I have 2 forms running in Visual FoxPro 9 SP1.   One form is running some
coding which may take awhile to finish.  Another form has coding in the
Activate event.  If I click on the 2nd form, does the Activate event of the
2nd form fires before the coding in the 1st form finish?

i want to convert foxpro 2.6 exe file to foxpro2.6 program file.
regards.

In a prior thread (which seems to have died out) it was suggested that I use
this command to get the internet time:
oie=createobject("InternetExplorer.Application")
But, on Vista Home Edition, it seems to give an error even as the

I am in a situation where I have to add an object to a page IF  the
object does not exist. How do I check if an object exists on a page or
not?

I'm following an online tutorial and ran into this.
what does
RETURN EXTRACT(lcHTML,"N=",CHR(13),CHR(10))
do?

I'm sorry, I meant to say  date field (inspection date)that has data
in it. However, I am not looking for any particular data, just any
data.
JPC

I am trying to create a form for intake process. This involves
capturing info on family members. Depending on the number of family
members, the Pageframe1.pagecount is changed so on the fly I have as
many pages as number of members in family.

I have been wondering about this for some time, and have done some
research but have not found anything that says it is possible.
Does anyone know if this can be done / how this can be done?
Thanks,

We currently use the MSCOMM object in VFP6 to communicate with serial ports.
We also use FLL's we have developed in C that use the standard comm
libraries to communicate with serial ports at that level if the application
warrants it. A lot of what we do is moving away from serial ...

I need to make an access "copy" of a VFP database. The copy should be made
without any user intervention except naming the database. What would be the
preferred method to accomplish this task? Anyone that has an example?

In glancing through the help files, I saw a reference that I have ever
noticed before and would like some information on it if anybody has it.
under ALTER TABLE -SQL Command, the FIELDTYPE parameter references the
FIELDTYPE P datatype Picture.

On a form I have put two OLE containers with MAPIMESSAGE and MAPISESSION. In
a button click() I have the following code:
THISFORM.Session1.signon
THISFORM.Message1.sessionid = THISFORM.Session1.sessionid

Hi,.
My XP Home CDROM is scratched and it won't install.
Obviously I've got the product key for it, is it possible to obtain a
replacement CDROM from Microsoft? (without having to pay for a new full XP/

We have a Fox DOS application running on XP workstations with the
network running windows server 2000 and 2003 on the servers.
We continually get internal consistency errors crashing the program
and leaving a data table (always a DIFFERENT ONE) in a state that will

In VFP 7.0 how can I get all the buttons in an Option group' aligned
horizontally. I cannt seem to find the relevant property to manipulate
this layout.
Shah