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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00964110
Message ID:
00964407
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Hi Terry,

Very important observation. Basically, I just changed this text yesterday, because I didn't like what it was before. Since I am not a native speaker, I might be wrong... I will probably change it again using one of your suggestions.

Thanks a lot.

>Hi Nadya
>
>Sorry i can't help you with the problem, as I don't have/use GridHighlighter.
>I'm interested in the wording in your message box:
>
>> =messagebox("You can not clone a record while you haven't saved your changes!",48,'Clone function is
>
>I would have said:
>"You cannot clone a record until you have saved your changes!"
>or:
>"You must save your changes before you can clone a record ".
>
>I was wondering if this was a more American way of saying the same thing. Or is it a result of the fact that, in VFP, we don't have a Do ... UNTIL construct, only a Do ... WHILE, so the programmer's brain gets into the mindset of "while this condition is not true give them this message" rather than "give them this message until this condition is true" :-)
>
>Terry
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.


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