Javier: Yeah, that is something I could play around with! Going "behind the scenes" and replacing DBMemo with DBText and investigating other differences between the 2 control types...
Karen -----Original Message----- From: Javier Valencia <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 1:41 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Conversion of 6.5 windows forms Karen, If you are daring, you could explore how the fields are structured/defined in the SYS_FORM3 table and then do a global change there. I used this approach to convert speed buttons to enhanced speed buttons when they became available; now there is an option to do just this at the form level, although the global change is still a valid option if you have lots of buttons to convert Javier, Javier Valencia, PE O: 913-829-0888 H: 913-397-9605 C: 913-915-3137 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 11:59 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Conversion of 6.5 windows forms Yes I think that's it! If I bring up the form in windows 6.5, there is a choice of "wrap / keep on one line". Looks like "wrap" is the default because all the fields have it. I think I'll leave the fields as DBMemo for my easier forms, but for the really complicated "important" forms, I might take the time to modify the 6.5 form so they all come over as DBText. Can you think of a reason why DBMemos aren't a good idea? Karen -----Original Message----- From: Dan Goldberg <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 11:50 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Conversion of 6.5 windows forms If I remember there is something like line wraps to turn off in 6.5. Dan Goldberg From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 8:40 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Conversion of 6.5 windows forms Whew, finally got a client to upgrade from windows 6.5 to 9.5... I remember seeing a post about this before but didn't keep the answer. When I convert a form, all the text fields are coming over as DBMemos. It seems to work okay. I cannot enter more characters than the column would allow, so that's good. Is it okay to keep them as DBMemos, any drawbacks? I seem to recall there's something that you can do in 6.5 to modify every field one-by-one so that they DO come over as DBText, but obviously this would be a ton of work that I'd rather not do if DBMemos would function okay. Any drawback to keeping as DBMemo, or remember what to do in 6.5 to ensure it's converted as a DBText? Karen
