>Hi there
> I created a form with a Edit Box in it to Emulate Foxpro Command window in my Application. The form is called from
>"Development" menu with "Do form" method.
> The problem is it can't see any varibles I created in the Edit BOx. For example, If I type in the following two commands:
>
>a=5 (press enter)
>?a (press enter)
>
> Then I got error message saying "Variable not found".
> In the form Keypress (Case Keycode=13), I validate the expression then use &lcommand to execute it.
> It works fine on my table sql statements.
>
> I am new to Visual Foxpro. Much appreciated if can help
>
> My Email is wtian@csc.com.au

Daniel,

To my knowledge, what you are trying to do is possible, but I can't for the life of me figure out why you would want to go to the trouble. What you would have to do would be to parse the contents of the edit box on a line by line basis, and feed the values to the VFP engine.

Something along the lines of ;


Determine what text constitutes the last line.
Fetch it into a memory variable or other holding place.
[simple] Macro substitute to execute the command.
[complex] Parse the line looking for keywords, procedure names, function calls etc... and construct a valid command line then macro substitute to make it run.

In a nutshell, this would really be a great deal of work.

Regards,

Jason Tryon

Jason Tryon
Senior Systems Analyst / Technical Lead
eBusiness / iPage