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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
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February 2000
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A Note from Tamar Granor
To: My friends and colleagues
I want to let you know about a big change at FoxPro Advisor. For sometime, the other Advisor publications have been operating on a model in which the Managing Editor holds the reins and there is no single outside Editor. Instead, several Technical Editors help the Managing Editor shape the technical content of the magazine. Now it’s FoxPro Advisor’s turn to make this change.
Beginning immediately, Liz Olsen, the Managing Editor, will be in charge of the magazine and my role will change from Editor to Technical Editor. I think this change will be good for the magazine. I’ve enjoyed editing FoxPro Advisor all these years and have gained many valuable skills. Now I’m looking forward to having more time for development work and other opportunities.
Tamar
Message from Internet...
Microsoft Corp. has postponed until 2001 the delivery of the next version of its Visual Studio tool suite
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key technology for building and deploying Windows-based electronic-commerce applications. Delivery of Visual Studio 7.0, scheduled to ship this year, is now “at least a year away” because of development work being done to build support for Windows DNA (Distributed Internet Architecture) 2000 into the suite, said Dave Mendlen, a tools product planner at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), in Redmond, Wash.
Get a Scoop on Everyone Else...
The session schedule for the NOLA conference is about to be
published. You can get an advanced look at it by going to the
LA Fox Website,
http://www.lafox.org,
and downloading “NOLA
Session Schedule B.doc”.
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Hot Tips...
When you drop labels onto a form, the Label.BackColor doesn’t default to the Form. BackColor even though that’s almost always what you want. Then, if you change the Form.BackColor, you might find yourself having to go back and changing all your Label.BackColor properties to match.
Or, you could set each Label.BackStyle property to 0-Transparent. This will allow the color of the form to bleed through to the label. There are several Visual FoxPro controls besides Labels that also support the BackStyle property. The BackStyle property is set to 1
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Opaque by default.
This kind of change is the reason you should subclass all the
FoxPro base class controls before creating forms. You
can
create a subclass of Labels with the BackStyle property set to
0 and always use that label class.
Right-Click in the Properties Window
You can right click any property in the Property Sheet
and
return values to their default state. This is especially useful when you want to reset an object’s attribute to allow that object to exhibit the Parent Class’s behavior. For example, if you’re using a Label class definition that has FontBold
=
.T., but this instance of the object has FontBold
=
.F., you can recall the Class Definition’s default simply by right-clicking and choosing “Reset to Default”.
This behavior also applies to the Methods in the Property Sheet! In other words, you can remove all method code from the method listing by right- clicking. This is a handy way to reset the current object instance to run the Class Definition’s method code. There is no confirmation dialog, however, so you could wind up removing essential code. If you accidentally reset your method code to default, you can get it back by exiting your Form Designer session and answering “No” to “Do you want to save changes to Form Designer
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myform.scx?”
“c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vfp98\vfp6.exe”
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bmyphoto.bmp or this will work: “c:\program files/microsoft visual studio\vfp98\vfp6.exe” -bmyphoto.bmp c:\app\app.prg or this: myapp.exe -bmyphoto.bmp
Check the speed of splash screen load. Think of the potential of making a photo with Adobe Photoshop for your splash screen compared to any form. This does not work with gif orjpg files.
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