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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:
00572263
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33
>>>>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.
>
Yes, this is what I was doing so far and seem to continue doing :)
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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