>>>>>I read Alaska Software's software; they say Alaska Xbase runs old Clipper applications without any change.
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>>>>>Does anyone know, I just wondered will Polarfox run old FPDOS 2.6 applications without any change too? VFP cannot run old FPDOS applications without any change. There are problems with fonts, screen resolutions ...
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>>>>You just wrap the whole 80x25 screen into a form with fixed font and sufficient size to show it. You can actually define that form to use foxels instead of pixels, and give it .width=80 and .height=25 and there you are. Activate that form, and then run your FPD2.x app. I did that once during a lunch break, even added a background picture to the form. Looked nice... and DOSlike.
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>>>I did not know that foxel thing. I'll try that with _Screen. If it would be easy. It will be excellent!!!... Running that old dos application with a big customer beginned so hard nowadays. There are a lot of problems with new technologies. If it'll work you would be saved me with a big trouble... :)
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>>_screen I wouldn't recommend - your setting of font to a monospaced may be overridden at any time (by yourself, by getting a wrong foxuser table, anything), and all your say/gets would get lost in the top left corner.
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>>With a form you give it some isolation, so your user can move it anywhere and you can actually use a larger font so it looks more or less dos-like. You have more control, and you can keep the form not resizable, or change the fontsize as the form is resized - lots of ways to do it the way you want.
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>Will my application accepts run in a main form? There would be some activate screen commands.
Haven't tried Code References on a 2.x pjx file, but you may just convert a copy of it and run code references on that, and replace activate screen with show window (mainform.name) or some such. Also if you want to do a build, you may rename all your spr files into prg, and include them in the project, while removing all the scx files from it - so it won't keep offering to convert them into the dreadful read-mode-emulate converted forms.