Chapter One Introduction to Visual FoxPro Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Chapter One Introduction to Visual FoxPro Background Advantages User interface Exit Visual FoxPro
Knowledge about Visual FoxPro Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Knowledge about Visual FoxPro Visual FoxPro is a product of Microsoft. It come from the FoxBase Which design by Foxholding Co. FoxPro is database management system. It can manipulate and query the data in the database. Advantage: Provide the object-oriented programming syntax. Rushmore Visual Tools Support multimedia database
Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Execute Visual FoxPro User interface : Menu bar : using the mouse to choice the function. Tool bar: function picture. Command Window: the place where we can write down the command. Display window: display the final result. Status bar: explain the status.
Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Menu bar Command Window Tool bar Main screen Status bar
Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Exit Visual FoxPro Press the button : <File> --> <Exit> Type the quit in command window. System control button --> <Exit> Double click the “Fox ‘s head”. Alt + F4 X
Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Command window Call the command window: <window> --> <command window> press the buttons Non case-sensitive Dir *.dbf = dir *.dbf Repeat Abbreviate Breaking command over lines with “ ;”. Auto checking the command Font Ctrl F2 +
Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Help Help command: display the message about using method. Press the button: F1
Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU File Extension *.dbc database file *.dbf table file *.fpt memo file *.frx report file *.prg, .spr, .mpr program file *.qpr query file *.scx, *.sct form file
Visual FoxPro--Ch1 By CHANG YU Homework What is the advantage of Visual FoxPro? How many parts of the main screen? How to call back the command window? How to exit from the Visual FoxPro? What will be display in status bar, if we input the command “use student” ?