A suggestion

[Richard Kreiss]

Some of you may have done this already by I have a suggestion which make coding easier.

I have a directory (folder) I call sub. I keep small program routines (processing table) here and import them when I need to use the code.  One example is on I call tabs, I use this one to control which field a left tab, arrow, up arrow, etc moves the cursor to.  This is especially true when this is a "must fill" field handled in programming at @wlfxx.

I have an @once routine which I need to use in all programs for one client which checks if the user has permission to run this type of program. It consists of 10 line of code I don't constantly have to rewrite and I can easily load it from any filePro file.

For those old time filePro programmers, I have a copy of the "zoom" routine which predates the browse llookup.

I also have a routine I used when computers were very slow.  It creates a "thermometer" type display so the user could see that records were being processed.  The 2 places I used this were for outputs so the user had an idea of where the program was and about how long the output would take.  The other place was with a browse lookup which used a drop.  This routine lept the user from thinking the program got "hung up".  With today's computers this routine is almost unnecessary.  I could add this programming to that output which process a few million records.

I do have a routine similar to the one Ken showed a long time ago, which allows for the resizing of a memo window once it is open in I-U mode on a record.

One other handy program I wrote is one I call "viewer".  This is a filePro program which allows me to view a processing table (ASCII) when you have exceeded your development license value.  I had this problem on my laptop when I had only a single user development license.  This is written for windows and uses Notepad to display the processing table. If you are accustomed programming with a text editor, the processing table can be edited.  This is especially handy if you need a global search and replace routine which is missing from the filePro editor.

Richard




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