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22/02/1999 18:12:50
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Visual FoxPro
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00190072
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>Wayne / All
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>My company is currently running Terminal Server with citrix Metaframe as an add on for DOS based PC's.
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>To quote from a KB article re: Citrix WinFrame: (ver. prev. to MetaFrame)
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>"Visual FoxPro does not perform like a true Windows application because it does not utilize basic Windows primitives to create it's screen display. When FoxPro places a box onto the screen, it actually draws the box"
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>The article then describes some screen guidelines to overcome these "ill-behaved painting issues" such as limiting screen colors, limit actions to 25% of the active screen area....
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>From testing done here form refresh etc. with VFP via terminal server is slow!
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>My real question is, Has anyone out there developed apps. running under terminal server and how have you overcome these speed issues ?
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>Thanks
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>Brendan

I have run our VFP5 application through a terminal server here, and it performed well - actually ran faster through the server than running on my local machine.
There was no problem at all with the drawing of screens.

Wayne
Wayne Myers, MCSD
Senior Consultant
Forte' Incorporated
"The only things you can take to heaven are those which you give away" Author Unknown
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