Hi, I am a new member with only small experience about FM.

I need to transfer a field content to my Foxpro program.

Please imagine that I have a FM browser with an icon on that, when I click the icon, the FM should transfer a field content of a certain record to my Foxpro executable program.

Help me please how to do it.

Thank you very much.

You'll need to export the data from FMP, then import it into FoxPro.

Thanx for advice, but I need to make it automatically, it does mean that the Foxpro should start by 1 click on a button from FM.

Milan Tran

Fairfax VA, USA

I used to use FoxPro on the Mac (this would be fifteen or twenty years ago). I imagine you could script the export/import using the Windows scripting language (forgive my ingnorance, is it Visual Basic?) and trigger it from FileMaker.

Something you may have trouble with is that FoxPro, being a dBase descendant, has mostly fixed-length fields but supports variable-length fields in separate linked files. I would export the FM files as tab-delineated--I recall that FoxPro has no great trouble with them--but I'm unsure whether you'll be able to import any long strings into the variable-length fields in FoxPro. My recollection is that support for these fields was pretty poor. If your data is all short, this shouldn't be a problem but if you've got any long text fields, it may be.

Good luck.