>I am using vfp 6.0 sp3.
>I discovered a 'feature' which i think is a pain in the ....
>I have set by default settings to ' date=british, deleted=on' under tools, and pressed the 'set as default' button, which is supposed to write information to the windows registry (in help file).
>I know from my readings that some set commands are relative to the datasession but I would have thought that when a private datasession was created it recieve the defaults from the registry entries for VFP. This however is not the case. It defaults to American date and deleted is off, this is not a good thing when developing in Australia or other countries that use non american dates.
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>Has anybody got a great solution for this one, and if anybody from microsoft is listening can this be put on the wish list as this is annoying........
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>TIA

Develop a method or procedure that can be called from the .BeforeOpenTables event of each form with a private datasession. We have one called SetFormEnvironment and it sets several of those environment variables required for each private datasession.

Steve