The LA Fox Develover Newsiefler

October 1995

The LA Fox Developer is the monthly newslet-

ter of the LA Fox User Group. The purpose is

information sharing among application develop-

ers and users working with FoxPro.

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2210 Wilshire Blvd. - #161

Santa Monica, CA 90403

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(714)639-3318

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VFP - 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 - 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 com-

mand 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.

(Con’t, page 3)

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