The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1994

Hot Off the Wire...

[Ed. Note : From time-to-time, we will be publishing

notes of interest that have recently appeared on

CompuServe. if you run across any that you think

might be interesting to the group or is related to

one of our members, please forward them to Barry

Lee, CID# 72 723,3422.]

Message posted by Tony Pacheco [MSFT] to

Guy Wassertzug, 4/1/94 FoxForum

Guy,

Our fix is being released to manufacturing. If you

can send us a street address and phone number,

we can enter you into our order system. When it

becomes available in about 2-3 weeks, it will

automatically be sent out to you.

Thanks,

Tony [MSFT]

[Note: The ‘fix’ Tony is referring to is the FoxPro

Mac product.]

Message posted by Y. Alan Griver, 4/5/94, Fox

User Forum (#20787)

Hey there folks, I’m pleased to announce the latest

member of our family here:

Ken Levy is a software engineer who has spent

the last 17 months consulting full-time at NASA’s

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasedena, CA. At

JPL, Ken specialized in created application devel-

opment tools primarily in the FoxPro environment.

A significant portion of the work centered around a

program called GENSCRNX along with a few add-

on drivers. Ken was allowed to place GENSCRNX

into the public domain through Cal Tech to allow

technology exchange. Since GENSCRNX is public

domain, Ken will continue to enhance GENSCRNX

as required on a regular basis.

Prior to working at JPL, Ken spent six years work-

ing for Modular Communication System, Inc. in

North Hollywood, CA where he designed and

wrote software for dispatch communication con-

soles used in the public safety industry. The most

significant portion of his 6 year experience in-

cluded designing and writing software for ROM

based custom-networked real-time applications

using Intel’s PL/M compiler and assembler for the

16-bit 8096 embedded controller. The embedded

controller driven user interface evolved into a

programmable object-based touch screen / mouse

interface using FoxPro 2.0. A typical application

consisted of 500-1500 user defined windows moni-

tored for mouse clicks while a real-time INKEYO event

loop procecessed RS-232C data via multiple

commuication ports. Along with dispatch systems

distributed throught the United States, one of the

largest series of systems are currently installed in most

of the southern half of California controlling all of the

Calif. Hightway Patrol’s mobile communications.

Ken has also has created many custom FoxPro

applications for accounting, inventory, bar code I/O,

etc. Ken’s early programming experience included

dBASE Il/FoxBase+ and prior to that included BASIC

and Z80 assembly languages mostly on the TRS-80

models.

Before y’all ask, Ken will be starting with us towards

the end of this month, and will be staying in

Northridge, CA. We’re installing the chains now...

yag

Posted on FoxForum, Harvey Johnson to all, 4/7/94

(#639591)

This notice pertains to the upcoming FoxPro Users

Conference:

Ken Levy - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Extending The Screen Builder With GENSCRNX

Led by the author of GENSCRNX for FoxPro, this

session will discuss the architecture and features of

GENSCRNX which is a pre and post processor exten-

sion to FoxPro’s GENSCRN. GENSCRNX is a public

domain program that allows extended control over the

code generated from FoxPro’s Screen Builder without

modifying GENSCRN. The session will discuss how

GENSCRNX extends Screen Builder development

using its own set of built in directives; how to create

complete 3D looking screens in FoxPro for Windows

with just a few directives; and how to create complete

Drag/Drop interfaces with pictures and text using

Visual Basic like syntax that is fully cross-platform

ready (DOS/Windows/Mac). This session assumes

knowledge of FoxPro’s Screen Builder but does not

require any knowledge of GENSCRN.

The 1994 FoxPro Users Conference

Minneapolis Convention Center

June 19-21, 1994

(800) 486-8028 (612) 941-6224

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