The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1994

DevCast 4 I FoxPro 3.0 Demo

Chuck,

Place the following somewhere in the LA Fox UG newsletter if you like it. It is an overview of the 5 minute FoxPro 3.0 demo to compliment Bill’s extensive article on the same subject.

“...You saw GETS/READ replaced with objects tied to the Windows event model,multiple application instances running completely modeless and independent with full encapsulated methods and properties, user defined class definitions, access to Windows events (DblClick, etc.), runtime control of object instances (X.TITLE=’new title’), multiple object instances from a class definition, and an independent toolbar. That 5 minute demo showed technology that blows away the copy-and-paste methodology found in Access2.0.”

Hot Tips

by Barry R. Lee

This month’s Hot Tip comes from Lisa Slater in the

FoxPro Developer’s Journal, published by the

Cobb Group, April 1994. The article is titled “Using

GenScm to Solve the ‘Moving Windows’ Problem”.

This article deals with the way multiple screen sets seem to “move around” in FoxPro for Windows, particularly if font sizes change from window to window. In the article, she suggests building a multiple screen set, then changing the font size contained within one window and regenerating the screens. Depending on the font size used, the change could have a dramatic effect on the relative positions of the windows. This effect becomes more pronounced as the font sizes get farther apart.

Her “fix” is to modify GenScm with the following commands:

1 Get into GenScm with this command:

By making this minor change, GenScm generates a MODIFY WINDOW SCREEN line specifying font attributes that exactly matches the current screen fon at the moment you generate the screen, everytime you generate it.

It Can’t Get Any Easier.......

We’ve come up with an easy way to submit articles to the LA Fox Developer Newsletter one that has been overlooked for a long time.

You can submit your articles to either Chuck Williams (72330,2326) or Barry Lee (72723,3422) on Compuserve.

These articles can be on any FoxPro-related topic, whether it concerns a new technique you’ve discovered, a certain development technique you may favor over others, book reviews, etc.

The quality of this newsletter really depends on the members that support it, not just read it. And I think we’d all be surprised by the useful information that could be circulated around the membership.

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