>>Does this mean that it would also do this on the end-user's machines after an install?
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>>Joe
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>>>>Greetings!
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>>>>Apparently, there is an OCX available from Microsoft that allows forms to be scrollable when they are too long to fit on a page. Has anyone heard of this? If so, where can I get it?
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>>>I believe if you install VB from Visual Studio, the Horizontal and Vertical scrollbars from Microsoft will be installed on your machine. Also, check out
www.activeX.Com - its a great resource for controls.
> Or, just wait for 'Tahoe'. I have heard that scrollable forms are going to be supported!
The January 1998 FoxPro Advisor has an article about how to create scrollbars as custom classes in VFP.
The article title is: "Add Scrollbars to Visual FoxPro Forms"
by Glen Shaw, Page 56.
I've tried several of the OCXs available and they all have little quirks that make them less than satisfactory. I'm planning to switch to native VFP scroll bars as soon as I have time.
One annoying problem with the OCXs is that they dissappear when the contained window is enlarged or if a modal form is opened over the form containing the OCX. The OCX developer claims that this is a bug in Microsoft's ActiveX support DLLs.
Good Luck...
-Marty Kay-