2.5 for DOS
>running under Windows XP. A lot of the screens need maintenance/fixing before they can
>be revamped and eventually rewritten in VFP 8.0. The old system is in production and is
>in constant maintenance (They have a huge backlog).
>
>It's been a long while since I've touched FoxPro 2.x for DOS/Windows (I've been
>developing apps in VFP 6.0 and 8.0 for the last seven years). I went into the screen builder
>in FoxPro 2.5 for Dos (Arrgh! I had to get used to the old aqua blue and purple screens again)
>and found that I could easily add push buttons, text, checkboxes, @Say and @Get fields, popups
>and lists (Spinners are only available in FoxPro 2.x for Windows as the help file for
>FoxPro for DOS says). However, there are no grids available.
>
>Am I crazy or is this most important feature missing from FoxPro 2.x for DOS?!? How in the
>world did old FoxPro 2.x for DOS programmers get by without a grid to display rows from a
>child table? Did they somehow use a bunch of lists placed parallel to each other,
>SET a RELATION from the parent table to the child table and display each column from
>the child table in a seperate list? Any insight and help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
As others have said, it was done with the BROWSE command. However, getting a smooth flow from the @ say gets to the browse and back was always tricky. It isn't like dropping a grid on a form.
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