Set Delimiters, Set ReadBorder, Set("Delimiters"),
Set("ReadBorder")
These two commands relate to old ways of
indicating the bounds of a text box. They're pretty much
irrelevant in Visual FoxPro.
Usage
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SET DELIMITERS ON | OFF
SET DELIMITERS TO cDelimiters | TO DEFAULT
cOnOrOff = SET( "DELIMITERS" )
cDelimiters = SET( "DELIMITERS", 1 )
SET READBORDER ON | OFF
cOnOrOff = SET( "READBORDER" )
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SET DELIMITERS goes back to the very early days of Xbase.
It allows you to put either colons or a pair of characters of
your choice at either end of a text box (or its predecessor, the
@ .. GET). It was handy in the days when you had neither color
differences nor border lines to distinguish the endpoints.
Although it sort of works in Visual FoxPro, there's no reason to
use delimiters—just specify BorderStyle = 1 to put a nice border
around a text box.SET READBORDER applies only to @ .. GETs and
serves the same purpose as BorderStyle, except that it applies to
all the @ .. GETs within a screen. Like most SET commands, we
think it can be far more trouble than it's worth, and recommend
you stay away from it.
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