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This page is dedicated to FoxPro DOS utilities

FoxFree.plb

Library that frees the CPU while a FoxPro program waits for a keystroke.
It hooks into the Foxpro „Idle Task“, providing a completely clean solution,
no power consumption while waiting, max.power while code working.

No special setup is required. Simply add:
SET LIBRARY TO FoxFree.plb additive
into your init. code.
Everything rest is handled in PLB.

FoxFree.com

DOS resident program for those who can not add PLB library into code.
Just load it prior to your Fox program and that is it.
Rest is the same as in the PLB version.

Just place „FoxFree.com“ somewhere before the FoxPro/APP start sequence in your batch file.

Long File Names library

Library for access to LFN functionality in FoxPro DOS

Works in Windows 9x, XP, Win7, Win10, Win11 and vDosPlus
Dosbox-X has error in LFN routines, so not fully working yet. Hope soon …

Set Affinity to one core of CPU

Works in Windows 9x, XP, Win7, Win10, Win11

BetterFox.PLB library

brings syntax coloring in FoxPro „modify command“ windows
and much more.
Works on Win9x up to Win11 plus Dosbox, Dosbox-X and VDOS(LFN)
Pls. contact me if you would like the lib. It is free.

It brings, for example:

Alt+Left/Right arrow – jump over positions history (even across more sources !) (like Visual Studio)
F12 – search token (procedure name, variable, disk file, ….) under cursor
and, possibly, open it (screen [SCX], report [FRT], …)
Tab / Shift+TAB – block indent / unindent
Ctrl+Del – deletes token on the right side of the cursor (not only in editors, but even in GETs, …)
Ctrl+Backspace – enhanced
Ctrl+C/V – if there is no block, it creates it from token under cursor
Ctrl+Shift+Del – delete actual line
Ctrl+Tab – switches between MODIFY COMMAND windows only (Ctrl+F2 remains for Command wind.)
Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down arrow – moves current line (or block) up/down in code
Ctrl+F – automatically copies token under cursor, or block, into Find field
Ctrl+Up/Down arrow – scrolls source code without move cursor
Trace window – variable preview simply by mouse hover (like in VFP, but smarter)
right-clicking a token in the Trace window adds it to the line in the DEBUG window
highlights tokens from blok on whole screen (looking for variable „xyz“, …)