>>Hehe, I suppose that is a minor concern, compared with all the money lost to inflation.
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>I didn't see any benefit of low inflation yet. We are in an economic stagnation. In high inflation our economy was more lively.
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>>Anyway, the InputMask might be changed dynamically, for example, storing them in a text file, or DBF, and assigning them to TextFields that hold currency data, in the Init() Event. If you didn't do it already, I would create a class for currency data; this allows you to do global changes and corrections easily.
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>my %90 of programs are based on dos and I didn't use a variable based picture in those. :(
Ah, that makes it more complicated. No classes with inheritance, and no properties that are easily accessed. Are you planning to change your systems to Visual FoxPro? I know that it requires better hardware than the DOS version, so that might be a problem in some cases.
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