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The LA Fox Develo per
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Last Meeting
With Jeff Knight as the speaker, our January meeting contained a higher than usual level of entertainment to go along with the technical information. Jeff showed an updated version of his uniquely designed application that serves the needs of doctors and administrators in hospital emergency rooms. It tracks everything about patients, from administrative and insurance details to symptoms, treatments, and drugs administered. In the emergency room, users must be able to access and enter information very quickly, and must be able to understand and operate the app with essentially no training.
To meet those requirements, Jeff designed a very effective user interface operated by a light pen. He does not use standard FoxPro Reads or Browses because they are too slow, but instead relies on Inkey and mouse down functions. The displays are very dense with information, and look crowded to the uninitiated, but the medical folks prefer this approach because they can grasp a large amount of data in one quick view without flipping between screens. Working on DOS platform, Jeff built his own tab style interface, before it became vogue to do so, and modified the character sets to create raised buttons and other graphical effects that rival Windows. The result is easily understandable displays, very rapid data entry, very intuitive navigation, and instant screen refresh. (Note that in this case data access speed is less important than screen refresh speed, so the thing that FoxPro brings to the party is not Rushmore but flexibility in designing the interface.) The app currently runs on a DOS platform, for reasons of screen speed and
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Out and About
LA
Fox
Becomes a Mini-Devcon
The next three months will be like a mini-DevCon at
LA
Fox.
So get your pencils out and write down these
dates and times:
March 15, 1995, 7:30 PM
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Ken Levy. Ken Levy is a Software Engineer in the Product Development Group at Flash Creative Management, Inc. Before joining Flash, Ken specialized in Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. His GENSCRNX program revolutionized development in the
FoxPro
community. Ken was also a major presenter at this years DevCon, speaking on
Visual FoxPro’s
“Visual Class Designer’, as well as filling in for Rob Copeland in “Managing Class Libraries”.
April 19, 1995,
7:30 PM
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Tom Rettig. An Xbase evangelist since 1981, Tom is internationally recognized as an authority on the language and its various dialects and implementations. He worked on the 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
Libraiy
and
Tom
Rettig’s
Help.
He is currently upgrading his rapid
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The March meeting of
LA Fox
will be held on Marct
15, 1995, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place the Torrance Airport,
3301
Airport Drive,
in Tor
rance). For details on how to get there, see the
map on the back page.
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