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23/10/2001 15:27:16
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00572149
Message ID:
00572253
Views:
31
>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>When I need to create a form based on some table I use the following trick:
>>>
>>>1) I place table in DE (when I'm done, I remove it, because I always prefer to open them programatically).
>>>
>>>2) I drag and drop fields.
>>>
>>>3) I rename labels, fields, set autosize for labels to .t.
>>>
>>>4) I open form as a table and change classes from base classes to my classes.
>>>
>>>3 and 4 are tedious... I probably can adjust field mappings in Option/Tools, but I don't want to make them permanently, because my classes could change, etc.
>>>
>>>Do you know another trick to simply create forms?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Nadya --
>>
>> Can you use "Field Mapping" on the "Options" page under tools? Haven't used them myself, as I've used other methods of building forms, but thought that might work for you.
>>
>> Jay
>
>I did it once before then we used M drive. We lately moved all work to G drive, but somehow M was still referenced... So, I decided against this...

You could always do a series of REPLACES on the form as a table:
REPLACE ALL CLASS with "ourLabel", ; 
     CLASSLOC with "G:\ourClass\ourStdClasses" ;
     FOR CLASS = "label"
*   etc.
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