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38209 VFP 9 SP2 Help File

The Visual FoxPro 9 SP2 Help file corrected, supported, and enhanced.

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Project Manager: Francis Faure

Ownership transfer of the VFP 9 SP2 Help file source code and rights to change from Microsoft to VFP Community via Creative Commons licensing.

What are the goals of this project?
1) Provide corrected VFP 9 SP2 Help file to the VFP Community. Corrections to the Help file include corrected index, corrected hyperlinks, and corrected stylesheet.

2) Allow the VFP Community to further enhance the Help file moving forward, adding missing content for VFP 9 SP2 and Sedna, making necessary corrections to existing examples, and repairing additional things missing in the index (like the SYS() functions).




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History:
  • February 16 2009 Version 1.04
  • February 18 2009 Version 1.05
Added in index :
PADL() -> "PADL( ) | PADR( ) | PADC( ) Functions"
PADR() -> "PADL( ) | PADR( ) | PADC( ) Functions"
PADC() -> "PADL( ) | PADR( ) | PADC( ) Functions"
all the "SYS(....)"
all the "How To: ..."
Added in aLink Keywords
HELP PADL -> "PADL( ) | PADR( ) | PADC( ) Functions"
HELP PADR -> "PADL( ) | PADR( ) | PADC( ) Functions"
HELP PADC -> "PADL( ) | PADR( ) | PADC( ) Functions"
HELP ERROR -> "Error Messages Listed Alphabetically"
+ "Error Messages Listed Numerically"
HELP SYS -> "SYS( ) Functions Overview"
HELP LIST -> "LIST Commands" + "List Propert"
HELP CLEAR -> "CLEAR Commands" + "Clear Method"
HELP CD -> "CD | CHDIR Command"
HELP CHDIR -> "CD | CHDIR Command"
HELP MD -> "MD | MKDIR command"
HELP MKDIR -> "MD | MKDIR command"
HELP RD -> "RD | RMDIR command"
HELP RMDIR -> "RD | RMDIR command"
HELP GO -> "GO | GOTO Command"
HELP GOTO -> "GO | GOTO Command"
Changed in aLink Keywords
HELP UPDATE -> Before on "UPDATE Command" -> now on "UPDATE SQL"
HELP INSERT -> Before on "INSERT Command" -> now on "INSERT SQL"
HELP DELETE -> "DELETE Command" + "DELETE SQL"
HELP SELECT -> "SELECT Command" + "SELECT SQL"
Added in index (popup list choice)
ComboBox control -> "ComboBox Control Properties, Methods, and Events"
CheckBox control -> "CheckBox Control Properties, Methods, and Events"
Last edited Jun 24 at 7:30 AM by craigsboyd, version 6
Comments
toreb Feb 16 at 7:39 PM 
Great work, Francis, it's really appreciated. But if the helpfile will be further enhanced, I hope that the SQL commands are given some priority. When I enter HELP SELECT, three topics are found, and shown in a menu, but SQL Select is not one of the choices. Enter HELP UPDATE, and you get "Update command, included for backward compatibility....", and not SQL Update which is most relevant. The same is true for Insert, extremely frustrating. And of course DELETE should give a menu to choose between SQL Delete and VFP Delete.

Faure Feb 16 at 10:16 PM 
Dear Toreb,
Ok: Easy to fix. I add in next beta with proposal of Cathy in "Issue tracker"
(note : I test with the original VFP9sp2 help file : it's the same result ;)
Regards
Francis

rpeduzzi Feb 17 at 1:02 PM 
Wow! What a lot of work. Thank you.
Rick

MikePotjer Feb 18 at 6:56 PM 
This is fantastic! Thank you, Francis. To get a corrected/updated help file only *2 days* after the release of the previous version would have been unthinkable before.

edyshor Mar 7 at 9:56 PM 
Ever sine i replaced the orignal chm file with this one help doens't fire from visual foxpro IDE. I know this is strange but i have no ideea why it doesn't work anymore. It doesn't work F1, nor the "HELP" command. The file is in options -> file locations, set("help") is "On", Set("help",1) is the file, and File(Set("Help",1)) retun .T., but the help doen't work. The path is Home(0). Is somehing broken in this or what ?! I Run WinXP SP3, ad VFP9 SP2 wth PEM Editor and FoxTabs (latest versions). The chm file opens from exporer.

edyshor Mar 9 at 1:04 PM 
I'm sorry, there was a problem on my machine. In case someone else encounters the same problem it can be fixed by running the nex two line in cmd (Start->run->cmd.exe):
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP\foxhhelp9.exe" /regserver
regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VFP\foxhhelpps9.dll"
Althou i can't figure out how they got unregistered.
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