The extensive Application Development Framework that makes Microsoft Visual FoxPro Development easy! VISUAL EXTEND 9.5 English User Manual dFPUG c/o ISYS GmbH Uwe Habermann, Venelina Jordanova Visual Extend 9.0 User Manual More productive than ever before! Page 2 Copyright Visual Extend is a product from dFPUG c/o ISYS GmbH. Any reuse of VFX related material needs the written permission of dFPUG c/o ISYS GmbH; also VFX related publications must have the copyright notice of dFPUG c/o ISYS GmbH. Note This user manual has identical content as the user manual for Visual Extend 9.0. All differences between the versions VFX 9.0 and VFX 9.5 as well as new features of VFX 9.5 are described in the document VFX95WhatIsNew. Visual Extend 9.0 User Manual More productive than ever before! Page 3 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................... 7 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. BASED ON VISUAL FOXPRO 9.0................................................................................................ 7 THE COMBINATION THAT MAKES IT: ALL IN ONE...................................................................... 7 EVEN MORE PRODUCTIVE WITH NEW BUILDERS IN VISUAL EXTEND 9.5 !.................................... 8 2. QUICK OVERVIEW................................................................................................................ 10 2.1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................... 10 2.1.1. Installation................................................................................................................... 10 2.1.2. VFX Task Pane ............................................................................................................ 10 2.1.3. VFX - Application Wizard ............................................................................................ 11 2.2. FUNCTIONALITY OF THE NEW APPLICATION............................................................................ 12 2.2.1. Usage........................................................................................................................... 12 2.2.2. Standard toolbar .......................................................................................................... 12 2.2.3. Open-Dialog ................................................................................................................ 12 2.2.4. Forms .......................................................................................................................... 13 2.2.5. User's management ...................................................................................................... 13 2.2.6. Error tracking.............................................................................................................. 14 2.2.7. Database Tools ............................................................................................................ 14 2.2.8. About Dialog ............................................................................................................... 14 2.3. CREATING A FORM WITH THE VFX ­ FORM WIZARD .............................................................. 15 2.4. VFX ­ DATA ENVIRONMENT BUILDER................................................................................... 15 2.5. THE VFX - FORM BUILDER ................................................................................................... 16 2.6. THE VFX - CGRID BUILDER.................................................................................................. 16 2.7. TEST .................................................................................................................................... 16 3. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 17 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................................... 17 SPECIFICS OF APPLICATIONS CREATED USING VISUAL EXTEND ................................................ 17 KEY FEATURES FOR DEVELOPERS........................................................................................... 18 4. INCLUDED TOOLS ................................................................................................................. 21 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. VFX ­ CLASS LIBRARIES...................................................................................................... 21 VFX ­ WIZARDS AND BUILDERS ........................................................................................... 21 VFX DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS ............................................................................... 22 OTHER DEVELOPER TOOLS.................................................................................................... 22 VFX 9.5 TASK PANE............................................................................................................. 22 5. INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................... 24 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. HARDWARE- AND SOFTWARE- REQUIREMENTS....................................................................... 24 THE VFX INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................... 24 REGISTRATION AND ACTIVATION OF VFX 9.5......................................................................... 25 SETUP THE VISUAL FOXPRO ENVIRONMENT FOR VFX ............................................................ 25 6. GENERATE A NEW APPLICATION USING THE VFX - APPLICATION WIZARD ....... 27 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. OBJECTIVE ........................................................................................................................... 27 PREPARATION....................................................................................................................... 27 THE VFX - APPLICATION WIZARD......................................................................................... 27 GENERATE THE PROJECT ....................................................................................................... 31 7. DISCUSSION OF THE GENERATED VFX - APPLICATION ............................................. 32 7.1. OFFICE-COMPATIBLE USER INTERFACE.................................................................................. 32 7.1.1. File Menu .................................................................................................................... 32 7.1.2. Edit Menu .................................................................................................................... 33 7.1.3. View Menu ................................................................................................................... 33 7.1.4. Favorites Menu............................................................................................................ 34 7.1.5. Tools Menu .................................................................................................................. 34 Visual Extend 9.0 User Manual More productive than ever before! Page 4 7.1.6. Windows Menu............................................................................................................. 34 7.1.7. Help Menu ................................................................................................................... 35 7.1.8. Standard Office-Like Toolbar....................................................................................... 35 7.1.9. Final words about Office - Compatibility ..................................................................... 36 7.2. DATABASE TOOLS................................................................................................................. 37 7.3. USER LIST ............................................................................................................................ 37 7.3.1. Currently logged users................................................................................................. 39 7.4. USER GROUPS....................................................................................................................... 39 7.5. ERROR TRACKING ................................................................................................................. 42 7.6. ERROR HANDLING................................................................................................................. 42 7.7. SYSTEM LOCKS..................................................................................................................... 42 7.8. OPTIONS............................................................................................................................... 43 7.9. ABOUT DIALOG .................................................................................................................... 44 8. THE VFX BUILDERS .............................................................................................................. 45 8.1. VFX - APPLICATION BUILDER ............................................................................................... 45 8.2. VFX FORM WIZARD ............................................................................................................. 54 8.3. VFX - FORM BUILDER........................................................................................................... 54 8.4. VFX - DATAENVIRONMENT BUILDER..................................................................................... 54 8.5. VFX - CDATAFORMPAGE BUILDER ....................................................................................... 56 8.5.1. Edit Pages.................................................................................................................... 57 8.5.2. Grid Page .................................................................................................................... 60 8.5.3. Form Options............................................................................................................... 61 8.5.4. View Parameters .......................................................................................................... 63 8.5.5. Linked Tables............................................................................................................... 64 8.5.6. Required Fields............................................................................................................ 65 8.5.7. Report.......................................................................................................................... 66 8.6. VFX ­ CTABLEFORM BUILDER ............................................................................................. 68 8.7. VFX ­ CONETOMANY BUILDER ........................................................................................... 69 8.8. VFX ­ CONETOMANYPAGEFRAME BUILDER ........................................................................ 74 8.9. VFX ­ CTREEVIEWFORM BUILDER ....................................................................................... 75 8.9.1. Databinding of the TreeView control............................................................................ 76 8.9.2. Layout settings of the TreeView Control....................................................................... 77 8.10. VFX ­ CTREEVIEWONETOMANY BUILDER ....................................................................... 77 8.10.1. Databinding of the TreeView control........................................................................ 78 8.10.2. Layout-Settings of the TreeView Control .................................................................. 78 8.11. ENHANCEMENTS IN ONETOMANY-FORMS.......................................................................... 79 8.12. VFX ­ CGRID BUILDER..................................................................................................... 79 8.13. VFX ­ CCHILDGRID BUILDER........................................................................................... 80 8.14. VFX - CPICKFIELD BUILDER ............................................................................................. 82 8.15. VFX ­ CPICKALTERNATE BUILDER ................................................................................... 86 8.16. VFX ­ CPICKTEXTBOX BUILDER ...................................................................................... 88 8.17. VFX ­ COMBO PICK LIST BUILDER .................................................................................... 89 8.17.1. Pick list maintenance form ....................................................................................... 91 8.17.2. The class CComboPicklist .......................................................... ...