Mark.Ogier

Hi Is there a way to set which field the cursor drops into when pressing the standard find button on the status bar? There is a field on my layout that i search in 90% of the time but it is not the first field on the layout so when I press find I have to keep clicking in my search field box? Thanks Mark

Hi Is there any way of writing out a log file to record step by step activity during a script execution? I am a script beginner and getting my head around FM scripts. So far so good but need to do this logging thing somehow. Many thanks Mark

Hi Just getting into my first FM script and all going well so far. But it is quite a big script with many steps and i would like to give the user some feedback about what is happening ("about to start step 1", "Step 1 complete", "starting next step" etc.) Can someone point me in the right direction as to how a display some kind of form or window at the start of the script and update some text on it to give the step by step feedback of what is happening? Or is that not the way bit should be done in FM? All ideas gratefully received Many thanks Mark

Great help! Thanks to you all. I will get reading

Hi I have been a .Net and other programmer for many years but only just started doing some work withFM. I am tasked with writing an import routine from a tab delim file. I have started an import script and set up filed mapping but many of the fields will require massaging after import. I am loading the ones that need work into temp fields and want then to run a further script to manipulate the data to clean it up and make it more suitable for the new database. What I can't see is how to get to use all the FM functions I see in the doc files that allow me to do things like string manipulation etc (Right, left, replace etc). Is it possible to do such things in a script? If so can someone give me a steer to how itis done. Or am I going about this in the wrong way? Thanks in advance Mark