Re: vfp and thor set up on a clean windows 11 machine

2023-08-18 Thread Jeff Roberts
ots in this forum - it simply won't work. > Some folks use something like a website to post an image to - then post the > Link to the image here. > > -Kurt > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 9:14 AM Jeff Roberts > wrote: > > > This is the error I get trying to run super

Re: vfp and thor set up on a clean windows 11 machine

2023-08-18 Thread Jeff Roberts
This is the error I get trying to run superbrowse. Another problem is some of the Thor apps like superbrowse don't show up on my menu until I run the thor updater, then the are all there. Screenshot of error attached. On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:40 AM Alan Bourke wrote: > For VFP9 on Windows 11

vfp and thor set up on a clean windows 11 machine

2023-08-18 Thread Jeff Roberts
having to keep multiple versions of Foxpro around or a west wind dev setup. Maybe Foxpro installation on a clean machine would be a good Southwest Fox session ?!? -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe...@gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body

Re: Logging

2023-08-01 Thread Jeff Roberts
I'd be curious to see how to centralize the logging code and trigger it, what kind of system information is available to log alongside my own information, and maybe how to log to different backends such as dbfs, SQL backends, or an HTTP api. On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:13 AM Eric Selje wrote: >

Re: Fox.wikis.com

2023-07-20 Thread Jeff Roberts
dcoded links, but not dynamically generated content, coming from a > database. > > > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: ProFox Im Auftrag von Jeff Roberts > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2023 17:02 > An: ProFox Email List > Betreff: Re: Fox.wikis.com > > C

Re: Fox.wikis.com

2023-07-20 Thread Jeff Roberts
Can't you get the entire thing read only like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20220129162420/http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?wiki~VisualFoxProWiki On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 9:26 AM Man-wai Chang wrote: > Turn on read-only or reader mode at least... nothing will be written > to FoxWiki then and no

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-07 Thread Jeff Roberts
I think it is a very useful tool, but I also agree that, in reality, it is more like a sophisticated search engine than anything else. I wear a lot of hats, and I also often switch languages. I find copilot and chatGPT useful for switching gears and getting boilerplate code started. On Tue, Feb

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-04 Thread Jeff Roberts
y copying codes > found via Google Search! Well... > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 11:19 AM Jeff Roberts > wrote: > > > > If you ask ChatGPT to write FoxPro code you get an odd mix of FoxPro and > > DotNet that won't run on either platform. > > > > > -- >

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-03 Thread Jeff Roberts
If you ask ChatGPT to write FoxPro code you get an odd mix of FoxPro and DotNet that won't run on either platform. On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 9:09 PM Man-wai Chang wrote: > I am just wondering whether Visual Foxpro could make use of OpenAI > like ChatGPT :) > > I don't have any purpose nor

Re: VFP6 vs VFP9 query time on large table

2023-01-17 Thread Jeff Roberts
e-test fresh. > > On 1/17/2023 12:52 PM, Jeff Roberts wrote: > > I have a large table, about 1.5GB with an index on invno which is a char > 6. > > Files are on a file server, client machine where I am running VFP6 and > VFP9 > > is connected via gigabit ethernet. > &

VFP6 vs VFP9 query time on large table

2023-01-17 Thread Jeff Roberts
60 seconds. Anybody have any idea why it is so much slower in VFP9? -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe...@gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages

dreaming of vfp and vscode integration

2022-10-25 Thread Jeff Roberts
this? I'd be willing to put some time into the tooling to do this. Seems like it is possible. I do realize I'd get a little more syntax checking with VFP6 and a lot more with VFP9, but I am more used to the text manipulation in vscode. Maybe I am just dreaming! -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe

Re: Last Chapter

2022-07-13 Thread Jeff Roberts
h! > > > > Ken > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 4:52 PM Jeff Roberts > wrote: > > > >> I'd be interested in any of the beginner / general visual FoxPro stuff > >> including the vfp3. My experience has been the vfp3 stuff assumes no > FoxPro >

Re: Last Chapter

2022-07-11 Thread Jeff Roberts
) > -- Using VFP 6 (Manachem Bazian) > > I think those last two were the books I gave to students at my VFP classes. > > Ken > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 1:48 PM Jeff Roberts wrote: > > > Happy Retirement Ken! If you are really throwing them out, let me know > if

Re: Last Chapter

2022-07-11 Thread Jeff Roberts
Happy Retirement Ken! If you are really throwing them out, let me know if you are willing to ship them to me (I'll pay for shipping and for your trouble). We have a couple of foxpro projects that I think will never die and I have a few people on my team I would give them to. You can email me

Re: fox wiki down for anyone else?

2022-05-30 Thread Jeff Roberts
I sent him an email though the address listed on the contact page of his website. He probably addressed whatever the issue it was. Thanks everyone! -Jeff On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 12:02 PM Jan Bucek wrote: > Dne 30.5.2022 v 18:41 Jeff Roberts napsal(a): > > I haven't been able to pull

fox wiki down for anyone else?

2022-05-30 Thread Jeff Roberts
notes. -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe...@gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com

Re: Config.FPW command ignored when double-clicking on PJX in Explorer

2022-05-09 Thread Jeff Roberts
This may not be exactly what you are looking for Paul and I am no expert but you might look into creating a "Send To" shortcut. I think with a little trial and error you can get that doing what you want. Here is an article, but if it doesn't get you where you want I'd keep looking on this path:

Re: Foxfest Tomorrow.... Help

2022-05-04 Thread Jeff Roberts
I think Gmail has it in for Foxpro as bad or worse than Microsoft. I am constantly having to check my spam folder for messages and they are always Profox or Foxpro related. I even have a rule for Profox messages but it seems to ignore it from time to time. -Jeff On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 11:43 AM

Re: trouble with superbrowse on new vfp and thor installation

2022-04-30 Thread Jeff Roberts
.), This.ChangeCaseOfFieldName(m.laFields[lnRow,1])) to Replace Field_Name with This.ChangeCaseOfFieldName(m.laFields[lnRow,1]) On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 8:33 AM Jeff Roberts wrote: > I set up a new machine recently and I installed VFP9 with SP2 then Thor. > When I open a table and then choose Thor Tools-&

trouble with superbrowse on new vfp and thor installation

2022-04-27 Thread Jeff Roberts
anyone else seen this? Hopefully, I just missed a step. Screenshot attached. Thanks![image: 2022-04-27_08-20-01.png] -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe...@gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/related multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/

visual foxpro advanced table size limits

2022-04-19 Thread Jeff Roberts
and is causing a conflict of some kind? Anybody else seen this behaviour and know what I need to change? I am not trying to do this in production I was just curious and really wanted to see it for myself. Thanks! -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe...@gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts

can visual foxpro create a table inside a sql statement?

2022-04-15 Thread Jeff Roberts
ed so that it will work, or is this type of query even possible with Visual Foxpro? I think it could be done with a create cursor statement ahead of the query but I'm just curious if it can be done with a one-liner. FYI the query as-is works in Postgres but not VFP, Sqlite, or Mysql (at least the v

Re: FoxBin2PRG vs TwoFox

2022-03-30 Thread Jeff Roberts
t to edit the text files and gen new binaries then > using the IDE GUI to edit. > > -- > > rk > > From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Jeff Roberts > Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 4:02 PM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: FoxBin2PRG vs TwoFox > > I use FoxBin2Pr

Re: FoxBin2PRG vs TwoFox

2022-03-30 Thread Jeff Roberts
I use FoxBin2Prg with git and Beyond Compare but I also store my binaries in git so I rarely if ever go from text back to bin. I am afraid of it but it would be nice if it was dependable. Maybe it is and I just didn't get the memo. -Jeff On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 2:45 PM Richard Kaye wrote: >

Re: Problem with bbControls and MFC70.DLL

2022-02-13 Thread Jeff Roberts
I can't say for sure but you may have an incompatible version of MFC70.DLL. Back when I was working with Gkktools trying to get them working, I got them to work easily on my laptop but I had a hard time getting them working on my desktop. I ended up downloading several different copies of the

Re: ProTip: Still using the Project Manager?

2021-12-29 Thread Jeff Roberts
rom: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jeff > Roberts > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2021 2:54 PM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: ProTip: Still using the Project Manager? > > I was curious if the same thing could be done to the Command window so I &g

Re: ProTip: Still using the Project Manager?

2021-12-29 Thread Jeff Roberts
I was curious if the same thing could be done to the Command window so I took Tracy's code and replaced "MyProjectWindow" with "MyCommandWindow" and "Project Manager" with "Command". It did not seem to work as I wanted. Is the command window referenced by something other than "Command" or is it

Re: sftp for vfp6?

2021-12-02 Thread Jeff Roberts
1/21 8:48 PM, Jeff Roberts wrote: > > Could anyone recommend a class or control I can use to add the ability to > > send a file using sftp without too much complication to a VFP6 app? The > ocx > > we've using forever only does FTP. I looked at the old version of West > Wind

sftp for vfp6?

2021-12-01 Thread Jeff Roberts
as well. -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe...@gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https

Re: ReFox Or Something Like It

2021-11-19 Thread Jeff Roberts
I had the same issue with Refox last time I needed it and ended up setting up a Windows 7 sandboxed virtual machine on my linux desktop just for Refox. I could never get Windows 10 to open it, and I wasn't totally sure there was not a real threat with Refox so better to be safe than sorry. If

Re: Reprots Field Properties override options

2021-11-17 Thread Jeff Roberts
I feel your pain. My laptop is 13" with a 4k screen and I have yet to find a combination of settings that displays my Visual Foxpro dev environment in a way that is overall pleasing to me. In hindsight, I wish I would have just gotten the HD screen. It's not only Foxpro that I have display issues

Re: looking docs or code for reading and exporting vfp menus that I can understand

2021-11-09 Thread Jeff Roberts
\ * - > * \ > Rick > White Light Computing, Inc. > > www.whitelightcomputing.com > > -Original Message- > From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Jeff Roberts > Sent: November 8, 2021 11:08 AM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: looking docs or code for reading and exporti

Re: looking docs or code for reading and exporting vfp menus that I can understand

2021-11-08 Thread Jeff Roberts
Eric > > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:08 AM Jeff Roberts > wrote: > > > I've inherited a couple of fairly large VFP apps and I have been trying > to > > read the menu files and build some documentation automatically. I am more > > or less wanting to process a

looking docs or code for reading and exporting vfp menus that I can understand

2021-11-08 Thread Jeff Roberts
, or some fairly simple code I could read to try and wrap my head around how it works? Thanks! -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe...@gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html

Re: [NF] Windows 10 32 bit on current Hardware

2021-11-04 Thread Jeff Roberts
DosBox or DbDos may be worth a look for your situation. I have had success with DosBox and a Foxpro 2.6 app but the customer was a single user and not on a network. -Jeff On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 9:56 AM Jürgen Wondzinski wrote: > I don't know any reason, why a regular PC would block installation

Re: FP Advisors?

2021-10-23 Thread Jeff Roberts
I'm not sure if this is Advisor or one of the other Foxpro magazines but I'd like to get a copy of the old JFast article. I can only find this one in German: http://portal.dfpug.de/dfpug/Dokumente/Loseblattsammlung/FoxX%2011.0/11-06-29%20Fallstudie%20JFAST.pdf It would be great to have searchable

Help or Opinions on GKKTools / VFP-Editors from ggreen86 from VFPX on github

2021-07-16 Thread Jeff Roberts
and build with VFP but I do not think that is really possible is it? Thanks in advance for any advice! -- Jeff Roberts | jefflrobe...@gmail.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html

Re: seeming simple sql madness

2010-01-14 Thread Jeff Roberts
Thanks for the input Ricardo. for the archive, it turned out that I had four records in the glentrdt file with the same glseq. After I updated my where clause to include and glentrdt.glaccnt = '60120- ' I didnt get the duplicates any more. 2010/1/13 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Jeff

seeming simple sql madness

2010-01-13 Thread Jeff Roberts
I have been working on a sql statement all afternoon and it is starting to make me seriously doubt my abilities. I have a table, glentrdth which has some records I from which need to get records out for period 13 year 2009. However, this table only contains a glseq field which should correspond

Re: A Quick VFP Graphical Conversion...

2009-11-12 Thread Jeff Roberts
Stephen if you didn't do it already you probably need to find the config.nt file (or whatever it is called now) and change it to read files=99. the default under xp is files=33 or something like that which would let foxpro dos run but you'd get errors as soon as you started opening more than a

Re: A Quick VFP Graphical Conversion...

2009-11-12 Thread Jeff Roberts
a memlimit line in there so fox doesnt go eat up all the memory. When googling the memlimit syntax I ran across this page on the fox wiki that says everything I've said and then some :) http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~Fpd26OnWin2000 On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Jeff Roberts jeff...@gmail.com

Re: Vista and Full Screen Dos FP app anyone?

2009-08-01 Thread Jeff Roberts
Back in the day when I needed to run some DOS apps on windows terminal server and the client didnt support full screen dos, I used these fonts to please the users: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/dosfon_e.html I have since used them on xp and vista boxes to avoid needing to go full screen. Looks like

Re: Printer Drivers: Screwing Things Up

2009-07-25 Thread Jeff Roberts
You might also try the Cute PDF Writer printer driver. http://www.cutepdf.com/ It's very lightweight and free. I've used it for years without problems If I never had to use another Adobe product that would be great by me. I've never found any of their products to be very developer or

Re: setting a form to autocenter based on a condition

2007-11-23 Thread Jeff Roberts
0 ThisForm.AutoCenter = .T. Else ThisForm.AutoCenter = .F. ThisForm.Top = 0 ThisForm.Left = 0 EndIf This goes in form's init. - Original Message - From: Jeff Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:13 AM Subject

setting a form to autocenter based on a condition

2007-11-21 Thread Jeff Roberts
Hi all, I've been doing a lot of development on my laptop lately, and screen space is tighter there. I've got an app that most all the form's autocenter property is set to true, and I'd like for that to be false when I'm running the app or form under the vfp ide. That way the form pops up in

Re: [NF] PHP editor with 'intellisense'?

2007-11-17 Thread Jeff Roberts
komodo does code completion as well. I have it and zend studio, and I have been using komodo more lately. I just like its look and feel better than zsend studio. Komodo also comes with this cool firefox proxy that you can use for debugging. On Nov 17, 2007 6:41 PM, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED]

vfp startup programs

2007-09-11 Thread Jeff Roberts
Hey guys, I've been trying to put some useful stuff into a program that gets call when vfp starts. In config.fpw I have _startup=vfpstart.prg. It seems to work fine if I click the icon to start vfp, however I have a habit of double clicking prg's and scx's to start vfp. When I doubleclick one

Re: Pet peeve with debugging a PRG

2007-09-10 Thread Jeff Roberts
probably an odd practice that only I do, but I edit all my 2.6 dos/2.6 unix code with vfp 9 and I keep a 2.6 window open for compiling. I just have to make sure the file is closed in vfp when I compile it. I get a lot of the benefits of the vfp editor this way, although you do have to keep in

[NF] leafe.com access from atlanta

2007-09-09 Thread Jeff Roberts
Anyone else having trouble accessing leafe.com? I've tried to go searching in the profox archives a couple of times and once in the forums since I've been at foxforward. When I've actually gotten it to work it seems to take forever. I've never had this problem before, maybe its the hotel

Re: [NF] leafe.com access from atlanta

2007-09-09 Thread Jeff Roberts
yeah definitely not critical, i was just wondering if I was the only one having trouble. On 9/9/07, Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry him on my account, I don't need access. But he might want to check it I suppose. Allen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NF] Recommendations for Norton AntiVirus removal?

2007-09-04 Thread Jeff Roberts
this may be what you've already found googling but I've used it quite a few times to remove a messed up norton install (from symantec's site): Download and run the Norton Removal Tool http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039 On 9/4/07, Nicholas Geti [EMAIL

Re: [NF] Anybody else at phptek?

2007-05-17 Thread Jeff Roberts
On 5/16/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/07, Jeff Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else attending phptek this week? No, I hadn't even heard of the conference. That's php|tek Chicago 2007, right? There's another phptek, but that was last month. http://hades.phparch.com

[NF] Anybody else at phptek?

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Roberts
Anyone else attending phptek this week? So far I think glgdw has it beat by a long shot. -Jeff --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to:

Re: best way to read and write text files on a linux server from vfp

2007-02-26 Thread Jeff Roberts
oplocks I think, I'll have to doublecheck at the client site to be sure but here are a couple of references I found googling for samba foxpro: http://www.drouillard.ca/TipsTricks/Samba/Oplocks.htm http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-December/115566.html As for dbfs,In the past when I've

Re: best way to read and write text files on a linux server from vfp

2007-02-21 Thread Jeff Roberts
thanks for the great answers. I am probably either going to use the pscp program from the putty website, or try the symlink idea. I think both will satisfy my needs. As for dbfs,In the past when I've used samba for foxpro data I've always had to make the share read/write for everyone. I think

newb questions about moving and renaming classes and forms

2007-02-21 Thread Jeff Roberts
Hey All, Being a lot shortsighted, I created some forms based off some form classes I'd already created, and I put everything in the same directory. Now I'd like to put the forms in a \FORMS subdirectory and the classes in a \CLASSES subdirectory. I'm pretty sure if I move things around and

best way to read and write text files on a linux server from vfp

2007-02-20 Thread Jeff Roberts
I need to read and write some plain text configuration files on a linux server on a regular basis. I'd like some degree of security too. I was thinking of using scp but I havent found an easy solution for vfp that utilizes scp. I also thought of using samba to just share the folder containing

Re: how to show all code for a form?

2007-01-30 Thread Jeff Roberts
thanks for all the great responses! All of them I have tried have accomplished what I wanted one way or another. On 1/27/07, Sales Info [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, I'm not by a workstation with VFP, but under the Tools menu is a Class Browser(?) about 3 or 4 positions down that was

how to show all code for a form?

2007-01-27 Thread Jeff Roberts
Sorry if I've overlooked an obvious answer or workaround to this problem. I've got a form that is based off a class, and I want to see if I have hidden any code anywhere that would change the behavior of this form. Is their something I can do that will show me where I've put code for the form or