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Changing Command Window Title
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07/05/2008 14:19:42
 
 
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07/05/2008 14:10:28
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01315654
Message ID:
01315693
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>>>I have two monitors. The VFP window is usually displayed in the left monitor while the right will usually have the Command, Document View, and Properties windows docked together.
>>>
>>>When I have multiple sessions of VFP running I sometimes run into the problem of clicking on the "wrong" command window and inadvertantly switching to a different session.
>>>
>>>The VFP windows have _Screen.Caption set to the application name. I've tried MODI WINDOW but
>>>that fails because "Window was not created with DEFINE Window." Is there any way to change the caption in the Command/Doc View/Properties window to match _Screen.caption????
>>>
>>>All replies appreciated.
>>>
>>>......Rich
>>
>>I do not know about form caption, but I think, if that screen/form .backcolor would be easiear to recognize.
>>
>>
>>Good Luck
>
>Thanks for responding. I don't think backcolor will do the trick. But perhaps there is some way of setting the color of the form's titlebar to some unique value each time a new instance of VFP is called?


Can you change the caption for each VFP instance? That works for me, and I usually have 6 or 7 VFP environments open at a time.
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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