Hi Doug,

Your comments have given me some hints as to where to start exploring these ideas with VFP.

Have you ever seen or used MS Money (to better understand what I was trying to describe)? Have you tried your ideas in a VFP app? I have never seen another Windows app that uses this kind of UI. Either its too difficult to code or not a very popular one with users? IMHO I think it is a very good UI and love it. That explains my desire to try to do something similar in a VFP app :)

Mike.


>Hi Mike.
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>>It appears to me like MS has "webified" a desktop application while keeping all the rich user interface objects that a web page lacks. Does anyone know how this was done?
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>You can do this in VFP by dropping a Microsoft Web Browser ActiveX control on a VFP form (be sure to add NODEFAULT in the Refresh method of the control or you'll get an error). This control can display HTML files by specifying a local filename in a call to the Navigate2 method. For example:

This.oWebControl.Navigate2('file://C:\MyApp\Menu.html')

To display a rich interface, you could either create something using DHTML (which may be a lot of work) or simply overlay a VFP container with the appropriate controls over the Web Browser control. Then, depending on the user's action, just set the Visible property of the Web Browser control and the container to opposite values so only one of them is visible at a time.
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>Hope this helps.
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>Doug