I HAVE A MULTI USER FORM WITH A GRID ON IT.  WHEN I TRY TO
APPEND BLANK TO ADD A NEW RECORD I GET A "ATTEMPTING TO
LOCK", "FILE IN USE ERROR". I HAVE RECORD BUFFERING SET TO
NONE. MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF THE FORM ARE RUNNING.  IF I

I use VFP7. I have a top level form and top level menu.
A form is displayed for each meu item. I run a programme
to release the displayed form when another menu item is
chosen.

Is there any way to have different colored items in a listbox? The listbox
is connected to an alias. In the alias there is a logical variable. What I
want to do is have the item in the listbox one color if this variable is
true and another color if it's false. Is there any way of ...

I'm looking for a way to use a textbox class (or any third party class that
will allow this) to auto-copy any word clicked on to the windows clipboard,
or to a variable.
Basically, I'm working on a way to navigate through records by passing words

I am starting to get a bit more experienced with VFP form design and am
looking for a little standardisation and direction from you veterans out
there please.
I always create subclasses based on the VFP base classes (eg lblBase) for

In my form I wish to have the label's caption to appear with colors
complementary to the "myform.backcolor". Is it possible have it changed
dynamically whenever my form's backcolor changes?
thanks

I have about 3 people who has admin rights.  Is there anyway that I can
prevent them to see foxpro tables ?
Thanks.

We want to add a hyperlink to launch email like we can accomplish with an
editbox and the 'enablehyperlinks' property set to .T.  How can we launch
email the same way?

Having developed in MS Access for many years I have reached a point where I
feel that Access just is't doing it for me any more... Do I hear any
enthusiasm from the Foxpro developers to come and join your camp?? Is the
grass greener or is it much of the same hastle. I would ...

I am selecting some record and saving into cursor.
In the layout, I want to print only if there is something otherwise skip or
print blank.
I have 2 questions:

Anyone having problems with checkboxes with alignment set
to Right?  I have them on my form (VFP8.sp1, btw), and if
set to Align Left, all is great.  If I set to align Right,
align them that way, when I reopen the form, they are

I get a not a table error when I try to open a form.  This
has happened in the past when the computer was shutdown
with the form open.  In this case multiple forms were
effected and none were open (there was a power failure).

I am pretty sure I know the answer to this, but a
customer of mine is curious (he is assisting with the
development of a program).
We load a form that accesses a table for maintenance.  

I have come to lots of dead ends trying to accomplish the following:
Suppose that I have an editbox with a memo field as the control source.  The
box is approximately four lines high (Height=65) and has width=265.  I would
like to limit the user's ability to add more than 4 lines.  ...

I have inherited a large application, and the new forms I add to the
project all have the status bar show - db alias, current rec/total
recs, etc..   I thought I could turn this off by issuing:
SET STATUS OFF