The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 2000

industry has changed dramatically; amazing new technologies

and record-breaking mergers are reshaping the competitive

landscape all the time. This incredible pace of technological

change is the clearest evidence of the competitive environment

in which Microsoft and every other company must operate, and

continue to innovate, if they are going to survive and prosper.

Microsoft’s past success has been built on innovation and

creativity. Our future success depends on our ability to keep

innovating in the fastest-moving marketplace on earth. As we

strive to deliver the next generation of software products to help

improve people’s lives, we will continue to run our business

based on a set of core values that have evolved over the last

quarter century: integrity, innovation, customer focus and

partnership.

We are proud of the great work our employees have done

creating software that increases business productivity, connects

people, entertains, informs and helps children learn. We also

are proud of the role we have played in helping create a technol-

ogy industry that truly is the engine of America’s economy.

We appreciate the continuing support of our customers, part-

ners and shareholders.

Sincerely,

Some Cool Tips (Con’t from prey, column)

without worrying about the System attribute.

Another setting you can add to Desktop.ini:

lconFile=ThisFolder.ico

lconlndex=O

This will use your ThisFolder icon instead of the Windows

default. If you “customize” the folder with the Customizing

wizard, it will build a desktop.ini. You can just add your InfoTip

to it.

Reference: Microsoft Knowledge Base, “Shell Basics”

(Ed. Note: Dan Covill is one of my “partners-in-crime”, in that

he is the newsletter editor for the FoxDev TipsLetter, published

by the FoxPro Developers Network of San Diego. You can visit

their website at www.elsoftware.com.]

Some Cool Tips (Con't from page 8)

The first thing you have to do is create a “desktop.ini” file, in the

directory itself. Using any text editor (NOT a Word processor),

enter the following:

[.ShellClasslnfol

ConfirmFileOp=O

InfoTip=This is the tooltip I want displayed

The other thing you have to do is make the directory itself a

System file, so the desktop.ini will be examined. You can use

Explorer (“properties”) to see whether it’s a system file, but you

can’t set it from there. Open a command window (Start I

Programs I DOS), and enter the command:

attrib +s “C:\program flles\IBX32” (or whatever)

** You have to use quotes if there is a space in the

pathname.

Exit back to Windows, Explore, and hover your mouse over the

folder. Voila’ (It works in either the regular or Explore view,

but not in the Explore’s treeview frame.)

Side effects:

The ConfirmFileOp=O

entry allows you to delete the folde

(Con’t, next column)

It Can’t Get Any Easier.......

We’ve come up with an easy way to submit articles to the LA

Fox DeveloperNewsletter one that has been overlooked for

a long time.

You can submit your articles to Barry Lee at CIS# 72723,3422

on Compuserve, orbrlee@earthlink.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.

So

How ‘bout it?

Chairman

Secue Ballmer

President and Chief Executive Officer

NOLA

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April 14-18, 2000

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