In this issue

Teach an Old Fox New Tricks

FoxPro Q&A

A Little Humor

Out and AboUt

by Barry R. Lee

Page 3

Page 6

Page 7

and much more

The LA Fox Developer

A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California

Visit our WebSite at: http://www.mesllc.com/lafox.html August 1998

The August meeting of LA Fox will be held

on Aug. 17, 1998, at 6:30 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.

Data Entry TEXTBOX Class

forY2K

by Judy Denison, RMFUG

More on Y2K: Here’s a Date Entry Textbox class (VFP 3.0/

5.0), incorporating some suggestions Jim Slater made during

his excellent presentation at the last Rocky Mountain Fox User

Group meeting.

The date format is set in the Windows Regional Settings (U.S.

or Canadian), and carried through by SET SYSFORMATS ON in

the form Load().

The value of nRolloverYear for the class may be overwritten for

an individual object, for instance for a birth date field.

If other code is necessary in a Date Entry Textbox object Valid()

method, insert this code at the beginning:

* Stay on field If not a valid date

IF NOT DateTextBox::Valid()

RETURN .F.

ENDIF

I’ve plunked this object down in 34 spots so far, replacing the

plain textbox that was there before.

You may be able to incorporate this code into your regular

textbox, using IFs to test whether it is for a date field.

New class: DateTextBox

Parent Class: pvsTextBox

Properties:

nRolloverYear (=1920)

Year before which 100 years are added to date

cNotify

Original setting of SET(’NOTIFY’)

Methods:

lnteractiveChange()

ValidO

When()

Format:

DK

(Con’t, page 4)

At LA Fox...

August 17, 1998,6:30 PM, Mike Vincent. Using ActiveX

Components with Visual FoxPro. ActiveX components can

enhance your VFP applications with a minimum of effort. We’ll

walk through a review of components available from dbi-Tech-

nologies, Microsoft and others to show you what’s available that

really works with VFP. Then we’ll look at how ActiveX controls

are implemented in VFP and look at the code for a couple of

examples.

Elsewhere...

O.C. Fox, AUGUST 19, Wednesday — SPECIAL MEETING! --

Doug Hennig of Stonefield Systems Group. Doug is the

author of Stonefield Database Toolkit, as well as some other

cool tools. He puts on a great presentation. A must-see just in

time for the 2nd Annual Southern California Visual Foxpro

Conference. (Ed.Note: Orange County FoxPro Developers

Group normally meets at 7:00 PM on the 2nd Wednesday of

each month at the Hard Disk Cafe at Ingram Micro, 1600 St.

Andrews, Santa Ana. From anywhere, take a freeway until you

get on the 55 between the 5 and the 405. Exit the 55 at Edinger

and go WEST on Edinger. Turn left on Grand, go to the next

lite, and left on St.Andrews. We meet in the Ingram Micro

building to your right. Go around to the east side of the build-

ing, and enter thru security.)

August 19-20, 1998, “You Can Teach an Old Fox New

Tricks”, DoubleTree Hotel, Costa Mesa, CA. If you don’t