On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Graham Trott <grahamskaraoke@gmail.com> wrote:

> Would like to use the block character from codepage 437 without changing codepages chr(219)=? and chr(255)= blank space

>

> VFP9 uses codepage 1252.

1252 is the codepage for Western European languages. In Russia VFP

would use 1251.

> I am not sure what the implications would be of changing the codepage in existing applications.

I don't believe you can change the codepage on an application basis

(especially not to a DOS cp like 437!).

>I would just like to create a simple progress bar that does not use any screen real estate.