The LA Fox Developer

A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California September 1994

Out and About

[Ed. Note: Chuck Williams’ regular column, LA

Fox President’s Column, will return next month.]

DevCon Announcements Sent Out

Microsoft sent out their formal, albeit cryptic,

announcement/invitations to DevCon last week.

The dates are Jan. 16-19, 1995, in San Diego.

The invitations were peppered with important-

sounding phrases like “All FoxPro Developers

Strongly Encouraged to Attend” and “Attendance

Priority: Critical”. Registrations fees are $995

before 11/15/94, $1295 after. Although this might

seem a little steep, there are a number of reasons

to attend:

1.

It’s in your own backyard and within driving

distance. I’m sure last year’s DevCon totaled a lot

more when you added in air fare to Florida and all

the other miscellaneous expenses. Hotel ex-

penses can even be avoided if you know someone

(Con't, page 2)

Looking for a New Home

by Barry R. Lee

As most of you know by now, in August we lost one of

our more valuable members, Greg Dunn. Just as

important, when we lost Greg, we also lost our meet-

ing place at TRW. So we’re looking for a new place to

call home.

At the last board meeting, many options were dis-

cussed concerning a new meeting place. Here they

are for your review:

1.

Cal Tech, in Pasadena, has a room equipped

much like the room where the Orange County FUG

meets, with audio-visual equipment, etc. One of the

main drawbacks to holding our meetings at this loca-

tion is that the board feels they would lose a substan-

tial portion of the membership by relocating there. On

the positive side, we would no longer have to struggle

to locate overhead LCD projectors and other video

equipment.

2.

One of the members could check at their offices

to see if there is an appropriately-sized room that

could hold the meeting membership, which has been

averaging between thirty and forty people per meeting.

3.

The next option is to check libraries, banks,

savings and loans, etc., for an appropriately-sized

meeting room which they would be willing to let out to

our group. Often these rooms are free or can be had

for a nominal fee.

4.

Public utilities, like SoCalEd, and certain other

industries are required by law to perform public service

actions, one of which is to provide meeting places for

non-profit groups, which we are. As a matter of fact,

the original LA Fox meetings started out this way.

5.

Several members live in condos or apartments

(Con't, page 4)

Inside this issue

Traversing the GP Fault (Pt.2)- Page 3

XPro User Group News - Page 5

Hot Tips.... - Page 6

Three From Landmark - Page 8

Next LA Fox Meeting Location

The next meeting of LA Fox will be at the Santa

Monica Microsoft Offices , located at 1620 26th

Street - South Tower - 4th Floor, Santa Monica,

CA 90404, on Tuesday, Sept.20, 1994, at 7:30

PM. One of our featured speakers will be Roger

Woodsmall, author of “AutoManual” (AM). AM is

a piece of software that works with FoxPro to

generate end-user documentation automatically.

It’s a very useful tool for those developers who

either won’t or can’t provide documentation for

their systems. Ken Levy, our other featured

speaker, will be demonstrating a product called

Outreach for Windows by Intergroup Technolo-

gies. Outreach allows any Windows program

which can call DLLs to access VBX controls. This

includes FoxPro 2.x for Windows.