I am writing a program for a company that has a truly
computer phobic CEO. Because of that, I used a page
framew with 9 pages to make it appear as simple as
possible. The menu bar was to be accessed only by a
computer literate staffer.
When most of the program was done, it started
exhibiting instablities that I couldn't get rid of. I
tried manually controlling data and control issues. When
that didn't work, I tried using as many automatic program
building wizards as possible. That didn't work either.
I tried using a floating window above the page frame
with a menu bar inside it, and that had limited sucess.
I can find nothing on the limitations of the number of
pages and controls allowed in a page frame. I don't know
if Fox 8 will work, and I'm reluctant to buy it and go to
all the work involved in upgrading the program and then
not have it work.
If anyone has knowledge of a possible work-around, or
knows whether version 8 would allow that many pages and
controls, please let me know.

Jack Hunt
Creative Systems

RE: Fox 5&6 page frame instabilities by Leemi

Leemi
Tue Dec 30 10:39:54 CST 2003

Hi Jack:

Can you be more specific as to the problem? You mention "instabilities" in
your post. Do you mean crashes, hangs or errors?

If you can provide a little better description of the behavior you see,
maybe someone can help.

By the way, I know of no limit to the number of pages in a page frame or
the number of objects other than memory limits. However, everything has
practical limits, like the size of the form, etc.

I hope this helps and have a Happy New Year!

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Sincerely,
Microsoft FoxPro Technical Support
Lee Mitchell

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>I am writing a program for a company that has a truly
>computer phobic CEO. Because of that, I used a page
>framew with 9 pages to make it appear as simple as
>possible. The menu bar was to be accessed only by a
>computer literate staffer.
> When most of the program was done, it started
>exhibiting instablities that I couldn't get rid of. I
>tried manually controlling data and control issues. When
>that didn't work, I tried using as many automatic program
>building wizards as possible. That didn't work either.
> I tried using a floating window above the page frame
>with a menu bar inside it, and that had limited sucess.
> I can find nothing on the limitations of the number of
>pages and controls allowed in a page frame. I don't know
>if Fox 8 will work, and I'm reluctant to buy it and go to
>all the work involved in upgrading the program and then
>not have it work.
> If anyone has knowledge of a possible work-around, or
>knows whether version 8 would allow that many pages and
>controls, please let me know.

>Jack Hunt
>Creative Systems



Re: Fox 5&6 page frame instabilities by Igor

Igor
Tue Dec 30 11:16:40 CST 2003

Hi, Jack!
You wrote on Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:05:02 -0800:

What kind of instabilities do you have? As for me - multipaged forms always
worked as expected (even ones with nested pageframes and with dynamically
filled controls). I use them in both VFP6SP5 and VFP7SP1, now I moved to
VFP8SP1...

P.S. Happy New Year

--
WBR, Igor