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Custom controls on the VFP toolbarOne of the great strengths of Visual Foxpro is the way that you can so easily subclass the base controls and build your own class library of custom controls. Usually you will have this class library in the Classes tab of the Project Manager and you will drag the class from there to the Form Designer in order to add that control to the form. Sometimes though this is not possible. Perhaps you want to replace all the buttons on the standard toolbar with your own controls in order to enforce a standard look and feel across the application. Perhaps you want to add one of your controls to a grid and the drag-and-drop from a class library will not work into a grid. You need to add your classes to the standard VFP Form Controls toolbar. Use the button on the Form Controls toolbar:
Select modifications ) but the tooltip shows a new cmdClose button. from the menu that drops down. A file selection dialog will appear showing the VFP visual class libraries. Navigate to your class library and click the button to display the classes from this library on the toolbar. The screenshot below shows part of the toolbar for one of our libraries. It replicates all the standard controls (with some
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The textbox class in Visual FoxPro 9 has a new Autocomplete
property which shows the user the previous values that have
been entered in that textbox.
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