Mike, That is why I said "only obvious if you know" there are lots of little things around that you just seem to grow up with. I date back to Foxbase, Foxbase+ as well as Dbase II in its earliest format so many of the intuitive things I know come from those products and all the "foibles" that they had. In fact I had a modified DBaseII running in full multi user mode (record locking etc) on Concurrent DOS on the ICL PC on 4 workstations each with 4 virtual sessions way before Multiuser Foxbase came out. It involved writing a snap-in type bit of code that accessed the I/O routines in Multi User Concurrent CPM (MUCCPM) at the O/S level in assembler. In fact the last production machine running the software was only retired last year after nearly 25 years service (rough calc), which says an awful lot about the resilience of the product and hardware.
I also ported DBASEII onto the latest micro of the day at the time the Rair Black Box which was taken up by ICL at the time as their dedicated Word Processing machine. We used to run Wordstar, DBASEII and Supercalc2 which satisfied virtually all the users requirements. I think that even in today's world the same thing could be said. Then just before I left ICL/Singer I worked as a lead developer on a product called Logistix which integrated time planning (gannt charts etc) into a Supercalc/visicalc type spreadsheet and was way ahead of its time...so way ahead that it never caught on because the users couldn't visualize the things that could be done within the product. Oh happy days! Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: 18 September 2009 17:19 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: VFP9SP1 -- locking column in grid like in Excel? Dave Crozier wrote: > Not to state the obvious (however, obvious is only so if you already know) > but you can also split the grid into panes by dragging the black space on > the bottom left of the grid to the right. Not obvious to me, Dave...another grid tip that I never knew!!!! WOW. Who'da thought after all this time you'd learn something new about the tool you've used for over a decade? Thanks! -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 [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/884d9cea48b3416fb7a26cfdda587...@develop ** 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.
