I work for a small company that does ambulance transport medical billing. Our company uses an in house developed billing software written by our owner using FoxPro 2.5 which was obviously developed many years ago. I myself develop applications for our business primarily using Visual FoxPro 9.0 which I have self taught over the years working here.

It has come time to get rid of the old Fox 2.5 and move towards a product that works in a windows environment instead of DOS based and that will work with newer operating systems like Windows 7. As a starting point, I have been tasked with getting the old Fox 2.5 code working in a windows program without having to rewrite the program using Visual FoxPro objects which we will gradually add VFP objects later. I have done so by taking the old prg’s and compiling them, with some modification, into a win32 executable which allows me to have the old system running in the main Visual FoxPro window.

My problem is that everywhere the code uses the @...GET command, the cursor does not show on the screen which is a problem for the user. I know that the @...GET command is included in Visual FoxPro for backward compatibility so do you have any insight as to why the cursor does not show or is this something that cannot be corrected in this situation with running FoxPro 2.5 code with the Visual FoxPro runtime library as it is not fully backward compatible?

Any help with this or any other advice with this type of conversion would be greatly appreciated!

Thank You,
Mark