>Still. I'd like to look into it a bit, perhaps as a low-end alternative. Can you direct me to any further documentation on how to use HTML input forms with Foxpro? Are we talking about Active Server Pages? (
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Nope, basically, you are automating the browser control. The best place I have seen info about this is in Rick Strahls book about using IE for your interface.

>Many of the controls are combo boxes whose lists are filled from an SQL select. However, the rowsource and rowsourcetype are not set until the field gets focus. I think this means we are already doing that.
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A Ha... this is a place you may be able to pick up some major savings. Populating combos and lists is VERY time consuming. You may want to build a pulldown grid control. Basicsally, this control uses a textbox and a button. When the user presses the button you instantiate a grid which actually looks like and is placed in the place where the grid would go. I have seen examples of this in the book 1001 Things you can do with VFP. I think I have also seen it other places. Since the text box doesn't need it's list filled, the more of these you replace, the mosre time you will cut of instatiating this form.

>The idea here is to show the user something which looks like a certain, standard government form. We've broken it up into three pages which is about as far as it can go.
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Well, that makes sense. Are you using scrolling forms? IF so, you may want to do away with that and create your own scrolling interface. This may be a bit more light weight than the scrollbar form.

>Bob, thank you very very much for your thoughful contributions.
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>Jack

Happy to help.
BOb