My Thanks to Alan, Fred and Tracy. Box(0,0,633,620) works fine on a New form with Draw mode =13, Draw style=0,Draw width 10.This gives a box that one cant miss seeing.
But on the form I want to put it on, I can now see it loading and then it disappears, with error msg "Must specify additional Parameters" I have established max values for box draw parameters wrt top,left,height and width of form max values wrt physical screen pixels values. Have decided to chuck the original form and start again with a form on which box works. Learned lots about using the interpreter and parameter passing with forms, thanks to your support. The project involves porting inherited VFP, 338 classes and Docs, and mounds of VFP, Clipper and C code. As Stephen remarked in an earlier post; porting previous code has its joys. Actually he was not quite so polite. Many Thanks again. William On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 20:32 +0000, Alan Bourke wrote: > Just created a form in VFP9 and did this in the Init(): > > This.Box(10, 10, 20, 20) > > ... which a boxeen. > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:22 +0000, "william tormey" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all. > > Am trying to use Box(x1,y1,x2n,y2) to draw rectangles on a Forms. > > to outline rolling displays for process parameters. > > > > DG VFP 5.0 says Syntax is Object.Box(----) > > Have tried things like myform.Box(----) as code & in Init > > Thisform.Box(----), but get errors telling me cant find Box > > from the compiler and interpreter. Seem to need to tell the form it > > has a Box method. Don't know how. > > > > The original code for all this used Code page 437 & IBM Vga > > line drawings to do the same. > > > > Dumb I know, but needs must. > > William Tormey > > > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1296731083.2075.32.camel@client ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
