NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/database/5850

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From: [e-mail] (Randy Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Can A FoxPro App Contain An Editor?
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Date: 30 Jul 92 23:17:58 GMT
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In article <7=pmv##[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Will Estes) writes...
>I'm trying to determine if an existing application written in C could be
>easily re-written as a FoxPro application.
>
>The part of the application that is in question is an editor and
>form-letter generator.  Essentially, the application contains a list of
>form letters.  If the user selects one of these letters, he is brought
>into an editor, and he is able to edit the text of the letter as well as
>insert and delete fields of the database within the letter.
>
>Can the above be handled elegantly within a FoxPro application?  Would
>it require interfacing to a C program for the editor/mail-merge
>functions?
>
>Thanks,
>Will Estes         Internet: [e-mail]

I've heard of people implementing their own editors in Foxpro.  I know it
has parameters for setting which editor it calls, and you can plug in your
own.  Haven't done it though.  I know that some of the Compuserve Foxpro
users have done this, that's where I heard about it.  I think maybe someone
even posted their editor for downloading.

Randy