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Bookmarks in VFP stopped working
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05/03/2013 07:28:23
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Installation, Setup and Configuration
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows Server 2003
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01567347
Message ID:
01567435
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26
>>>I don't really remember when this stopped working, but the alt+f2 simply doesn't work anymore, nor does the rightclick+ToggleBookmark. I know I've zapped some bloated tables in home(), I only wish I knew which ones does this depend on. Adding tasklist shortcuts also doesn't work.
>>>
>>>It still works in VFP8.
>>>
>>>Along the same lines, ctrl+u still lowercases selected text, but ctrl+shift+u doesn't uppercase it anymore. I've recently reinstalled everything, when I switched to W7 (and this also doesn't work in VFP8).
>>>
>>>Any clues?
>>>
>>>update: and I found a copy of foxtask.dbf in an archive folder, appended from it into my home()+"foxtask.dbf" and now it works. Go figure. ctrl+shift+u still doesn't.
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>>Bookmarks/tasks in VFP have been a joke from the beginning.
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>True, but in some cases I found good use of what it does do. I need to mark a few places in a long prg and keep them for maybe one hour, so I can flip between these places quickly. And yeah, having to move them as I insert or delete lines makes them very temporary.

This is a hack but what I do in those circumstances is insert a special character string (I use ///) on lines I want to bookmark, then use Search to jump between them. My own code has become shorter and shorter methods, so bookmarks aren't needed, but sometimes I wind up doing maintenance work on PRGs / procedures that are hundreds or even thousands of lines long.
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