Group Settings / Defaults / SET

Writes screen output to a text file.

SET ALTERNATE TO [<cFileName> [ADDITIVE] ] SET ALTERNATE on | OFF | <lToggle>

Turns automatic warning tone for data input on or off.

SET BELL on | OFF | <lToggle>

Sets whether display of years in date values will contain two or four digits.

SET CENTURY on | OFF | <lToggle>

Selects the default character set

SET CHARSET TO ansi | OEM

Selects a collation table for characters.

SET COLLATION TO [ ASCII | DIN | SYSTEM | AMERICAN | BRITISH | DANISH | DUTCH | FINNISH | FRENCH | GERMAN | GREEK437 | GREEK851 | ICELANDIC850 | ICELANDIC861 | ITALIAN | NORWEGIAN | PORTUGUESE | SPANISH | SWEDISH ]

Defines the default screen colors.

SET COLOR | COLOUR TO [ [ <standard>] [,<enhanced>] [,<border>] [,<background>] [,<unselected>] ] // or character expression in parentheses: SET COLOR | COLOUR TO ( <cColor> )

Determines how GET input ends when the last position in the edit buffer is filled.

SET CONFIRM on | OFF | <lToggle>

Turns off or reactivates screen display.

SET CONSOLE ON | off | <lToggle>

Turns screen cursor on or off.

SET CURSOR ON | off | <lToggle>

Defines the date format for input and output.

SET DATE FORMAT [TO] <cDateFormat> SET DATE [TO] SYSTEM | american | ansi | british | french | german | italian | japan | usa

Defines the number of decimal places used in the display of numbers.

SET DECIMALS TO [<nDecimals>]

Specifies the default drive and path for an Xbase++ application.

SET DEFAULT TO [<cPath>]

Sets whether records with deletion flags will be visible.

SET DELETED on | OFF | <lToggle>

Sets the delimiting characters for GET entry fields and/or whether they are displayed.

SET DELIMITERS on | OFF | <lToggle> SET DELIMITERS TO [<cDelimiter> | DEFAULT]

Specifies the output device for output performed using @...SAY.

SET DEVICE TO SCREEN | printer

Determines how date values without century digits will be interpreted.

SET EPOCH TO <nYear>

Activates or deactivates the Esc key as an exit key for READ.

SET ESCAPE ON | off | <lToggle>

Sets whether comparison of character strings will be exact.

SET EXACT on | OFF | <lToggle>

Determines whether files are opened as SHARED or EXCLUSIVE by default.

SET EXCLUSIVE on | OFF | <lToggle>

Specifies or removes a filter condition for a work area.

SET FILTER TO [<lFilter>] [IN <nWorkArea> | <cAlias> ]

Defines whether a fixed number of decimal places are used when displaying numeric values.

SET FIXED on | OFF | <lToggle>

Sets the default hash algorithm.

SET HASH TO SHA1|sha2|sha3|md5

Determines whether highlight color is used for input with GET and PROMPT.

SET INTENSITY ON | off | <lToggle>

Activates or deactivates lexical rules in the comparison of character strings.

SET LEXICAL on | OFF | <lToggle>

Sets the width of the left margin for printed output.

SET MARGIN TO [<nMargin>]

Specifies the screen row for @...PROMPT messages.

SET MESSAGE TO [<nRow> [CENTER | CENTRE]]

Enables/Disables NULL/NIL values for fields

SET NULLVALUE ON | off | <lToggle>

Enables/Disables expression optimizer of database-kernel

SET OPTIMIZE ON | off | <lToggle>

Specifies the list of directories to search when opening files.

SET PATH TO [<cPath>]

Sends screen output to the printer.

SET PRINTER on | OFF | <lToggle> SET PRINTER TO [<cDevice> | <cFileName> [ADDITIVE] ] SET PRINTER TO OBJECT <oXbpPrinter> BScope:!EF process wide

Enables/Disables Rushmore optimizer

SET RUSHMORE ON | off | <lToggle>

Sets whether messages from READ and MemoEdit() are displayed.

SET SCOREBOARD on | OFF | <lToggle>

Enables/Disables smart filtering.

SET SMARTFILTER ON | off | <lToggle>

Sets whether searches with the command SEEK will be "relative".

SET SOFTSEEK on | OFF | <lToggle>

Sets the display format for the system time

SET TIME TO HH:MM:SS | hh:MM:SS | hh:MM:SSTT | SYSTEM

Sets the size of the keyboard buffer (or more exactly: the event queue).

SET TYPEAHEAD TO <nMaxEvents>

Sets whether an index may contain multiple records with the same key value.

SET UNIQUE on | OFF | <lToggle>

Sets whether wrapping of the highlight occurs in menus.

SET WRAP on | OFF | <lToggle>

Changes and/or reads a system setting. When the value for <lAdditive> is .T. (true), the corresponding files are opened in append mode and new data is added to the end of the respective file. If the value is .F. (false) and the files already exist, they are first truncated to zero length before being opened. The default value is .T. (true).

Set( <nDefine>, [<xNewSetting>], [<lAdditive>] ) --> xOldSetting

Reads or sets current color setting for the text mode.

SetColor( [<cColor>] ) --> cColor

Determines the shape of the cursor on the screen.

SetCursor( [<nCursorShape>] ) --> nCurrentShape

Defines or returns lexical rules for the comparison of one or more characters.

SetLexRule( <aLexRule> ) --> aOldRule or SetLexRule( [<aMultipleRules>] ) --> aCollationTable