The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1994

DevCast 4 I FoxPro 3.0 Demo

Date:

05-Apr-94 02:39 PDT

From:

Ken Levy

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 rela-

tive 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 informa-

tion that could be circulated around the member-

ship.

So.

How ‘bout it?

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