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James - You raise a very valid point about the Return key being a throwback to the old DOS days... and ironically that was what I was originally trying to achieve. This particular application evolved from and old DOS app and I was trying to keep the keystroke routine similar to what the users were a...

I have a problem trying to figure out why a TButton control on a dialog does not respond to the Enter/Return keypress as I would expect whenever the button has focus. As I move from one TGet control to the next using the Enter/Return key, I eventually land on the TButton control, but pressing Enter/...

The only third party libraries being used are:

Comix RDD 3.0
Funcky 6.0
Protection Plus 4.05
NetLib 6.5

Would these need to be upgraded as well?

- Steve

So... all my other software tools will still be compatible? Also, what sort of changes would have to be made that would take about two weeks. Would that be changes to the source code, or changes to the make/link scripts, or...?

- Steve

I've been supporting & enhancing a business application for many years now that evolved from DBase to Clipper to FiveWin, and am now looking at the next transition that will enable it to run successfully on current Windows platforms (XP, Vista, etc.). It is basically just a database program that...

hua - Thanks for the tip about emf.dll... that appears to be why I didn't get the results I was hoping for. After copying emf.dll into the application folder (or even the Windows folder), the reports do indeed behave properly when zooming in. Many thanks! The only issue I ran into with linking in th...

Many thanks for the suggestion. I gave it a try but it didn't seem to solve the problem.

- Steve

My apologies for being out of the loop for the last several years, but I have a problem with an application written in FW 1.9.5. Whenever I try to zoom in on a landscape report that I'm previewing, the text overlaps in various places and is impossible to read. Similar reports set for portrait mode s...