Hi Tore,

I hadn't used these commands since I moved to VFP a number of years ago so I hadn't noticed this behaviour and it's unlikely I'd have any need to use them again - it was just a quick & dirty utility that I threw together.

I didn't realise that this behaviour had been documented so far back. Thanks for your reply.

Regards,

Liam


>Hi Liam
>
>I think you will find part of your answer in the help file, this is from the @...SAY command: Included for backward compatibility. Use the Label Control to display text and the TextBox Control to display the contents of fields and variables.
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>The old @..SAY..GET commands are still there, but don't use them...! This has been a problem since VFP6, and even back to VFP5 or VFP3. The behaviour difference was documented in some of the earlier versions of VFP.
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>>Hi Plinio,
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>>I'm not getting any error message. It's the result of the command that's unusual.
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>>For example - working from the command windown with Screen.FontName = "Courier New":
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>>@0,0 Say "0123456789" will write that 10 character string to the top-left corner of the screen.
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>>You would image that, in order to clear the first 3 characters, you would type @0,0 Clear to 0,2, wouldn't you? What you have to enter is @0,0 Clear to 1,3.
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>>Regards,
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>>Liam
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>>>I don't see any problem, what error message are you getting?
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>I haven't used the @ clear or @ say commmands for a few years but I had occasion to use them today. Perhaps this is an old one or has been reported before but I haven't seen it mentioned.
>>>>
>>>>Version : VFP8 (Haven't tested on any other version)
>>>>Command : @ x1,y1 Clear To x2,y2
>>>>Problem : The co-ordinates x1,y1 are zero-based, the x2,y2 co-ordinates are 1-based
>>>>
>>>>The same problem applies to @ x1,y1 Fill To x2,y2. However, @ x1,y1 To x2,y2 Scroll seems to be fine.
>>>>
>>>>Is there a reason for this or is this a bug?
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>
>>>>Liam