The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

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

topics as the official FoxPro Developer Confer-

ence, 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 sup-

port 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 publica-

tion 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 applica-

tion development tools - Power Developers

Library and Development Debugger. He is offering

them at substantial discounts to user group mem-

bers - $245 for the pair. I will have brochures at

the user meeting. You can order direct from Mac at

(212) 972-2330.

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

May 1994

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 soft-

ware producer in Inglewood, is looking for an expert

FoxPro programmer. Send a resume to PRG, 500 W.

Florence Aye, Inglewood, 90301

From the Pen of Ken

This is information relating to GENSCRNX and related

public domain programs that I created at Jet Propul-

sion Laboratory and how their future will be effected

by my joining Flash Creative Management, Inc. on 4/

25/94.

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 con-

trolled by the metadata (even if it’s not .DBF format).

GENSCRNX will be modified to not only handle *trans-

parenr 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

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