The Windows Shell provides a powerful set of automation objects that enable you to access the file system, launch programs, and change system settings.

The Shell Windows Method creates and returns a ShellWindows object that represents a collection of all of the open windows that belong to the Shell, including Internet Explorer.

The code below demonstrates the use of the DRIVETYPE() function.

The GridHitTest method can be used to to determine where user clicked on the grid and update checkbox accordingly. Note that checkbox status can be changed by mouse only because there's no current cell when AllowCellSelection=.F.

Syntactically there is no difference between FUNCTION and PROCEDURE statements in VFP. In other languages, that have both statements, a function can return a value and a procedure cannot. In VFP the difference comes in the way a procedure/function is called. By default VFP passes parameters by value in call to the functions, by reference to the procedures ( DO ...) and only former allows for a return value.

The GetDeviceCaps function can be used to retrieve printer-specific information as demonstrated below.

CLEAR
 
#DEFINE LOGPIXELSX    88    && Logical pixels/inch in X         
#DEFINE LOGPIXELSY    90    && Logical pixels/inch in Y         
 
#DEFINE PHYSICALWIDTH   110 && Physical Width in device units   
#DEFINE PHYSICALHEIGHT  111 && Physical Height in device units  
#DEFINE PHYSICALOFFSETX 112 && Physical Printable Area x margin 

The GetSystemMetrics WIN API can be used to get the number of monitors. Some other constants related to multi-monitor PC configurations are also included.

#DEFINE SM_XVIRTUALSCREEN 76
#DEFINE SM_YVIRTUALSCREEN 77
#DEFINE SM_CXVIRTUALSCREEN 78
#DEFINE SM_CYVIRTUALSCREEN 79
#DEFINE SM_CMONITORS 80
DECLARE Long GetSystemMetrics IN user32 Long nIndex
lnNonitors = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CMONITORS)
? lnNonitors

MSDN:

• Environment Variables
• SendMessageTimeout Function
• WM_SETTINGCHANGE
• WSH RegWrite method

Relevant links:
http://www.summitinstruments.com/knowledge_center/pdf/TN410.pdf
http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/crc-calculation.html?crc=12345678987...

The CopyFile() and MoveFile() WIN API functions preserve the case of the name for the destination file. Alternatively, WSH can be used.
The source and destination file names should include the directory name in both cases.

Note 1 A Copy operation will not change file name case when destination file already exists (overwritten).

Note 2 The WinApiErrMsg is used to retrieve Windows API error message in case of error.