The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

May 1995

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 sur-

prise 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, Microcom-

puter Engineering Services, P.O. Box 6624, Hun-

tington 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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FoxPro Q&A

[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 exter-

nal 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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