Changing VFP menu (during runtime in app) FONT NAME

2019-05-16 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
VFP9SP2 on Win7/8/10 I see in VFP Help that if you're stick building your app's top positioned (not-pop-up) Menu code by hand, it has a FONT clause. However, I use the good ol' fashioned Menu designer (as clunky as it is).  I've introduced the ability for the user to pick the Font s/he wants

Re: Filtering Oddity

2019-05-16 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
Hi Koen, I respectfully disagree.  In my case, I grabbed all of the Server data locally into a cursor, and then I use the SET FILTER on that to show the respective data when appropriate. This is better than repeat trips to the Server via the SQL SELECT.  I'll take that bet every day of the wee

Re: Filtering Oddity

2019-05-16 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 5/15/2019 6:23 PM, Richard Kaye wrote: And here's a use case where SET FILTER can be quite useful in a production application. Let's say you have a form that displays account receivable transactions for a customer (invoices, payments, adjustments, etc.). You want to be able to display only

Re: VFP apps and UPS ShipExec SDK

2019-05-16 Thread Kurt @ Gmail
What you want to do - definitely seems to spark a memory inside my old feeble mind. Maybe I had tried working on something like that some YEARS ago! I can even visualize in my head the circumstance - and I think it was for some client project - and they were doing shipments. But, beyond that -

RE: Filtering Oddity

2019-05-16 Thread Richard Kaye
As Uncle Ted says, you have to test with your typical dataset to determine when a query has more overhead than using VFP's native functionality. Leaving aside the use of "select *", another matter of personal taste 😊, when your table has a relatively small number of rows and columns I'd agree. T

VFP apps and UPS ShipExec SDK

2019-05-16 Thread Philip Borkholder
Hi all, Has anyone worked with the UPS ShipExec SDK .NET Class Library files and a VFP app? I have been presented with a case and I am looking for guidance. Thanks, Philip Borkholder Vicksburg, MI Top Gut Doctor Warns: "Throw Ou

Re: Filtering Oddity

2019-05-16 Thread Koen Piller
Alan, In this case select..into nofilter is according to me not the same as the english no filter, it means 'select again and disregard the previous select' Regards, Koen Op do 16 mei 2019 om 10:49 schreef Alan Bourke : > Depending on the select it might well just be filtering internally anyway,

Re: Filtering Oddity

2019-05-16 Thread Alan Bourke
Depending on the select it might well just be filtering internally anyway, hence the 'nofilter' clause. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 16 May 2019, at 6:26 AM, Koen Piller wrote: > Richard, > what you describe is a matter of personal taste. > There is no overhaed