Please excuse my newness to Microsoft Visual FoxPro.
There is a little column in a database file and it is sometimes black and
sometimes not.
Is this like an active flag or something for data rows?? Black meaning it is

Out of curiousity, does anyone know how to get Foxpro to use the
standard Windows font for form labels, textboxes etc without having to
manually set the font as such? ie. If the app is running under XP,
then form objects will display using Tahoma (for example) or if

I cannot get the tooltips in grid headers to show up.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong. (VFP9SP2)
If I cannot fit enough text in the header I would like to use the tooltips
to show additional information.

I asked a question earlier where I would like to check if an external app
(non-foxpro) is running as was given the code below to place in a function.
It works great and detects if an app is running however, when I close the
other app, and do a test to see if it still running, ...

In a project having some big readonly tables I build a DLL including this
tables with a class to open them. This DLL is called mdata.DLL
All was fine working in the VFP IDE but when I build the main project in
which these tables are used I realized that the exe file is very big ...

I am trying to help a friend who is a developer.  She is on version 9,
and has service pack 2.  She is running on Vista.  Any way her text on
the screen looked like it was "melting" for lack of a better term.
I've had her run a virus scan.  It had none.  The text on the left

I have a table for different engine parts were the date of the last overhaul
of a particular part is entered
Something like:
1. engine1;  unit1; some details...; date1

There are a couple of prgs that I have to remember to run before creating
the exe - e.g. initialising some tables that are stored R/O within the exe.
I have never done anything with project hooks before, but believe that this
is the way I should do this. Can somebody point me to a ...

I have started passing data back and forth from Foxpro and Outlook's
Contacts.  The only problem is that I do not know all the names of the
fields in Outlook's Contact section. ie. the attached picture file, the
notes field...

How can I rename tables in a dbc so that the disk name and the dbcname are
updated and the backlink unbroken?

My scenario:
application's exe (vfp9) running from a file server, on 30 computers and
there are also 10 sessions of terminal server who run on another server (not
the file server). The users of the 10 sessions are 3 miles away from both

My machine crashed, so I'm setting up a new machine with my dev environment.
I've never had a problem with VFP finding my VSS installation before, but I
do now.  I have VSS installed, I can see it in the registry, it's hooked up
the project and I can use the VSS environment just ...

I have a form(form A)(vfp8)
the only thing on this form is an animated gif.  In the activate event I
call another form(formB) at that point the gif is no longer active.  How can
I keep the gif moving while the other form is loading?

Group,
We need to use Http Post to send a file (I have Zero experience with it)
from vfp 6 to an electronic medical claims site for processing. They sent me
the 'parameters', etc. but after googling for info, I found no examples of

I am trying to attend South West Fox conference in Arizona in October, and
one of the sponsors is Sybase. Does anybody have got an experience with
their Advantage Database Server? Does it replace SQL Server? Pros? Cons?
Walter