New Dialog Box

Lets you create new files using designers and wizards.

Visual FoxPro provides a range of designers to help you create classes, connections, databases, forms, labels, menus, queries, local and remote views, reports, and tables. You may also use a Visual FoxPro wizard to create many of these files, including a variety of reports, forms, and queries. New program or text files are created by simply typing them in the Editing Window. The following table shows you the file types and how each can be created.

Shortcut

CTRL+N

The New dialog box appears when you select New from the File menu.

• File Type
  The following table lists the file types and the features available for creating them, depending on whether you click New File or Wizards.

  File Type	Created With
  Project	Project Manager
  Database	Database Designer
  Table	Table Designer, Table Wizard
  Query	Query Designer, Cross-Tab Wizard, Query Wizard, Local View Wizard, Remote View Wizard, PivotTable Wizard
  Connection*	Connection Designer
  View*	View Designer, Local View Wizard
  Remote View*	Remote View Wizard
  Form	Form Designer, Form Wizard, One-to-Many Form Wizard
  Report	Report Designer, Report Wizard, One-to-Many Report Wizard
  Label	Label Designer, Label Wizard
  Program	Editing Window
  Class	Class Designer
  Text File	Editing Window
  Menu	Menu Designer

* You must have a database open to enable this option.

• New File
  Displays a dialog box, designer, or editing window so you can create the selected file type.
• Wizard
  Opens a wizard that creates the selected file type. If there is a group of wizards to choose from, Visual FoxPro will prompt you to select the wizard you want.

See Also

Create Dialog Box | Class Designer | Connection Designer | Database Designer | Editing Window | Form Designer | Label Designer | Menu Designer | Project Manager | Query Designer | Report Designer | Table Designer | View Designer