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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
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December 1998
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Hentzenwerke Publishing is now shipping
two
books from its “Essentials for Visual FoxPro 6.0” series. Effective Technicues fnr Application Development with Visual FoxPro 6.0 by Jim Booth and Steve Sawyer went out just before Thanksgiving. And much to the chagrin of mail carriers and delivery drivers, Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 by
Tamar
Granor and Ted
Hacker’s Guide
Roche started out the week after Thanksgiving.
ended up being a
little
bit bigger than originally planned. “We had planned on a thousand-page 7” x 9” book. Instead, we got a phone book!”, said Whil Hentzen.
The 1999 Software Developer’s Guide, by Whil Hentzen, will be the next book released. “It could ship by the end of the year. It will just depend on the printer’s schedule.”, Whil said. Look for Markus Egger’s
OOP
book and Rick Strahl’s Internet book in January.
[Ed. Note: The Hacker’s Guide weighs in at a svelte 6.5 lbs.! For more information about these and other books, check-in at
Whil’s
site...http://www.hentzenwerke.com.]
Many thanks to
Foxtalk
for the following tip:
John Petersen (you know him as Dr. FoxPro) has come up with a realty cool idea. In Explorer, when you click on VFP objects like forms or projects, VFP loads and opens the appropriate tool
—the Form Designer or the Project Manager. However, when you click on a PRG, VFP attempts to compile and execute the program. How many times do you actually desire that effect? Same for John. He, too, wants to load VFP and then open up the PRG in an editing window. Here’s how he hacked Explorer to make it happen.
First, create a program (a VFP .PRG) in VFP’s home directory:
Iparameter m.tcFite modify command (m.tcFile) nowait
Next, in
Explorer, under the View menu, Options menu option, File Type tab, scroll down until you get to the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Program file entry. Then press the Edit button to bring forward the Edit File Type dialog box. Highlight the OPEN Action in the list box at the bottom of the dialog box and press the Edit button under the list box. The “Editing Action for” dialog
box appears. The entry probably says something like this:
"C:\VFP\VFP.EXE" -SHELL
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VFP Hot Tip
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Change
it to this:
C:\VFP\VFP.EXE” C:\VFP\MYEDIT.PRG
(If the DDE check box underneath is.selected, clear it.
Go ahead and close
all of the dialog boxes, exit VFP if it’s
open, and then
double-click on a PRG file in Explorer. VFP opens and brings up the PRG in question in a command editing window. Pretty nice.
One note: If you’ve got VFP in a directory that contains spaces
in
its name, you’ll need to use the DOS 8.3 version of the
directory name.
Our client is seeking a developer with 2+ years experience in VFP. At least four years of overall database design/programming experience is required. This is a mid-level position with
salary ranging from 40K-50K with excellent benefits. If inter
ested, please let us know. If you know someone, please let us know. We
will pay a referral fee of $500 after a successful placement.
Sam Shahab
SysLogic, Inc.
909.278.1344
909.278.1394 Fax
sshaahab@syslogic.net
It Can’t Get Any Easier.......
We’ve come up with an easy way to submit articles to the
LA
Fox DeveloperNewsietter
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@earthlink.net
These articles can be on any FoxPro-related topic, whether it concerns a new technique you’ve discovered, a certain development 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.
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