Notes for Users of 16-Bit Versions of Visual dBASE

For an overview of new features and functionality, as well as a review of what's changed in Visual dBASE 7, see the Online Help.

The white paper, "Migrating Applications from Visual dBASE 5.x to Visual dBASE 7" is available in the Knowledgebase. In your browser, open the file "index.htm" in the \KB folder on your Visual dBASE installation CD and click the "Beginning Topics" button.

In addition, please note the following:

• Changes in the default design font (from MS Sans Serif 8 to Arial 10) may affect forms you created using earlier versions of Visual dBASE. To avoid the effects of these changes, you may override the default design font using the Controls setting in the DefaultFonts section of the VDB.INI file. Add this section to VDB.INI (in the \Bin subdirectory):

[DefaultFonts]
Controls=MS Sans Serif,8

The corresponding font name and size properties will be streamed out for the form and its controls when the form is saved.

Although .QBEs are still functional, .DMDs (data modules) are now recommended for defining an updateable set of tables (both linked and unlinked). A .QBE to .DMD converter (QBE2DMD.PRG) is available in the \converters directory. This converter can also be run from the Sample Guide form.

• The BUTTONS.CC custom control library is not included with this product. The library from earlier versions will not work in Visual dBASE 7 without adjustments to the library's ReportButton and ToolButton classes. Because there is now a built-in ToolButton class (used in toolbars), you must rename the ToolButton class in BUTTONS.CC, and all instances of that class in your existing code.
  
  
• The include files UTIL.H, ENUM.H, and MESSDLG.H have been replaced by the file VDBASE.H in the \Include subdirectory. Change any #include statements that reference those old files to the new file, or copy the old files from an earlier version of Visual dBASE into the new \Include subdirectory.