VFP 9 has some, for me, irritating behaviours. How do I:

1) turn off the history in the command window? (I like a clean start
when I start up.)

2) turn off the command completion? (I know what I want to type. VFP
adding "helpful" bits causes trouble.)

3) turn off the changing of my text? (I do not want capitalised
keywords spelled in full and displayed in blue. I want what I type.)

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.

We'll get you into the 20th century yet. ;-)

Gene Wirchenko wrote:
Set _command.prg to be read-only.

You should find this in the Home(7) folder.

Tools -> Intellisense Manager

See above.

Colors are controlled in Tools -> Options -> Editor.

I'm wondering why you upgraded, though. It's like buying a fantastic new car
and immediately replacing the engine with a 20-year-old engine.

Dan

"Dan Freeman" <spam (AT) microsoft (DOT) com> wrote:

[snip]

No, it is having a way that works get disrupted by something new.

I find that auto-completion is an fantastic way to enter errors
into what I type. I pass on that. I would also rather know that I
made an error than find a bug later that is due to sabotage^Whelp.

YMMV.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.

Gene, I know it may be hard to teach an old dog new tricks, but stop
fighting it.

Once you get used to intelisense, you'll wonder how you ever got along
without it. The only "gotcha" that bothered me was the adding of the "TO "
keyword, which can be turned off (Tool/Intelisense Manager/Advanced tab/Edit
Properties button/lEnableFullSetDisplay). Many other preferences can be
changed by tweaking these values, but I think you need to give them a chance
before you turn things off en-mass.

--
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP


"Gene Wirchenko" <genew (AT) ocis (DOT) net> wrote

Gene Wirchenko schrieb:
guaranteed to be adrenaline high.

At first I was mostly negative as well, but I adapted within a few days.
That *does* include the tendency to swear after blindtyping
"set filter to blah " <enter>
and finding vfp doesn't like the
"set filter to to blah " <enter> acutally in the command window <bg>.

But all in all it enhances speed...

regards

thomas

Thomas Ganss
<tganss_at_t_dash_online_dot_de-remove-all-after-first-real-dash (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
wrote:

Sorry, but I have already used it in other products. I do not
like it.

I was maintaining a spreadsheet of duties for a Toastmasters
International club. It got nasty when one club member's name was the
start of another's. That introduced errors that I had to correct.

It is easier to correct my errors only. I know the sorts of
errors that I am likely to make.

That is exactly the sort of nonsense that I am referring to.

Not for me.

I also turn off a lot of Word's help, because it actually gets in
the way. I have lost hours to Word's so-called AutoCorrection that
made otherwise-correct things wrong, that is, until I figured out how
to turn it all off. It was difficult to find how to turn off the
automatic bullet list creation. After all, what I was doing was
correct. Why would I think to look under "AutoCorrect"?

Take care not to become the tool of your tools.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.

"Dan Freeman" <spam (AT) microsoft (DOT) com> wrote


Clearly not! I'm suprised he risks it by still using a keyboard ---
those punchcards are so much more precise - your fingers can't possibly get
crossed and the keyboard types the wrong thing and then you're stuck with
the keyboard's error. So, I turn off the keyboard "correction" of my
punchcards and go back to my more precise method. I've also quit using a
dictionary because I should just remember the word instead of using this
tool -- what if I look up the wrong word? This imprecise dictionary could
cause me to be a tool of the tool. Finally, I've quit using a thermostat in
my house. I don't want some computer telling me what temperature it is --
what if it corrects it too high or too low?

"Ginger Estherskip" <barkly (AT) 127 (DOT) 0.0.1> wrote:

Time travel?

Did you know that keypunch machines have keys?

A valid point (whether you intended that or not).

Yes, that is a danger:

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

-- http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1915/chequer.html and
probably others

I rewrote one myself and had *every* word a misuse.

You mean you do not have a backup?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.

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"Gene Wirchenko" <genew (AT) ocis (DOT) net> wrote

FWIW, I also had many of the same complaints. But I have since come to
appreciate these new features, and now I miss them when I work with VFP6.



"Gene Wirchenko" <genew (AT) ocis (DOT) net> wrote