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23/10/2001 15:39:04
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00572149
Message ID:
00572268
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39
>>>>>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 you want it faster, I think you'll have to move into artificial intelligence %).

Jay
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