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April 2007 - Posts

Friday, April 27, 2007 5:31 PM

Fix your forms to paint borders correctly under Vista Aero

Apparently, the borders of some forms don’t get painted correctly on Windows Vista. When executing a Fox Form, Fox asks Windows to create a window, then sets the BorderStyle of the window. Apparently, under Vista Aero (except as Administrator), the BorderStyle
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:28 AM

Foxpro Menu items, combo boxes not refreshing selected item under Aero in Vista

If you’re running a Foxpro application under Vista when using Aero , you might encounter a problem when scrolling through lists, such as intellisense dropdowns, comboboxes, menus. As you move from one item in the list to the next, each item in turn appears
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:13 PM

Why does the component gallery give an error "Error building key for index"?

We received a bug report: STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 1) At the command window, issue the following: Choose Tools->Gallery from the main menu 2) If the Visual FoxPro Catalog isn't open, then open it. Click on that node in the left pane. 3) Using the combo
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Friday, April 13, 2007 2:29 PM

Add a manifest to control your application Vista UAC behavior

Try this on Windows XP or Vista (I don’t remember if manifests are allowed on Win2000: can someone confirm please? Thanks) Start Notepad, then choose File->Open and navigate to c:\windows\system32\notepad.exe and click Open. Hit Ctrl-F to find the
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 1:26 PM

Why doesn't Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet control work?

We received a bug report: Steps to Reproduce : Open the form designer by creating a new form. Insert a an ActiveX control and select "Microsoft Office Spreadsheet 11.0" Actual Results : OLE error code 0x80040202: Unknown COM status code. Expected Results
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