Windows

The Windows section explains the options that appear on various dialog boxes, windows, and other user interfaces.

In This Section

  • Browse Window
    This window displays the records in the active table.
  • Call Stack Window
    Makes is possible for you to display procedures, programs, and methods that are executing. While a program is running, it is listed in the Call Stack window.
  • Class Browser Window
    The Class Browser displays the classes in a class library or a form and the type library information in a .tlb, .olb, or .exe file.
  • Code Window
    Use the Code window to write, display, and edit form, event, and method code.
  • Command Window
    The Command window is a Microsoft Visual FoxPro system window. When you choose menu commands, Visual FoxPro language commands are echoed in the Command window.
  • Component Gallery Window
    The Component Gallery window displays, as shortcut icons, components available to your Microsoft Visual FoxPro projects, applications, designers, wizards, and builders, which makes it possible for you to manage, in various ways, any file available to your system.
  • Coverage Profiler Window
    Contains a group of Coverage Profiler Tool Buttons and options that make it possible for you to specify how you display the information returned by the Coverage Engine.
  • Debugger Window
    The Visual FoxPro Debugger window contains the Debugger menus, the Debugger toolbar, and several debugging windows.
  • Editing Window
    The Editing window provides text and program file editing.
  • Properties Window
    The Properties window contains the list of properties, events, and methods for a selected form, data environment, cursor, relation, or control.
  • User Interface Reference
    User interface (UI) reference topics explain the options that appear on various dialog boxes, windows, and other user interfaces. These types of topics generally appear when you press F1 in a dialog box or window.
  • Developing Applications with the Application Framework
    The Application Framework is designed to include all required, and many optional, elements that make an application effective and pleasurable to use.
  • Builders
    Builders are tools that aid in setting properties of controls on a form. Unlike wizards, builders are reentrant, so you can reopen a builder on a particular control repeatedly.
  • Dialog Boxes
    This section explains the options that appear on various dialog boxes.
  • Developing Visual FoxPro Applications
    This section includes conceptual information about how to develop Visual FoxPro applications, instructions for creating databases and the user interface, and other tasks needed to create Visual FoxPro applications.
  • Programming in Visual FoxPro
    Visual FoxPro is a powerful interactive data management tool, but you also can access the full power of Visual FoxPro by creating applications. Understanding object-oriented programming techniques and the event-driven model can maximize your programming productivity.