The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1997

Spring Conference ‘97 FAQs

by Barry R. Lee

With so much going on during the two days of the confer-

ence, what will be the best way of “seeing” it?

Our first suggestion is to find someone you know, either from

your area of the country or someone you’ve met at a previous

DevCon, who’s going to the conference, and split up the ses-

sions between the two of you. That way, you won’t miss out on

any of the “impromptu” notes or the “Oh, by the way, here’s

something that isn’t in my session notes” that sometimes occur

at these events. That is, of course, providing your partner is a

good note-taker. <g> And, as previously mentioned, all “official”

conference notes will be available in the notebook that will be

handed to you as you register.

What about the sessions? When are they scheduled?

When does everything begin?

The conference will have the following general schedule. We will

be mailing out booklets, approx. 30 days prior to the event,

which will have the details of who’s speaking when, so you’ll

have ample time to plan your attendance at the sessions. For

those attendees arriving on Friday, there will be early registra-

tion Friday evening. During this conference, there will be five

tracks going simultaneously (four speaker tracks and a

“product-speaker” track). Each session will follow the format of

a 60-minute presentation and 15 minutes for Q&A, for a total of

75 minutes per session. Extra time is being allowed during the

breaks, rather than just 15 minutes so that yo:i may visit the

Trade Show.

Are there User’s Group discounts, or discounts for group

registration?

No.

Do you accept credit card payments?

Yes. However, the price reflects a cash discount. Credit card

users must pay the full price of $259.

What about hotels and airlines?

- Hotel: We have secured discounted rooms at the rate of

$89.00 per room. To get this discount, you must call the LAX

Westin directly at (310) 216-5858 (not their “800” number). Be

sure to tell them that you are making reservations for the

‘MICROCOMPUTER ENGINEERING SERVICES room block”.

This price will be honored 3 days prior and 3 days after the

event. You will need a credit card to hold the reservation.

- Airlines: We have secured a 5% discount of any published

fares on United or Delta. To get these special rates, you or your

travel agent will need to call one of the following phone numbers.

United’s meetings desk phone number is 1-800-521-4041. Our

meeting ID Code for United is “513DA”. Delta’s meeting desk

phone number is 1-800-241-6760. Our file number for Delta is

“XHO3I”.

Business Objects (Con’t from page 5)

An additional benefit of such a State class would be to create a

method to calculate sales tax for that state. A chain of stores

can then easily report their particular state’s sales tax without

having to have a separate customized program for each loca-

tion.

As you can see, OOP utilizing polymorphism correctly, can be

very powerful. Also, with a little bit of foresight, creating one

more layer of objects can open the door to a tremendous

number of opportunities reuse and growth.

VFP Hot Tip

by Michael Meer

Do not use “_VFP” in any of your projects. Always use

“_SCREEN” instead. If VFP is not fully installed on the target

machines, the program will give the end user an “OLE” error.

Although this is usually not a fatal error, it can make the

program programmer look bad.

foxtools.fU (Con't from page 4)

Returns: .T.

Return Value: Logical

Editor And Window Functions:

A group of functions starting with _Ed... and _W... map to editor

and window functions that are exposed in the FoxPro 2.5

Library Construction Kit (a separate product that allows you to

extend FoxPro using the C programming language). See the

documentation in that product for details of these functions.

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 Barry Lee at CIS# 72723,3422

on Compuserve, or brlee@earthllnk.net.

These articles can be on any FoxPro-related topic, whether it

concerns a new technique you’ve discovered, a certain develop-

ment technique you may favor over others, book reviews, etc.

Editor reserves the right to edit or offer constructive comments

concerning submitted articles and accepted articles shall be

considered to be in the public domain.

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.

How ‘bout it?

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