The LA Fox Developer

A Newsletter for FoxPro Application

April 1995

LA Fox President's Column

by Chuck Williams

Ken Levy

We don’t get to see Ken as much as we used to,

and it is good to know that he hasn’t changed. The

unbridled enthusiasm, the rapid fire delivery, and

the running stream of laughs were all there as Ken

showed us another big slice of Visual FoxPro. With

an appreciative audience he is in his glory. In

contrast to most FoxPro developers, Ken opened

with.the idea that “I don’t do data, you will have to

talk to Tom Rettig and George Goley about those

things” What Ken does is the visual part and the

object oriented part.

In the opening segment, he emphasized the

richness of the event model and property sheets,

extolled the virtues of the grid object, illustrated the

control objects and generally underscored the

idea that for an application developer, the jump

from FoxPro 2.6 to Visual FoxPro is about equiva-

lent to two normal releases. I found his observa-

tions about configuration interesting — with the

emphasis on visual tools, a large screen, high-res

monitor (17 inch, 1000 by whatever) can have a

major impact on development productivity — VFP

runs much better and is more stable on Windows

NT than other platforms — don’t try development

with less than 16 mb of RAM, and you will like 24

mb a lot better — its nice that Pentium prices are

coming down!

While the first segment was done very much under

control, Ken warmed up to his favorite object-

oriented ideas in the second segment, and also

moved up to his normal speed and higher tpm

index (topics per minute). He emphasized the

power of the combination of designing visually and

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Out and About

by Barry R. Lee

The April meeting of LA Fox will be held on April 1995

1995, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place (the

Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance).

For details on how to get there, see the map on the

back page.

LA Fox Continues Its “Mini-DevCon” Series

La Fox will be continuing the mini-DevCon series

begun last month with Ken Levy. The next two ses-

sions will be as follows:

April 19, 1995, 7:30 PM - Tom Rettig. An Xbase

evangelist since 1981, Tom is internationally recog-

nized as an authority on the language and its various

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design and implementation of dBASE Ill as member of

Ashton-Tate’s development team, independently wrote

the original Clipper Extend Libraiy, and released two

award-winning products, Tom Rettig,’s Library and Tom

Rettig’s Help. He is currently upgrading his rapid

application product, Tom Rettig’s Office (TRO) to

Visual FoxPro. Tom has presented at every DevCon

and spoke again this year, giving a presentation on

“Introduction to Databases”.

May 9, 1995, 7:30 PM - George Goley. What can you

say about George that hasn’t already been said?

George is the founder of Micro Endeavors, Inc., the

world’s most successful FoxPro training and develop-

ment firm. He is the author of four database manage-

ment books, as well as a contributing editor to and

member of the Technical Advisory Board of Data

Based Advisor. His artides have appeared in DBA,

FoxTalk, Byte, and many other publications. His

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Inside This Issue

The Board Members

Delphi Reviewed

Making BROWSE Faster

Hot Tip

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