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A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
September 1995
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At the August meeting we reverted to the format of many of last years meetings, where members describe their own FoxPro applications. Bill Anderson and I gave a short description of the FoxPro Mac application we are working on for Stanford University. I lead off with a discussion about requirements definition and testing, Bill gave a demo of the running app showing menus, navigation, screen design, and report design, and we followed with a question and answer session.
This a registration system that manages enrollments for the Instructional Television Network, supports publication of course catalogs and broadcast schedules, calculates fees for all students, creates management deports arid financial reports, and exports data to a Great Plains Dynamics accounting system for custom invoice processing.
We showed samples of the diagramming techniques used for reaching agreement with users about requirements, and for documenting our solution. Process diagrams show how data flows from external sources through automated processes to data stores and system outputs. Navigation diagrams relate menu options to the screens and reports to show the dialog a user could follow to accomplish a particular task. For example, the report selection dialog showed how a user could specify the query for a particular management report.
We also discussed the importance of testing when the application involves the client’s finances
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in this case the business rules for calculating bills \emdash and showed the approach to creating
Where Does Code Go?
Terrific GUIs
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Out and About
September 18, 1995, 7:30 PM
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Les
Pinter. Les is well known in the FoxPro community for his knowledge and his wit. He has published a long standing, regular newsletter,
The Pinter FoxPro Letter,
is a regular columnist for Pinnacle’s
FoxTalk
newsletter, and has appeared in many other national publications and conferences In this return to
LA Fox,
he’ll be speaking to us about designing and building Class libraries in
VFP.
This should be a fun meeting don’t miss it.
October 16, 1995, 7:30 PM
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Savannah Brentnall. Savannah Brentnall is an independent consultant specializing in object orientation and is a founding partner of the
Visual Training Group,
which specializes in object technology training. Savannah and her company have recently joined forces with
Flash Creative Management
to offer VTG’s two-day course on object orientation to
FoxPro
audiences. She has spoken at conferences and user groups around the world and has programmed in Xbase since 1984.
It is only fitting that Savannah is speaking at October's meeting. It was just about two years ago, come October, that she spoke on object orientation, at an LA Fox meeting, and everyone thought, “Well, that’s nice and everything, but how does it apply to me?” My, how times have changed!
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rhe February meeting of
LA Fox will be held on Sept. 18, 1995, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place (the Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance). For details on how to get there, see the map on the back page.
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