http://opentech.leafe.com Threaded Message Boards for Visual FoxPro, Linux and more! en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:05:42 -0400 Zope Python Script 1 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2524 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2524 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:14:32 EST First Post: The OpenTech message boards will be taken offline at the end of 2008. There simply is not enough traffic to warrant the time spent managing the site. For Codebook users, who make up the bulk of the traffic on the site, I will keep the Codebook email list open. You can post your questions to that list, and carry on the same sort of conversations you have here. If you aren't subscribed to the Codebook email list, go to the [url=http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/codebook]Mailing List Page[/url] to subscribe. It's free! (Replies: 2) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2523 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2523 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:07:09 EST First Post: Hi. I lately revised this code, and noticed that sp_NewID calling manner doesn't work for me at all. It only works for MSSQL Server backend. Only working calling syntax for all MSSQL, FirebirdSQL and PostgreSQL backend is [code:1:dbdc60820c]SQLEXEC(lnHandle, [{CALL sp_NewID (?tcBaseTable)}], "newid")[/code:1:dbdc60820c] instead of [code:1:dbdc60820c]SQLEXEC(lnHandle, "sp_NewID " + tcBaseTable, "newid")[/code:1:dbdc60820c] Maybe someone could verify this under MySQL? Regards Jacek Kalucki (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2522 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2522 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:07:28 EST First Post: Hi all I have a strong argument from Universal Thread that Grid.Destroy() should be allowing me to save the columns width and order from Grid.Destroy() but when I do the following: [code:1:0b0637748c]MESSAGEBOX(this.ColumnCount) DODEFAULT() MESSAGEBOX(this.ColumnCount)[/code:1:0b0637748c] I get zero for both the calls. I have tried to look up cGird, iGrid, iSecGrid and the grid itself on the form class but I could nto find any obvious place where the columns are released. Anyone can shed light on this. Thanks. (Replies: 5) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2521 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2521 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:00:17 EST First Post: Hi all cGrid has a method Release() that was added to make this method available as for other controls / form, but sadly coding it is wasted as the framework does not call Release() for the grid when the form is released. The time of Grid.Destroy() is too late for me to save column settings for use in the Grid.Init() for resetting columns. I can always add a property that duplicates the columncount value in Grid.Init() and use it in the Grid.Destroy(), hopefully. What is the idea behind Release() for every control? Does it work for other controls like textbox, etc. when the form is released()? Please advise. UPDATE: Nope Grid.Destroy() is too late the columns too are gone. (Replies: 6) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2517 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2517 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:53:08 EST First Post: Earlier this year I finished a small multiple database application in CodeBook, and it's been running well. After reviewing the knowledgebase I hadn't been sure if CodeBook could handle multiple databases, though I understood it had been written with that in mind. Although there isn't a lot in the archives about multiple databases, it works pretty well out of the box, except that you need to use dbpaths. Dbpaths can be found elsewhere in the distribution. Some extra programming is required, but nothing out of line. I appreciate the effort that people put into making CodeBook as robust as it is! (Replies: 6) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2520 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2520 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:27:40 EST First Post: The next meeting of the Philadelphia VFP User Group will be next Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00 PM. We'll meet at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.) As usual, feel free to bring dinner and come as early as 6:30. This month, we'll begin an exploration of VFPX. Bob Pierce and Tamar Granor will show some of the VFPX projects, including the Property and Method dialog replacements, FoxCharts, GDIPlusX, and the Outlook Bar control. VFPX is an Visual FoxPro community open source project dedicated to enhancing and extending Visual FoxPro. It includes developer tools, enhanced controls, the Sedna components, the various Xbase tools that come with VFP, and more. The items to be shown at this meeting range across the spectrum of VFPX projects. They in (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2519 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2519 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:39:47 EST First Post: December 9th will be our last and best meeting of 2008, a night of short presentations from our members and an evening of Christmas cheer. Mike, Steve, Randy, Tom, and Bill have volunteered to show -- an approach used for sending program and data updates to desktop users and getting around problems with Vista permissions. -- a Mind Mapping tool used to track and display unsystematic data. -- Analyst.app, the VFPX Source Code Analyzer that Andrew McNeil reviewed at SouthWest Fox. -- interesting takes on Docu-Wiki. -- a few grid enhancement libraries, and if time allows, interesting uses for the web browser control on a VFP form. Anyone else??? It's buffet style. Just announced -- FUDG will not be getting a government bailout. We had to raise dues to $90 per year starting in January. Pay by the meeting $10. First time attendees no charge. Times are tough. All the more reason to support, attend, and build your organization. The insights, connections, and inspiration we get from the grou (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2515 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2515 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:36:11 EST First Post: Servoy is a Java-based development and deployment environment and we enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to build rich on-premise and SaaS applications. We have had the pleasure of meeting and working with a lot of experienced FoxPro developers now - and they tell us they like these features of Servoy: - Version Control - The Developer Interface (its familiar) - SQL Backend - without having to run queries yourself - Deployment - you can deploy to Web and/or LAN from the same code base - The Looks and Feel (LaF) - looks like Mac on a Mac, looks like Windows on Windows If this sounds intriguing to you, we'd love to have you download a FREE trial version today. For more information, please email Aaron Archer at aarcher@servoy.com - he is our FoxPro/Servoy expert. Or if you prefer, check us out here: www.servoy.com/foxpro. We also have some FREE resources coming up that you can take advantage of: - Free Webinar: 'Servoy vs .NET Showdown' - Nov. 12th ([url]https://www1.gotomeeting.com/ (Replies: 1) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2518 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2518 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:50:56 EST First Post: Join us to learn more about one of the leading frameworks for serving web pages from VFP. Dave Martin of I/O Technologies of Wauwatosa, WI will be in town showing a product for developers to collaborate in projects over the Internet. From an I/O press release: "TaskASAP is an online, web-based team task management application accessible over the internet. The software runs on Microsoft web servers running Internet Information Server (IIS). It is an ideal solution for companies who receive work requests from multiple clients and assign tasks to multiple staff members. The user interface is kept simple to ensure that the focus is on managing tasks rather than learning a new system. Backed by an e-mail notification system, everyone associated with a task stays informed every step of the way. Reports and timecards are generated in PDF format to ensure universal readability." http://www.iotechno.com/news20050415.html Be there! Fill some empty space between your ears. Usual time and place: 5:30 November (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2516 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2516 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:14:06 EST First Post: The next meeting of the Philadelphia VFP User Group will take place next Tuesday, November 11. Bob Pierce will lead a session on "The Conference Experience." For those of you who couldn't attend the SouthWest Fox conference this year, this is your chance to find out what's new with our favorite tool. We will start off with video of the keynote presentation and cover several topics discussed at the conference. This will include updates on Christof's Guineu project, the eTecnologia Extender/Compiler, and the VFPX project. In addition, Bob will introduce an exciting client/server platform, the Advantage Database Server, which promises to make it much easier for VFP developers to make the move to a server based SQL backend. There will be some giveaway goodies from the conference, as well. The meeting will take place at 7 PM at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2514 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2514 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:12:28 EST First Post: Greetings; I am trying to 'Install the Dabo Framework' from http://dabodev.com/wiki/InstallationOnWindows instructions. I downloaded " http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c2-py2.6.egg " per instructions, then re-ran "python setup.py install". But all I get are a lot of error msgs , see attached *.jpg . It looks like setup is trying to down load avove file from internet. Anyways, can someone please give me better instructions, for WinXp Home, (python 2.6 , and wxPython2.8 Docs and Demos) already installed . C:\Program Files\Python26\DABO\dabo BTW: How do I include an ATTACHMENT (Greetings; I am trying to 'Install the Dabo Framework' from http://dabodev.com/wiki/InstallationOnWindows instructions. I downloaded " http://cheeseshop.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c2-py2.6.egg " per instructions, then re-ran "python setup.py install". But all I get are a lot of error msgs , see attached *.jpg . It looks like setup is trying to down load (Replies: 7) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2513 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2513 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:48:22 EST First Post: Our special guest for our October 14 meeting will be Christof Wollenhaupt. He'll be here all the way from Germany en route to the SouthWest Fox conference. This is one meeting you don't want to miss!! The first topic, [u:a0f5be76a5]Mobile Development with Guineu and VFP[/u:a0f5be76a5], will be introduced with Christof's take on the future of Visual Foxpro. [i:a0f5be76a5]Mobile devices are a natural extension for many Visual FoxPro applications. They allow you to collect and retrieve information whenever and whereever needed. This session is an introduction for developers that haven't yet developed for mobile devices. We cover the basics of Windows Mobile, limitations of mobile devices, differences to desktop systems, creation and installation of FoxPro applications on mobile devices using Guineu, setting up an development environment, and transfering files between mobile devices and desktop PC.[/i:a0f5be76a5] Then he'll expound [u:a0f5be76a5]On the Dark Side of Visual Foxpro[/u:a0f5be76a5] until the co (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2510 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2510 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:03:40 EST First Post: Hi all I have been using a very old version of Ctl32_statusbar pretty successfully and it had a ctl32_statusbar in ctl32_statusbar.vcx with the command .NEWOBJECT("oStatusBar", "ctl32_statusbar", "ctl32_statusbar.vcx") Now the latest version has changed the class layouts and ctl32_statusbar is found in ctl32.vcx so the line .NEWOBJECT("oStatusBar", "ctl32_statusbar", "ctl32") does not work but if I specify the folders relative path .NEWOBJECT("oStatusBar", "ctl32_statusbar", "..\ctl32\ctl32") then it works. I have tried to DEVELOPER_SPECIFIED_PATH in appincl.dbf but that does not help, either. How can I include the path to ctl32 folder in SET PATH without modifying setup.prg and also be able to reuse it between projects? Please advise. Thanks. (Replies: 8) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2512 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2512 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:19:53 EST First Post: As we get closer to Southwest Fox 2008 (it starts four weeks from today), the news gets as hot as the Phoenix weather! Visionpace is offering a free six-month subscription (or a six-month extension for existing subscribers) for Visual MaxFrame Professional (VMP) to all Southwest Fox attendees. Between all the offers (VMP, xSQL, and CoDe magazine) and prizes to be won (over $100,000), this conference will pay for itself before you attend your first session! Five bonus sessions are planned for Friday night at 8:00 pm after the dinner party: * Stonefield Software is hosting a Stonefield Query Developers Meeting. This meeting is open to everyone. * Visionpace is hosting a VMP Developers Meeting. This meeting is open to all developers using VMP (developers not using VMP are also welcome). * Bo Durban is leading a VFPX meeting. Everyone interested in VFPX is welcome to attend. * Mike Yeager of EPS Software is presenting a bonus session titled "VFP to .NET Migration Strategies." This sess (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2511 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2511 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:27:00 EST First Post: The tentative schedule for the conference has been posted at http://www.swfox.net/schedule.aspx. Of course, it's subject to change since we are still more than a month away from the opening keynote. Doug Hennig posted a screencast on his Advantage Database Server for Visual FoxPro Developers session. Interesting revelations demonstrated in this video. Check it out on the Southwest Fox Video page: http://www.swfox.net/videos.aspx. Rick Schummer recorded a screencast on my Using VFPX Components in Production Apps session. It's also available on the Video page. Former VFP Program Manager Ken Levy will be at Southwest Fox, hanging out at the VFPConversion booth and showing a new utility he's created and releasing into the public domain. One of the bonus sessions this year is "Show Us Your Apps", an opportunity to show the crowd what cool things you've done in VFP. Because there's a limited amount of time available, presenters are limited to 10-15 minutes each. Please email info@swfox.net to let us kn (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2509 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2509 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:36:55 EST First Post: The October meeting of the Philadelphia VFP User Group will take place Tuesday, September 9 at 7:00 PM at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note: The Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.) As usual, you're welcome to bring some dinner and come as early as 6:30. Tamar Granor will be rehearsing her Southwest Fox session "We Used to Do it That Way, But ...". Each new version of Visual FoxPro has brought new ways to do things, but breaking old habits is hard. Now that the VFP language has stabilized, it's time to hone our skills. This session examines some of the changes in the language over the years and demonstrates that learning to use the newer constructs can result in better, more maintainable, faster code. Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2508 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2508 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:20:45 EST First Post: September at Chicago FUDG features a pair of Feltmans - both with programming roots in Fox Software, and a marriage made in Toledo. Toni and Mike are partners at F1 Technologies, a Toledo, Ohio based product development and IT consulting firm, where they create and sell a Visual FoxPro framework called Visual Fox Express. Both have spoken at numerous FoxPro conferences and user groups, and written articles for publication. Toni Feltman will speak on eTecnologia.NET's .NET Extender for VFP which makes it possible to use any .NET class from within VFP without requiring ActiveX or COM registration. Mike Feltman will show how Visual FoxPro is an extremely powerful back-end development language for web development. Third party tools such as Web Connection, Active FoxPro Pages, FoxWeb and others allow VFP developers to seamlessly take their skills from the Desktop to the Internet. Be sure to join us for a great evening at the usual time and place: 5:30pm on September 9th, 2008 at 53 W. Jackson Blvd Su (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2507 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2507 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:55:31 EST First Post: Menachem Bazian returns to the Philadelphia VFP User Group next week to continue his discussion about combining VFP with MySQL. This will be the first meeting on our new, seond Tuesday schedule. The meeting begins at 7 PM on August 12, but you're welcome to bring some dinner and arrive as early as 6:30 PM. We meet at Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. (Note that the Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park.) Menachem Bazian, CPA (NY), CITP is the President of BC Consulting Services, Inc., a business management and technology consulting firm specializing in enhancing client efficiency with intelligent application of technology. He has been a Fox developer for over 20 years and is the author of three books and numerous articles on the topic. He was a featured speaker at DevCons for over a decade. (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2506 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2506 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:33:49 EST First Post: We'll have a Milwaukee Brewer in town for a twilight twin bill. Lifetime FoxPro MVP, Whil Hentzen, will show us his techniques for setting up free form information web pages for his clients. Browsable, searchable, user maintainable, they are a great contribution to an organization. The nightcap will feature 'professor' Tom Corrigan showing his use of Internet protocols to grab content from web sites for display in other formats. Front row, bleacher, and box seats still available. Tuesday August 12, 2008 at 5:30 pm. Monodnock Bldg., Suite 826, at 53 W. Jackson Blvd. in Chicago's Loop. Visitors always welcome. More info at http://www.ChicagoFUDG.com (Replies: 0) http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2505 http://opentech.leafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=2505 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:14:15 EST First Post: The Philadelphia VFP User Group's exciting summer continues next Wednesday, July 16, with a visit from Cathy Pountney to present "Customizing Your Vertical Market Application." As usual, dinner begins at 6:30 with the meeting at 7 PM. Once again this month, we'll provide dinner for the group; please send an email to tamar@tamargranor.com if you're planning to come for dinner, so we get enough. The meeting location is Valley Forge Pension Management, 715 Twining Road, Suite 202, Dresher, PA 19025. Note that the Oreland offramp from PA 309 Southbound has been permanently closed. The easiest way to reach the meeting location from the PA Turnpike or 309 Southbound is to come through the Fort Washington Industrial Park. Cathy Pountney is a five-time recipient of the Microsoft VFP MVP award and has been developing software for 26 years, many of which were as an independent consultant specializing in FoxPro. In 2001 she had the privilege of spending six months as a contractor onsite in Redmond with the Microso (Replies: 0)