The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

October 1995

VFP for the Non-Guru (Con't from page 5)

Developer’s Guide, creates a unique variable for

the NAME option for referencing a particular in-

stance of the form. The LINKED option allows

releasing all instances of the form when the array

(TstArray) is released

4. The relevant properties of the form TestForm

are set as follows: DataSession = 2 - Private Data

Session, and WindowType = 0 - Modeless. Simi-

larly, for the cursor in the data environment, Exclu-

sive.F.-False.

The above provides the basic structure to allow

multiple instances of the same form. The user is

able to view and manipulate data with several

copies independently. However, an additional

issue, not discussed here, that must be resolved is

managing buffering and related conflicts.

Other options that can be addressed programmati-

cally include cascading the instances of form,

maximum number of instances of the form available

to the user, and numbering the different instances

of the form.

(John Me/ton is President of CFO Software and is

on the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain

Fox User Group in Denver, Colorado. He has been

developing database applications in dBase and

FoxPro for 12 years. He can be reached by phone

or FAX at (303) 699-5888.]

The Lighter Side (Con't from page 8)

The biggest problem is before you can drink any

one of them you have to buy a really expensive bag

of chips to go with it.

(From Jeff Fischer, The Fischer Group

tfg@primenet. com -+- http://www.primenet.com!

—tfg/)

Out and About (Con? from page 8)

used to protect computer software. The justices will

start by reviewing a controversial lower court ruling

that denied Lotus Development Corp. copyright

protection from Borland for a central element of its

popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet program. In case

any of you have forgotten, Lotus is now a division

of IBM.

From the Visual FoxPro Forum....

IMPORTANT NOTICE

For people that downloaded the file ISSUES.ZIP

before Sept. 29 1995:

It has come to our attention that the file ISSUES.ZIP

that was uploaded to Library one of both FoxForum

and the VFOX forum contained a Word file that was

infected with the Prank macros.

We appologize to everyone who downloaded this

infected file.

If you have this file and want more information about

the prank macros and how you can clean them there

is a text file in library one of the FoxForum and the

VFOX forums. Text file explains where you can get

the SCAN document in order to scan for and clean

out the prank macros.

It is recommended that you do take the time to scan

for this macro. Although the macro is not considered

to be destructive it can cause data loss as it affects

the Save functionality.

It Can’t Get Any Easier......

We’ve come up with an easy way to submit articles to

the LA Fox Developer Newsletter one that has

been overlooked for a long time.

You can submit your articles to either Chuck Williams

(72330,2326) or Barry Lee (72723,3422) on

Compuserve.

These articles can be on any FoxPro-related topic,

whether it concerns a new technique you’ve discov-

ered, a certain development technique you may favor

over others, book reviews, etc.

The quality of this newsletter really depends on the

members that support it, not just read it. And I think

we’d all be surprised by the useful information that

could be circulated around the membership.

So.

How ‘bout it?

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