Many years ago I was working at a Horse Racing newspaper here in NYC (long story short - in the end I was at the Racing Form).
Early on, I had been working on a system that was initially created in Foxbase+, and then later I was in charge of overseeing the conversion to FoxPro for DOS. During all that time - we were obviously working in the old DOS looking screens of white character text on blue backgrounds. However, at some point - when we moved to FoxPro for Windows - I remember that I had taken some program that was basically DOS based - and did really nothing more than recompile & run under FoxPro for Windows - and the screen immediately looked graphical. If I remember right, it was black text on a grey background. But, for the life of me - I don't remember what I did so that it would have that graphical look - without doing any program re-writes! Well, where I work now - if you can believe - we still have all these systems running - although under Windows and compiled in VFP7 - yet they still have the old style text looking interface - with white letter on a blue background. Now they have a possible new client - and are considering (if this can be believed) - using an even OLDER version of their system - for use with this new customer. But, the woman at the co. who is more tech savvy than the older folks that own the co. - my boss feels she may look at an old looking style blue screens of ours - and get turned off by the system. So - I am wondering if there is a way to convert the screens to look graphical - like I was able to do many years ago. But, I just don't remember what I did for that to occur. I was curious if anyone here knows what I am talking about - and what the trick might be to getting that graphical look - without recoding the system! TIA! -K- --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ 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/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a1405578...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** 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.
