Foxfire! Support Notes

Why do I have a @ in the Filter clause?

If you look at the Filter tab for a Data Item, you may wonder why you see a @ in the Input Mask field - especially since the Inputmask Property in FoxPro doesn't use the @ symbol anymore.

This is a carry-over from an older DOS version of FoxFire!.

The Setup Wizard used to think like this:
If there was a index tag for a given field and it was based on UPPER(field_name), it would automatically populate the Input Mask field with a @!.

This has been changed in Foxfire! 8.0 to update the Format field instead.

posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 6/15/2006 01:45:00 PM