I did this on just basic objects just to test and it will work, but for the long term, there are a few properties of the dbmemo that are not common to the dbedit control that would be orphaned in the description in sys_forms3.
So for my money unless you were going to change everything except TOP LEFT and WIDTH of the dbmemo to a basic description of dbedit, I would NOT do this as I don't know what problems it might cause at some future time. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Javier > Valencia > Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 2:39 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > 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] <mailto:rbase- > [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
