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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
July 1995
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This function returns the displacement value from the pushbutton to the outer edge of the border. Essentially it helps to answer the question ‘Where do we draw’?”.

The next thing is to add the functions to draw the thick borders. When the Find screen initially draws, the Find button should have the border. To accomplish that, I add:


to the bottom of the Setup snippet. This draws the black border around the Find button.

If the Find button is selected, we need to remove the border around the Find button and place it around the Select button. This is done as part of the Valid snippet for the Find button:


Voila!
Microsoft Releases Visual
FoxPro 3.0 to Manufacturing
(via CompuServe, from Kirk Nason, MS/Irvine)

REDMOND, Wash. June 19, 1995. Microsoft Corp. today announced it has released to manufacturing the Microsoft Visual FoxPro relational database management system version 3.0 for the Windows operating system, and that the product has officially qualified for the Windows 95 and Office Compatible 95 logos. Microsoft also simultaneously announced extensive enhancements to the Professional Edition of Visual FoxPro to further align the Professional Edition capabilities with those of the other members of the Microsoft visual development tools family. In addition, Microsoft announced a new computer- based training title, Mastering Visual FoxPro, which is a comprehensive tool designed to help experienced developers master Visual FoxPro.

Unveiled to thousands of developers at the International Developers conference in January 1995, Visual FoxPro 3.0 is a powerful, 32-bit, object- oriented development environment for rapid application development that offers greatly enhanced client- server capabilities and the power synonymous with the FoxPro name.

Professional Edition

The Professional and Standard Editions of Visual FoxPro 3.0 for Windows are designed to meet the distinct needs of two varied groups of software developers: professional developers and casual programmers. Offering two editions is consistent with Microsoft’s overall mission in creating development tools: to design and provide a range of tools that meet the needs of diverse developers and applications, rather than having all developers use one tool or methodology. Visual FoxPro 3.0, Professional Edition, contains the same run-time distribution capabilities as the 2.6 version, allowing developers to distribute royalty-free run times and related files of solutions they develop.

Visual FoxPro 3.0, Professional Edition, contains numerous additional development tools including a class browser, additional OLE Controls designed for multiapplication solutions, an Upsizing Wizard to
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