The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

September 1998

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Developer Support News Watch September 7, 1998

Visual Studio 6.0 is here, and MSDN has all the details

MSDN has a huge package of fresh technical articles, interviews, code samples, and other information about Microsoft’s new tools suite. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/ newsfleatureNS6release/

The product sites have also been updated with a new look and lots of new information for the Visual Studio 6.0 rollout:

Visual Studio 6.0: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/

Visual Basic 6.0: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasicI

Visual C+~±: http:/In.sdn.micro.~cft.comA’k~uaIc/

Visual FoxPro: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxprol

Visual lnterDev: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vinterdevl

Visual J++: http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualjI

Visual SourceSafe 6.0: http://msdn.microsoft.com/ssafeI

Developer Support News Watch - September 7, 1998

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FoxPro Q & A

How do I add a checkbox to a column in a grid?

By default, the column in a grid contains a textbox. To replace the textbox with a checkbox

1. Right click on the grid and select the Properites optior~.

2. In the Properties sheet, select the column in which you want to place the checkbox.

3. Click the Checkbox control on the Form Designer toolbar and then click over the textbox in the required column in the Form Design sheet. Checki should now appear under that column in the Properties sheet.

4. Change the column’s CurrentControl property to Checki.

How can I delete multiple files at one time from a FoxPr4 dire ctoty?

The procedure to delete a number of files using a file skeleton similar to the MS-DOS command, DEL *BAK is given below. Just as for its MS-DOS equivalent, you can pass it a path if the files to be deleted are NOT in the default (current) directory.

PROCEDURE BEGINS

PARAMETERS pathname SET TALK OFF

SET SAFETY OFF Iibactive=.F.

CLEAR

filecount=O filename=SYS(2000,pathname)

IF filecountO

*activate library

SET LIBRARY TO SYS(2004)+’foxtools’ ADDITIVE libactive.T.

ENDIF

DELETE FILE (forcepath(filename, justpath(pathname)))

filecountfilecount+1

filename=SYS(2000,pathname,1)

ENDOO

IF libactive

RELEASE LIBRARY SYS(2004)+’foxtools’

ENDW

? ALLTRIM(STR(filecount)) + Files have been deleted.’ PROCEDURE ENDS

How can I label an invisible button?

To put a title on an invisible button, try the following steps:

1. Define the invisible Push button.

2. Define a Label with the text you want displayed.

3. Drag the Label over the Push button.

4. Select the Label and click on SEND TO BACK in the Object

menu.

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