While this is purely speculation on my part I believe the reason the VFP team made the default .F. was to save memory and avoid loading any un-necessary dlls.
The reason is because in order to have form tooltips when programming to the Windows API (as VFP must do internally), you have to initialize the windows common controls, which basically calls and loads Comctl32.dll if needed (and maybe others?) into memory. This must be done first, even if you never end up using tooltips. When you set this property in VFP to .T., it no doubt does this for you internally, which would be a waste of memory if you never end up using the functionality. That's my best guess anyway as to why the default is .F. -Steve At 11:23 AM 5/2/2007, Derek Kalweit wrote: >Why is "ShowTips" default to false for forms? This seems silly to me. >Any other silly defaults in VFP that you can think of? > > >-- >Derek > > [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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
