Windows XP System Call

[SmittyUSN1 at aol.com]

Fellow fp fanatic's,
 
I applied a simple fp command today in some input.prc on a customer   that 
had  requested the ability to show a Picture and Text attached to a  filePro 
record. He was so impressed with filePro that I thought I would  share it with 
the list,  I am sure some of you have already done  this.  Sometimes the 
simplest things are the greatest.
 
Customer has a new  Sony PC w/Windows XP Media Center OPS and filePro  5.0, I 
simply put a field in his customer record that contains the complete  
address/path.
 
 A real field on his main input screen,  
   "Name of  field"  68                  "complete  path"
Customer Media Location:    c:\customers\joeblow
 
                                            if: 68 ne ""
In his input.prc I put:     @keyv  then: system  "start explorer.exe"<68 
 
He then put 8  asst. jpg type pictures of his customers landscaping  job in a 
 windows directory named C:\customers\joeblow  <---identifying above 
customer.  He further used MS Word to generate a  document describing the details of 
the customers landscape job.  He used  the  "filmstrip" view in windows and 
upon pressing "V" while resting on the  customers record he is presented w/a 
beautiful window of the customers pictures  and a  word document that can be 
edited simply and saved. 
 
This was so simple and beautiful that I thought I would share with the  list. 
 I think that this will work with all XP versions.  Perhaps  there are even 
more "system" calls that we could use to impress our  fp  customers.
 
Wayne Smith
Port Orange, Florida  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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