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LA Fox President’s Column (Con't from p. 3)

topics as the official FoxPro Developer Conference, including George Goley, Lisa Slater, Alan Gnver, Dick Bard, Randy Brown, Bob Grommes, David Kalman, John Hawkins, Alan Schwartz, Mohsen Moazami, and our own star of stage, screen and radio (mostly screen) - Ken Levy, It is a two day conference complete with trade show, third party vendor presentations, and strong support from Microsoft. If you want to hear from the best in the FoxPro world, this is a good place to do it. I will have brochures at the user meeting, and you can register at (800) 486-8028.

If you want classroom training, The Information Management Group offers a series of multi-day FoxPro courses focused on the Power Tools, which will be held in Los Angeles in May and July. I have a brochure with course descriptions and dates. You can register at (800) 922-2019. They also offer two Advanced FoxPro development courses but you have to go to Chicago (the city in Illinois) for those.

Pinnacle Publishing has just completed publication of the second series of reports called The Pros Talk Fox, and is offering selected volumes at $29 each. These are excellent sources of information by first rate authors, and are well worth the price if the topic matches your interests. For example, Melissa Dunn’s report on SQL is one of the best treatments I have seen. I will have the list of topics at the User Meeting. You can order at (800) 231- 1293.

Mac Rubel, nationally known writer and speaker on FoxPro, has announced the availability of upgraded versions of his two packages of application development tools - Power Developers Library and Development Debugger. He is offering them at substantial discounts to user group members - $245 for the pair. I will have brochures at the user meeting. You can order direct from Mac at

Neon Software is releasing the Windows version of FoxExpress with many improvements over the DOS version that Mike Feltman showed us in one of our earlier meetings. Brochures with product details are available at the user meeting. Contact

Mike at Neon, (419) 843-2797, for more details.

A new users group is forming in Orange County for

Windows NT users. Meetings will be held at

QuickStart Technologies in Newport Beach. Quickstart

does training on WindowsNT, SQL Server and other

Microsoft products. Call (714) 757-3337.

Employment Opportunities

A national travel company located in the LAX airport area is looking for a full time FoxPro programmer/ analyst. Call Bill Price at (310) 649-3820.

Industrious Software Solutions, an accounting software producer in Inglewood, is looking for an expert FoxPro programmer. Send a resume to PRG, 500 W. Florence Aye, Inglewood, 90301

This is information relating to GENSCRNX and related public domain programs that I created at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and how their future will be effected by my joining Flash Creative Management, Inc. on 4/

GENSCRNX is designed for FoxPro 2.x. I plan to create tool(s) that transport existing 2.x screens into 3.0 automatically. Think about how the transporter works. It is manipulating the .SCX metadata to allow proper generation of objects in another platform by creating new records and adjusting them accordingly. Why can’t a utility transport any GENSCRNX related directives into new metadata as well? For example, FoxPro 3.0 will probably have built in 3D, DragDrop, etc. as well as many functions supported in GENSCRNX. A transport utility could *easily* take directives from the Comment snippet (from 2.x) and properly update the *new* 3.0 metadata so that the same output will be generated. With FP 3.0, many of the functions of GENSCRNX, 3D, DragDrop, etc. will be probably supported by FoxPro itself and will controlled by the metadata (even if it’s not .DBF format). GENSCRNX will be modified to not only handle *transparenr compatiblity to FP 3.0, but will continue to support even more functionality. Using object-oriented extensions in FP 3.0, GENSCRNX may not have to be