>>>>>>Hi Antonio,
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>>>>>>The only solution to this problem as far as I can see is to use a disabled form (enabled = .F.). You then are able to present a GUI on a form without having the parent form losing focus.
>>>>>>Then the challenge is to make sure mouseclicks and hovering effects work as expected. I can see that work with timers and the good old ON MOUSE CLICK commands, but there definately will be work involved in that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Walter,
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>>>>>In FoxyClasses dtControl (Date, Datetime or Time) I used DateTimePicker activex to overcome that problem and it works wonderfully well.
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>>>>I did look at that class in the past, but does not now have the same problem of the outdated GUI and problematic in grids ?
>>>>
>>>>Walter,
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>>> Sorry I don't understand? Any UI in VFP is outdated, no?
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>>Not necessarily. There is a lot you can do to upgrade your VFP applications' GUI.
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>>The DateTime ActiveX control has a fixed 3D border that look 90-ties. At least a flat border (or none) where you can control the border colour would be a huge improvement.
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>>Walter,
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>No I don't touch its appearance, anyone who wants to use can him\herself.
>I have yet to see a VFP GUI that is not outdated.

We are using commandbars from Alexei Grigorev: www.arg.kirov.ru . Its good enough for us and way better that what VFP has out of the box. Unfortunately there is no calendar dropdown

Of course you still can say its not like a modern interface, but this library will take you a long way.





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>(Actually just this week I attempted to create one using HTML5 and material design but came empty, because the browser in VFP (Shell.Explorer) cannot handle it :( )