The LA Fox Develooer Newsletter

June 1995

President’s Column (Con’t from page 2)

seen - so big that it is like a “point 0” release and

is therefore cause for hesitation and caution.

Although bugs are certain to appear, he expects

them at the edges of the product that have not yet

been explored. He believes the engine and core

elements are sound enough to support mission

critical apps with Visual FoxPro right now, and in

fact his company is doing so with several clients.

George kept going at full speed for 2 hours and

exhausted himself and the questions from the

audience. He probably crashed shortly thereafter

since he had just finished teaching the Micro En-

deavors training seminar for two full days before

arriving at our meeting.

I hope he saved enough energy to finish his Visual

FoxPro book soon. In the early FoxBase days he

was the leading (only?) book author, and I think his

FoxPro 2.5 book, Creating FoxPro Applications, is

the best of the bunch. With the wealth of ideas we

heard in this session, I expect the trend to continue.

GenScrnX Hot Tip (Con't from page 7)

At the time GroupWin is called, the current window is

ACTIVATED but is not visible. The old window is

visible but it isn’t the active window. The first line

within the IF statement moves the current window to

the same location as the old window. Both windows

are now stacked. The second line reactivates the old

window. Why? You would get screen flicker other-

wise. The third line makes the current window visible

but since it’s underneath the old window you can’t see

it. The last line releases the old window, leaving the

current window. (Upside: Best of all worlds. Down-

side: It takes longer to explain than it is to

executecg>.)

The GroupWin procedure is completely compatible

with the WINMOVE driver.

Comments?

Announcements

The annual dDay Fair is happening again this year.

This is a major opportunity for local database

oriented folks to meet and listen to several industry

leaders, all in one convenient place, without the

hassle and the price of most database confer-

ences. The date is June 24, and the place is the

Warner Center in Woodland Hills. The price is right

- $25. We will have order blanks at the meeting - or

call (818) 889-7022.

FEX (Con? from page 9)

robust apps in VFP will probably not be appearing

until about that time. Developers will need a tool to

cover their bases and speed up development time

while experiencing the substantial learning curve of

VFP. FEX can lighten the load while paying for

itself in time saved. Secondly, Neon will be releas-

ing a “visual” version of this piece shortly after VFP

appears in stores that will be Codebook-compliant

and will once again save development time by

enabling the developer to access already-estab-

lished class libraries. So it’s a win-win situation.

It Can’t Get Any Easier.......

We’ve come up with an easy way to submit article$ to

the LA Fox Developer Newsletter one that ha

been overlooked for a long time.

You can submit your articles to either Chuck Williams

(72330,2326) or Barry Lee (72723,3422) on

Compuserve.

These articles can be on any FoxPro-related topic,

whether it concerns a new technique you’ve discov-

ered, a certain development technique you may favor

over others, book reviews, etc.

The quality of this newsletter really depends on the

members that support it, not just read it. And I think

we’d all be surprised by the useful information that

could be circulated around the membership.

So.

How ‘bout it?

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