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The LA
Fox
Develover Newsiefler
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October 1995
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The LA Fox Developer
is the monthly newsletter of the LA Fox User Group. The purpose is information sharing among application developers and users working with
FoxPro.
LA
Fox Address:
LA
Fox User Group
977 Ash bridge Lane
Harbor
City,
CA 90710
LA Fox Board of Directors
Chuck Williams, President
Barry Lee, Vice President/Newsletter Editor
Allen Garfein, Treasurer/Membership
George Dvorak
Bill Seldon
Mike Cummings
Bill Anderson
LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in Southern California.The newsletter contains regular columns and articles from other user groups.
XPro User Group
2210 Wilshire Blvd.
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#161
Santa Monica, CA 90403
OC
FoxPro Developers Group
Subscriptions
The annual membership fee for the LA Fox
User Group, including subscription to
The LA
Fox
Developer Newsletter,
is $45.
Disclaimer
Neither the LA Fox User Group, the XPro User Group, the OC MS FoxPro Developers Group, their officers or board of directors or their members make any express or implied warranties of any kind with regard to any information disseminated, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.
Opinions provided by newsletter articles, or by speakers, members, or guests who address the meetings, are individual opinions only, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the group. All opinions and information should be carefully considered, and the group is not liable for any incident or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing or use of any information or opinions. Brand names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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VFP
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Now What?
(Con’t from page 1)
and so on. Make sense?
2. Read the README file. About 20% of the questions on the FoxForum could have been answered had people read this file...
2. Learn the lingo. Here’s a quick summary of some of the hot terms:
The file with a DBF extension that we used to call a database is a table. The term database refers to a collection of one or more tables (and some other stuff, to boot.)
The menu that appears when you right click in many places is called a shortcut menu. Others have called it a context menu, but this has fallen out of favor recently. You can also call it ‘that menu that shows up when you right click’ but people won’t respect you anymore.
Those square (rectangular?) that we use to enter data are
called forms, not screens.
However, you can still
type
MODIFY SCREEN
in the Visual FoxPro command window and it will bring forward the Form Designer. Go figure.
Encapsulation is that funny chill you get when you open up a Diet Coke and find the words ‘You’ve won $1 000,000' on the underside of the cap. It also refers to the binding of data and code together in a single object.
The things you put onto forms are called controls
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even those that don’t do anything, like labels or rectangles. And many of these controls have new names. Pushbuttons are now called command buttons, radio buttons are now option buttons, and collections of command buttons/option buttons are called command groups/option button groups.
An OCX is the 32 bit version of a VBX that we know from Visual Basic. Both of these are OLE Controls and allow you to add controls to your application that aren’t native to Visual FoxPro. VFP will not support VBXs, but any VBX manufacturer that wants to stay in business will be porting their controls to OCXs this fall.
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