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08/05/2009 15:07:00
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
FoxPro 2.x
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
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Thread ID:
01398305
Message ID:
01398724
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>>>Hi Mike, I tried that and it doesn't make any difference - in the preview pane you can see the window increasing in width and height but when you press ok "lots of nothing happens" , also, when you view the properties they have reset to standard ( weird ? )
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>>I am following this thread with curiosity because I faced the exact same situation at a client that was still running some legacy FoxPro apps. (FPD 2.6 DOS -- ultra legacy ;-) ). I tried about a hundred things and none of them really worked. It seemed like a case of the OS insisting it was smarter than the user....
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>From XP, there are two things to watch for if you're setting that - Properties for the current window, and Defaults to set them for future windows of the same name. I presume it's similar in Vista.
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>I actually have a FPD 2.5 program running under XP, and it's held us back (thankfully!) from moving to Vista, because Vista flat WILL NOT print what the program tells it to.

I can't really say from an app POV. As a normal Windows user I am quite satisfied with Vista, after holding off quite a long time. At least in the latest SP you can turn off the annoying permission messages, which was the biggest thing that p*ssed people off. After using Vista for a year or more now, XP seems a little outdated when I use it at work.

Windows 7 is essentially Vista with the annoyances removed.
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