The LA Fox Develoøer Newsletter

June 1995

Drag and Drop (Con't from page 5)

LPARAMETERS oSource, nXcoord, nYcoord, nState

This sets cursor shape when leaving or entering this object.

do case

case nState 0 && Entering this object

oSource.DragIcon=this.paretn.CanTargetIcon

case nState = I && Leaving this object

oSource.DragIcon = this.paretn.NoDropicon

endcase

Keep in mind that oSource is "istSource", our Drag

source. We change the cursor from the circle and

slash (NODROPOI .CUR) to a bullseye whenever the

cursor is over our drop target. Since both our targets

are images and behave in the same way, this code is

identical for either target.

2. The DragDrop method is what gets executed

when the “drop” portion occurs. For these two targets

the code is nearly identical:

For the Screen Picture object, the code reads:

and for the Printer Picture Object, the code looks

like:

We’re done! Run the form and bingo, truly profes-

sional results?

Files for this demo were all contained in a single

directory. They have been zipped and are available

on CompuServe in the VFP Beta Forum, section 4

[Samples], under the name VFP_DRAG.ZIP. If you

have any questions or comments feel free to post a

message to me at CIS: 73257,1324.

(Ed. Note: Productive Solutions is a business soft-

ware development consultancy focused on a win-

ning cost-benefit relationship with regard to increas-

ing client productivity and reducing client costs.

Productive Solutions also creates, markets and

supports commercial applications thr9ugh private

business channels, including toUth-s&een applica-

tions and applications with internal modem connec-

tions to remote data sources. David A. Greene is

also a Microsoft Windows 3.1 Certified Professional.]

Out and About (Con't from page 3)

Just in time for the release of Windows 95, now

cemented for August of this year, the Justice De-

partment has stepped up its investigation of

Microsoft Corp. because of concern that the soft-

ware giant may use “unfair tactics” to break into on-

line computer business. As of June 10, the .~

department’s antitrust division gave on-line commer-

cial companies - Prodigy, Compuserve, and America

On-Line - one week to document their concerns.

This Just In IBM, as of Sunday, June 11, 1995,

turned a hostile bid to take over Lotus into a friendly

takeover and the largest software deal in history.

Jim Manzi will remain in a vice-president’s position

with IBM, while IBM retains most of his Lotus devel-

opment team. I wonder if the Feds are going to take

as close a look at IBM as they’re doing with

Microsoft. Anyway, best of luck to them they’re

going to need it.

New in This Issue. “Ask the Foxster", a FoxPro

Q&A column begins on a regular basis. The pur-

pose of this column is to provide a forum in Which

members of the group may pose questions or

explore techniques related to FoxPro. Also included

in this issue are articles by David A. Greene, a new

and welcome contributor, and Bill Anderson, one of

the mainstays of the group.

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