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The LA Fox
Developer Newsletter
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May 1995
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Out and About
(Con't from page 3)
I recently received my copy in the mail and all I can say is, “It’s hot, hot, hot!!”. And this latest version even has docs with it. A review will appear in next month’s newsletter.
Member News. Stephen Bradford, of
Nuts & Bolts Computer Consulting,
was the winner of our surprise raffle last month. He, or should I say his six- and eight-year-old children, are the proud new “parents” of a bigger-than-lifesize DevCon Taz.
It was also suggested to me by one of our members at the last meeting, that we start a “FoxPro
Q&A”
column. It seemed like a good idea, so if anyone
out there has questions to throw at us, we’ll try our
best to find some answers. Just to get things started, I included some typical questions, from another newsletter, in this issue. Questions may be
given to either Chuck Williams or Barry Lee at the
meetings, or they may be phoned in, or posted to us
on
CompuServe. (Our numbers are all over this
issue.)
I’ve received quite a number calls from headhunters in the last few weeks looking for FoxPro developers and programmers. Since I’m currently overloaded, I
had to refer these calls to other individuals in the
group. If you wish your name to be included in this list of referrals, send your business card, along with a very brief resume (and if you’re looking for full-
time or contract work),
to Barry R. Lee, Microcomputer Engineering Services, P.O. Box 6624, Huntington Beach, CA 92615-6624. Or give it to me at one of our meetings. Or drop me a line on CompuServe. There’s absolutely no charge for the referral (I’m one of those nice guys) and if it keeps our members employed, so much the better. It’s also one of the other benefits of belonging to LA Fox.
Elsewhere....
The government has stepped in and blocked the sale of
Intuit
(Quicken, Quick Books,
etc.) to Microsoft. Since both Intuit and MS are in favor of the sale, you can expect a long drawn-out appeal.
Flash Creative Management, in their latest news
letter (“The Flash Consultant”), has announced
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[Ed. Note: The following has been reprinted from The Greater Rochester Fox User Group Newsletter in response to a request from one of our members. This is just to get your juices flowing. The original column name, in their newsletter, is “FoxGeek” and
appears
on a regular basis. If you wish to see a regular column like this in our newsletter or have any questions you wish answered in print, submit your responses or questions to Chuck Williams or Barry Lee.]
Dear FoxGeek,
I have a routine in which I multiply a tax rate by a sales
amount, I
get a value with four digits to the right of the
decimal. I only want two
decimal places to show the tax
due. SET DECIMAL TO 2 and SET FIXED ON don’t seem to work. What should I do?
—
Marcia Clark
Dear Marcy,
If your goal is to display the result with two decimal
places, use the PICTU RE clause of the SAY command.
If you plan on using or storing the result, use the
ROUNDO command.
Dear FoxGeek,
I am writing a program in both FPD2.5 and FPW2.5. I
can’t seem to get the ON SHUTDOWN command to
work in the DOS version. What am I doing
wrong?
—
Lance Ito
Dear Lance,
ON SHUTDOWN allows one to have code executed as
the application is closing down. This is important in environments like Windows and the Mac, where external events, like leaving Windows or shutting down the
Mac, force the application to close. ON SHUTDOWN
does not work in DOS and is really not needed.. In fact, even the compiler rejects it. To get around that you would need to implement the following code:
Dear FoxGeek,
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