The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

SeDtember 1998

From Robin’s Nest...

WindowState and More

by Robin Connelly, LA Fox

Screen.WindowState = 2

is the same as saying

ZOOM window screen max

(The oops technique _screen... is a tiny bit faster about

0.3%, that is less than one percent difference, measure over

multiple 1000 iteration runs with both static and resized window

between commands. Actually, if the window is already maxi-

mized the oops technique wins by over 30% faster, but the

elapsed times for already maximzied were 3/100,000 of a

second compared to 2/100,000 of a second. Only way to even

geta timing is to iterate 1000 times or more.)

VFP help for WindowState

Specifies whether a form window is displayed as a maximized,

minimized, or normal window at run time. Available at design

time and run time.

Syntax

[Object.]WindowState[ = nState]

Settings

nState The settings for the WindowState property are:

Setting. Description

0

Normal

I

Minimized (minimized to an icon). If the main Visual

FoxPro window is minimized when Visual FoxPro is

exited, the main Visual FoxPro window isn’t displayed

before exiting. If you application displays a dialog before

exiting, be sure to set _SCREEN.WindowState to 0

before displaying the dialog.

2

Maximized (enlarged to fill the screen)

(Ed. Note: Robin is a valuable asset and resource to LA Fox.

He maybe reached at his company, QuoteDesk,

robin©quotedesk.com.J

Hot Tip (Con’t from adjacent column)

With VFP under win95, this results in the error “Entry Point

OpenComm not found”. To resolve this use:

OpenComm = RegFN(”OpenComm” , “®CII•

user.exe”)

Humor from the ‘Net

Contributed by Brad Schulz

1.

Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

2.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

3.

I doubt, therefore I might be.

4.

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to

say it.

5.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large

groups.

6.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

7.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday

8.

Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty

things.

9.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how

to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

10. Women like silent men, they think they’re listening.

I If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?

12.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do

it?

13.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

14.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Hot Tip.

How to resolve the error message “Entry Point Not found”

when trying to Register an API function using Foxtools’

RegFnØ?

In Fox 2.6, the FoxTools’ RegFn is used to register calls to the

Windows API. But sometimes “Entry Point Not found” error

message occurs. This error message comes when the speci-

fied function is not found in the libraries which are searched by

default. To resolve this, explicitly specify the name of the library

in which the function is found, as the fourth parameter to

RegFnO.

Example:

To register the function “OpenComm” under FoxPro 2.6 the

following is used:

OpenComm = RegFN(”OpenComm”,”~cII” ,“I”)

(Con't, adjacent column)

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