2007-12-05   Beyond the help files - Paradox 11 - Build 410 - 10.0

This document contains information about Paradox that's beyond what you could expect to find in the help files.

The list has been compiled by:
Bertil Isberg
Statistics Sweden
office e-mail: bertil.isbergATscbDOTse
home e-mail: bertil.isbergATbredbandDOTnet

Thanks to all of you who have contributed to this document by posting information on Corel's newsgroups.

My current configuration:
Paradox: Help | About dialog: 11.00.410
BDE Administrator: Object | Version Information - Idapi32.dll: 5.2.0.2.
My Computer - Properties: Win XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 SP 2


Table of contents

1442ActiveX, OCX, OleAuto: ActiveX combobox
1653ActiveX, OCX, OleAuto: OCX methods not available
3BDE: IDAPI32.CFG
1708BDE: Mixed Windows versions in a network
751BDE: Non standard database drivers
45BDE: Some BDE settings
7Cause of problems: Is default printer available?
1202Cause of problems: Number of fonts installed
70Cause of problems: Style sheets stored on removable drive
925Corel WebServer: Corel WebServer
1514Corel WebServer: Corel WebServer and Apache
12Corel WebServer: Interaction between Paradox and Corel WebServer
1610Corel WebServer: Using sleep() in code
921Date & Time: Dates
1230Date & Time: Time calculations
716Experts: Frequently Asked Questions - Experts
66Experts: Merge Expert in Paradox 11 from WP Office Suite 12
1280Form: Formatted memo
719Form: Frequently Asked Questions - Forms
53Form: Ghost object created for table bound fields when a form is run
1282Form: Memo field
26Form: MouseWheel
1749Form design: Accelerator key feature
536Form design: AutoAppend property
442Form design: DataModel - Design layout
1691Form design: Design recommendations
11Form design: Fields - dropdown
556Form design: Graphic objects
233Form design: How to create password fields
367Form design: How to define special fields like Record_Number using ObjectPAL
141Form design: Master->Detail form without links in DataModel
38Form design: MemoFields and Text objects
54Form design: Multi-table datamodels
462Form design: Naming record objects in a tableFrame
774Form design: Notebook objects
374Form design: ObjectPAL considerations for 1-1 linked tables
181Form design: Performance effects
4Form design: Property Color
892Form design: Recommendations for design, test, and deliver
13Form design: Replace table shown in tableframe at runtime
144Form design: Resize page and form at runtime
1553Form design: stringlist
1725Form/report design: Fonts
906Form/report design: Property Font.Size
938Import/Export: Time Field Conversions
840Import/Export: Wide text files
721Installation: Frequently Asked Questions - Installation
1301Installation: Localized version of Paradox or the WP Suite
10Installation: Paradox 11
30Installation: Paradox 5 on Win2000
1207Installation: Running Paradox 8 on Win NT and later versions of Windows
1152Installation: Running Paradox on WinFrame / Citrix
1742Installation: Runtime 11
36Installation: WPO 2002 - Paradox 10
1690Launching Paradox: inmem000.rem
1681Launching Paradox: Paradox does not open from the Start menu
317Library: Principle of Usage
333Library: Understanding libraries
1752Network issues: Corrupted PDOXUSRS.NET
724Network issues: Frequently Asked Questions - Network
1040Network issues: Novell Netware server
1678Network issues: Performance on network
237ObjectPAL: advMatch()
1252ObjectPAL: Alias setup for an application
1555ObjectPAL: Application code ideas
1501ObjectPAL: Application Framework
15ObjectPAL: Autoincrement replacement
1172ObjectPAL: Best way to shut down an application
107ObjectPAL: Cascading delete
611ObjectPAL: changeValue() - who triggered it?
1260ObjectPAL: Combo field
490ObjectPAL: CompileInformation() - SymbolTable Size
1254ObjectPAL: Crosstab
845ObjectPAL: Custom and third party DLLs
18ObjectPAL: Custom methods and procedures
246ObjectPAL: Custom methods vs procedures
837ObjectPAL: database.open()
391ObjectPAL: Decimal digits
236ObjectPAL: disableDefault
623ObjectPAL: dmSetProperty()
1527ObjectPAL: Efficient String Concatenation
1736ObjectPAL: enumWindowNames()
42ObjectPAL: Errorhandling
65ObjectPAL: Errorhandling
5ObjectPAL: Event model
128ObjectPAL: Event model
452ObjectPAL: Event model
460ObjectPAL: Event model
577ObjectPAL: Event model - arrive event
479ObjectPAL: eventInfo.setErrorCode()
1533ObjectPAL: Font.Script property
161ObjectPAL: Form - close(), formReturn(), formCaller()
725ObjectPAL: Frequently Asked Questions - ObjectPAL
75ObjectPAL: Graphic type
772ObjectPAL: How to reference fields in tableframes and MRO objects
456ObjectPAL: keyEvent
908ObjectPAL: Line objects
17ObjectPAL: Mail type
71ObjectPAL: memo.readFromRtfFile() and writeToRtfFile()
104ObjectPAL: menuAction()
1359ObjectPAL: menuAction() event
341ObjectPAL: Menus
1309ObjectPAL: Mike Irwin's lessons
1485ObjectPAL: msgQuestion() and other msg dialogs
1392ObjectPAL: Non standard databases
103ObjectPAL: Number type and Currency type
1182ObjectPAL: NWC objects
41ObjectPAL: OleAuto - WordPerfect
1488ObjectPAL: Paradox Desktop windows
1223ObjectPAL: Parameterized queries
33ObjectPAL: Query
973ObjectPAL: RecordStatus("Modified")
232ObjectPAL: Recursive calls to custom methods / procedures
736ObjectPAL: Refreshing the list for a combobox
478ObjectPAL: sendKeys()
349ObjectPAL: setBatchOn()
108ObjectPAL: setGenFilter()
39ObjectPAL: Setting up a set of radio buttons using OPAL
1306ObjectPAL: show() and bringToTop()
52ObjectPAL: Specifying extension for forms, reports, scripts, and libraries
132ObjectPAL: String concatenation with null characters
1647ObjectPAL: string type
180ObjectPAL: tCursor
425ObjectPAL: tCursor
1390ObjectPAL: tCursor - flush the table buffer
409ObjectPAL: tCursor assignments
519ObjectPAL: textStream
57ObjectPAL: Tildevariables and BDE settings
96ObjectPAL: TimerEvent
49ObjectPAL: Understanding syntax for calling custom methods
1001ObjectPAL: Virtual keycodes
507ObjectPAL: Windows messages
1Odbc oledb ado: Connect to Paradox using ado
1792Odbc oledb ado: Create ODBC datasource from ObjectPAL
1274Odbc oledb ado: Intersolve's / Merant's ODBC driver
1287Odbc oledb ado: Merant's Paradox driver
76Odbc oledb ado: MS SQL Server 2005
1720Odbc oledb ado: ODBC: MS ODBC driver for Paradox
1649Odbc oledb ado: Oracle 8
1716Odbc oledb ado: Using ODBC to read Excel spreadsheets
1573Paradox Desktop: Experts are missing
69Paradox Desktop: File extensions registered by Paradox
1240Paradox Desktop: Missing toolbars
1358Paradox Desktop: MouseWheel
73Paradox Desktop: Project Viewer
48Paradox Desktop: Selecting a Private directory
1761Paradox Desktop: Toolbars
22Printer: Adobe Acrobat PDF driver and Distiller - How to
806Printer: Adobe Acrobat PDF driver and Distiller - Problems
6Printer: Configuring printers
67Printer: HP Laser Jet 2300
24Printer: HP printer with a JetDirect card
1705Printing: Collate
790Printing: Custom Paper size / Page size
803Printing: Font problems
583Printing: Gridlines and Record divider does not occur on the print out
799Printing: Labels
1693Printing: Matrix printers
805Printing: Memos & Formatted memos
791Printing: Orientation
520Printing: Print to file
807Printing: Printer setup
23Printing: printerSetCurrent()
1719Printing: Printing Duplex
1696Printing: Printing on Novell using NPDS
40Printing: Printing problems
1757Printing: Report expanding off of the page when printed
8Printing: Selecting tray
381Query: AND and OR logic
717Query: Frequently Asked Questions - Queries
879Query: if then else
924Query: Minimum and next to minimum
663Query: Queries and indexing
410Query: Top 40 queries
669Report: Browse Source for calculated fields
1213Report: Calculated fields in a report
1721Report: Effects of Special field Number of Pages
1019Report: Field's value doesn't show in preview, but it is printed
718Report: Frequently Asked Questions - Reports
917Report: Group totals and Breakable property
1196Report: readEnvironmentString()
1602Report: Report not printing what is displayed
21Report: Reports are squashed vertically on screen
1425Report: Viewing a report with zoom fit width
55Report design: Data models
50Report design: Datamodel considerations when sorting a report
639Report design: Summary fields in report header
945Report design: To create a page footer only on the last page
722Runtime: Frequently Asked Questions - Paradox Runtime
1271Runtime: Paradox Runtime 9 - Installation
72SQL: Outer join
68Table: dBase tables created by Excel
720Table: Frequently Asked Questions - Tables and Tableviews
1618Table: Index and table size
1344Table: Invalid and allowed characters in field names
32Table: Language drivers
34Table: Language drivers
19Table: Limits
47Table: Local transactions
422Table: Locks
1082Table: Low ascii characters in a table column
1087Table: Passwords
188Table: Reasons for table corruption
430Table: Secondary index size
657Table: Storage requirements for Paradox Field Types
56Table: Storing trailing spaces
1621Table: Table corruption caused by compound primary keys
1497Table: Table is full
756Table: Tables on CD
46Table: Time field as primary key
766TableRepair: Table Repair error levels and error codes
14Windows configuration: Installing fonts
16Windows configuration: Mail clients
1726Windows configuration: Network issues on Win XP
1706Windows configuration: Thousand separator
739Windows configuration: Tips for configuration
9Windows versions: BDE Administrator
1756Windows versions: File Select dialog
2Windows versions: Performance issues under Win 2000 and Win XP
1778Windows versions: Running Paradox 7 on Win 2000 and Win XP
1597Windows versions: Running Paradox on Win XP
31Windows versions: Win2000
27Windows versions: Win2000 SP3
77Windows versions: Windows Vista

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