>Basically I'm writing a program that listens to a comm port and displays what is being recieved on to the form.
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>How would I go about doing this? I'm new to foxpro and was wondering where I would start. Basically I know how to send iformation to a LABEL by doing this..
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>thisform.LABEL.caption = commPortRecieved
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>But what if I wanted to display the information in a edit box? or something like an edit box? can someone please give this noob some insight on how to do this w/out using a LABEL. Because I want to fill out the text box as its listening and I dont think a label will be appropriate for this.
For an EditBox or a TextBox, you would change the .Value property.
ThisForm.TxtResult.Value = commPortReceived
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