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 accom-

plish 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 experi-

enced developers master Visual FoxPro.

Unveiled to thousands of developers at the Interna-

tional Developers conference in January 1995,

Visual FoxPro 3.0 is a powerful, 32-bit, object-

oriented development environment for rapid applica-

tion 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 develop-

ment 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, Profes-

sional Edition, contains the same run-time distribu-

tion capabilities as the 2.6 version, allowing develop-

ers 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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