Re: Combobox followup

[Mike Copeland]

To see if it's a scope issue, declare your variable as public, not local. 

Mike Copeland 

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On 6/17/24 6:33 PM, Joe Yoder  wrote:

>  Thanks Eric for the input.  I think I have correctly made the changes you
>  suggested but the code fails with "Unknown member oComboBox"
>  Here is the code as I have it now:
>  
>  * Procedure to add a ComboBox to the form
>  PROCEDURE AddComboBoxToForm(toForm, nTop, nLeft, cname)
>  LOCAL oComboBox
>  oComboBox = CREATEOBJECT("ComboBox")
>  oComboBox.AddItem("Item 1")
>  oComboBox.AddItem("Item 2")
>  toForm.oComboBox.Top = nTop
>  toForm.oComboBox.Left = nLeft
>  toForm.oComboBox.Visible = .T.
>  toForm.AddObject(cname, "oComboBox")
>  
>  ENDPROC
>  For some reason I need to go to the archive to get any responses to my post
>  so this will appear as a new thread.
>  
>  Thanks again,
>  Joe
>  
>  
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Re: [NF] LogMeIn security alerts

[Mike Copeland]

Correction to previous email:

I don't think the 90-minute login block works except for when you're 
already logged in and trying to access an individual workstation via 
that workstation's passcode.


To be honest, I'm not sure if there's a block on the master access to 
the control panel...I've never had a problem logging in. (But I do often 
forget what I changed a workstation's individual passcode to.)


Mike Copeland


Mike Copeland wrote:
As you know, connections to LMI client machines (individual 
workstations) are controlled thru and managed at the LMI servers back 
at the LMI mothership. Lots of benefits and drawbacks to the approach, 
but it usually works pretty well.


So, if a baddo wants into your account, all they need is your login 
name and password for the Master user on the account. Getting the 
login name isn't hard since it's often your email address and attempts 
to connect to your account could be performed by an automated script 
running through a database of login names.


The password, though, is obviously a different issue, since I'm sure 
you used something extremely obtuse and long and convoluted!


LMI has always had a 'feature' that will lock the account, preventing 
access by anyone, for an unspecified period of time after X 
failed-attempts to login. It slows the script-kiddies down a LOT. 
(Usually it's 4 attempts and you're blocked for around 90 minutes.)


All that to say that the baddo's have a slow process to slog through 
to try to hack in.


And once they are in, they COULD use your account (I'm assuming it's 
paid for in advance and you figure it's easier to let it ride to 
expiration than get any refund, if any) to provide LMI service to 
other computers...but since you have removed the installs from YOUR 
computers, there's no risk.


I think you're safe. At the worst, a baddie will get LMI services for 
the remainder of your subscription and if you try to use it in the 
future it might not be accessible (since they'd likely change the 
master password.)


Hope this helps.

Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Already uninstalled LMI from the machines!  Forgot to mention that.  
I think I'm safe?



On 2017-01-18 15:40, Mike Copeland wrote:

Personal opinion:
I would make sure LMI was uninstalled from all workstations and then
set up a spam filter on your email to bit-bucket any email from them.

But, if you're feeling kind and generous, you might contact them and
ask that the emails stop being sent since you no longer have any need
for them.

Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
I dumped LMI last year but the account is still there.  I've 
received about 4 notices over the past month from LMI about 
attempting access from various parts of the globe.  Here's the latest:


There was a failed login attempt to your LogMeIn account.

LogMeIn ID: x...@xxx.xxx

Time of Event: 1/18/2017 6:24 AM
From IP Address: 77.153.153.19
From location: Fontenay-sous-Bois, France

I've removed my computers from my LMI account since I don't plan to 
use LMI anymore.  Strange though how this is occurring now and 
hadn't happened for years (or at least the reporting feature wasn't 
working maybe?!?!).


Should I contact the LMI folks to disable and remove my account 
entirely?  Seems like the next logical move.



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Re: [NF] LogMeIn security alerts

[Mike Copeland]

As you know, connections to LMI client machines (individual 
workstations) are controlled thru and managed at the LMI servers back at 
the LMI mothership. Lots of benefits and drawbacks to the approach, but 
it usually works pretty well.


So, if a baddo wants into your account, all they need is your login name 
and password for the Master user on the account. Getting the login name 
isn't hard since it's often your email address and attempts to connect 
to your account could be performed by an automated script running 
through a database of login names.


The password, though, is obviously a different issue, since I'm sure you 
used something extremely obtuse and long and convoluted!


LMI has always had a 'feature' that will lock the account, preventing 
access by anyone, for an unspecified period of time after X 
failed-attempts to login. It slows the script-kiddies down a LOT. 
(Usually it's 4 attempts and you're blocked for around 90 minutes.)


All that to say that the baddo's have a slow process to slog through to 
try to hack in.


And once they are in, they COULD use your account (I'm assuming it's 
paid for in advance and you figure it's easier to let it ride to 
expiration than get any refund, if any) to provide LMI service to other 
computers...but since you have removed the installs from YOUR computers, 
there's no risk.


I think you're safe. At the worst, a baddie will get LMI services for 
the remainder of your subscription and if you try to use it in the 
future it might not be accessible (since they'd likely change the master 
password.)


Hope this helps.

Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Already uninstalled LMI from the machines!  Forgot to mention that.  I 
think I'm safe?



On 2017-01-18 15:40, Mike Copeland wrote:

Personal opinion:
I would make sure LMI was uninstalled from all workstations and then
set up a spam filter on your email to bit-bucket any email from them.

But, if you're feeling kind and generous, you might contact them and
ask that the emails stop being sent since you no longer have any need
for them.

Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
I dumped LMI last year but the account is still there.  I've 
received about 4 notices over the past month from LMI about 
attempting access from various parts of the globe.  Here's the latest:


There was a failed login attempt to your LogMeIn account.

LogMeIn ID: x...@xxx.xxx

Time of Event: 1/18/2017 6:24 AM
From IP Address: 77.153.153.19
From location: Fontenay-sous-Bois, France

I've removed my computers from my LMI account since I don't plan to 
use LMI anymore.  Strange though how this is occurring now and 
hadn't happened for years (or at least the reporting feature wasn't 
working maybe?!?!).


Should I contact the LMI folks to disable and remove my account 
entirely?  Seems like the next logical move.



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Re: [NF] LogMeIn security alerts

[Mike Copeland]

Personal opinion:
I would make sure LMI was uninstalled from all workstations and then set 
up a spam filter on your email to bit-bucket any email from them.


But, if you're feeling kind and generous, you might contact them and ask 
that the emails stop being sent since you no longer have any need for them.


Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
I dumped LMI last year but the account is still there.  I've received 
about 4 notices over the past month from LMI about attempting access 
from various parts of the globe.  Here's the latest:


There was a failed login attempt to your LogMeIn account.

LogMeIn ID: x...@xxx.xxx

Time of Event: 1/18/2017 6:24 AM
From IP Address: 77.153.153.19
From location: Fontenay-sous-Bois, France

I've removed my computers from my LMI account since I don't plan to 
use LMI anymore.  Strange though how this is occurring now and hadn't 
happened for years (or at least the reporting feature wasn't working 
maybe?!?!).


Should I contact the LMI folks to disable and remove my account 
entirely?  Seems like the next logical move.



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Re: Has anyone implemented List & Label?

[Mike Copeland]

Jonnie,

Very sorry to hear of your loss! Your father was always a positive 
influence on the group and I enjoyed his input. I agree that "very 
quick" is the way it should happen, since it has to happen.


Please tell his loved ones that this community of fellow Fox programmers 
will miss him and remember Sytze fondly.


Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

Hi Everyone

This is Sytze's son, I am writing because he passed away on Friday (sudden
heart attack while mowing the lawns, very quick, the way he wanted) and I
know he was an avid reader on this forum and often commented to me about
his gleanings he received from it.
I dont think he met any of you in person, but I know he spoke/emailed to
many of you personally and held many of you in high regards.
Would like to pass on this news in case any of you wondered why he went
quiet :)

Jonnie de Boer

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Tracy Pearson <tr...@powerchurch.com> wrote:


Hello Everyone,

I'm currently evaluating List & Label for a replacement of the old Crystal
Reports we have.

I'm curious if anyone has implemented it, and the designer in to a VFP
project.

Thank you,
Tracy



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Re: Zooming fonts in FoxPro IDE code windows

[Mike Copeland]

Speaking on behalf of old farts who sit closer and closer to the monitor 
every day...I thank you for bringing this to our attention, and to Matt 
Slay for providing the solution!


Mike Copeland


Ted Roche wrote:

Matt has a pretty cool little hack with accompanying video:

http://mattslay.com/zooming-the-font-size-in-foxpro-ide-code-windows/





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Re: [NF] Hardware vs Software Router/Firewall Recommendations

[Mike Copeland]

Thank you, Ted!

Mike

Ted Roche wrote:

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

I've purchased and attempted to configure a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, which gets
rave reviews, is exceptionally low priced, but WOW what a pain to configure!
But from what I can tell, the Ubiquiti product line is worth some effort and
I do hope they'll improve their UI for the configuration. If anyone else has
experience with a Ubiquiti router, I'd love to chat!


A couple of the local LUGs have had some discussions about Ubiquiti.
The hardware specs sound good, but there were some concerns about GPL
violations, and specifically, some changes Ubi made that introduced
security flaws and were not released as source code. This was a while
ago, so you might want to check for updates to these issues.


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Re: [NF] Hardware vs Software Router/Firewall Recommendations

[Mike Copeland]

I've had good luck with the RV042G router/firewall, part of the Cisco 
Small Business line of routers. I have one location with 60 systems 
routed through a single RV042G without any hiccups or complaints. The 
RV042G is getting long in the tooth though, and I would love to find a 
sub-$200 router/firewall that would handle the work. Maybe the Cisco 
RV320K9?


I've also used one of the TPLink boxes and had issues getting a box that 
worked. The other problem is that it seems like every router/firewall 
has WIFI built in whether you want it or not, you pay for it. I've 
already got WIFI taken care of, thanks very much!


I've purchased and attempted to configure a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter, which 
gets rave reviews, is exceptionally low priced, but WOW what a pain to 
configure! But from what I can tell, the Ubiquiti product line is worth 
some effort and I do hope they'll improve their UI for the 
configuration. If anyone else has experience with a Ubiquiti router, I'd 
love to chat!


Mike Copeland


Ken Dibble wrote:


Which software router are you looking at? Coyote? Most of the 
software routers I have used are no longer being supported or developed.


Nothing has been recommended by our consultants yet. I'm trying to 
prepare in advance.


The choices in hardware router/firewall devices are not that great. 
I've been using a Zyxel 1000G for a few years and it has been, 
mostly, reliable. I've had it get wonky and require a reboot twice in 
6 years. The interface is very very different...completely 
object-oriented. Fortunately Zyxel provides excellent tech support, 
they'll even log in to your router and configure it for you if needed.


The CISCO was rock solid for quite a while. However, a couple years 
ago its memory failed and was replaced with a used substitute. Since 
then we've had to cycle the power on it about once every 2-3 months to 
restore connectivity.


Its web interface is horrendously byzantine in terms of its "security" 
features, which did not behave well in IE, and even worse in Firefox. 
It could take 10-15 minutes of going through various windows and 
resubmitting credentials before it would give up the goods and show me 
something.


I don't think you'll run into any throughput issues with your load on 
any device, or software-based system.


That's good to know.

Thanks very much, Mike.

Ken



Ken Dibble wrote:

Hi folks,

Looks like our "ancient" (2008) CISCO router has died.

I would appreciate the benefit of your experience regarding hardware 
vs software routers/firewalls to help me evaluate replacement options.


Our current network uses 1 GB switches and has about 150 machines, 
and there can be at least that many people simultaneously using the 
network and our 25 mbps synchronous internet connection (including 
people hooking into our internet from smart phones and tablets). 
Most servers, including the domain controller, are virtualized and 
we are using a SAN for storage (two identical Synology Linux NAS 
devices). We have a 10 GB switch for virtual server/storage 
connectivity.


We do not host external (internet) email or websites on our network.

We've had slow growth in the number of machines and users (+/- 5% 
per year) over the past decade.


We've always used the NAT functionality of the CISCO to provide a 
firewall and we only rarely allow anything to punch through it. The 
main exception would be our RDP server, which is in frequent use by 
between 5 and 10 simultaneous connections.


My understanding is that a software router/firewall running on an 
ordinary PC is likely to be slower than a dedicated hardware device. 
However, is the difference so significant for a network like mine as 
to rule out a cheaper software solution?


Do you have preferences for specific devices or software packages?

What do you all think?

Many thanks.

Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org


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Re: [NF] Hardware vs Software Router/Firewall Recommendations

[Mike Copeland]

Which software router are you looking at? Coyote? Most of the software 
routers I have used are no longer being supported or developed.


The choices in hardware router/firewall devices are not that great. I've 
been using a Zyxel 1000G for a few years and it has been, mostly, 
reliable. I've had it get wonky and require a reboot twice in 6 years. 
The interface is very very different...completely object-oriented. 
Fortunately Zyxel provides excellent tech support, they'll even log in 
to your router and configure it for you if needed.


I don't think you'll run into any throughput issues with your load on 
any device, or software-based system.


Mike Copeland

Ken Dibble wrote:

Hi folks,

Looks like our "ancient" (2008) CISCO router has died.

I would appreciate the benefit of your experience regarding hardware 
vs software routers/firewalls to help me evaluate replacement options.


Our current network uses 1 GB switches and has about 150 machines, and 
there can be at least that many people simultaneously using the 
network and our 25 mbps synchronous internet connection (including 
people hooking into our internet from smart phones and tablets). Most 
servers, including the domain controller, are virtualized and we are 
using a SAN for storage (two identical Synology Linux NAS devices). We 
have a 10 GB switch for virtual server/storage connectivity.


We do not host external (internet) email or websites on our network.

We've had slow growth in the number of machines and users (+/- 5% per 
year) over the past decade.


We've always used the NAT functionality of the CISCO to provide a 
firewall and we only rarely allow anything to punch through it. The 
main exception would be our RDP server, which is in frequent use by 
between 5 and 10 simultaneous connections.


My understanding is that a software router/firewall running on an 
ordinary PC is likely to be slower than a dedicated hardware device. 
However, is the difference so significant for a network like mine as 
to rule out a cheaper software solution?


Do you have preferences for specific devices or software packages?

What do you all think?

Many thanks.

Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org



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Re: Unit quantities

[Mike Copeland]

I would use the lowest common denominator, each, to track inventory on 
hand, and offer sales of 1, 2, 3, etc. with a few "convenience" 
quantities, like Dozen, Carton, Case, Pallet, Truck load, etc.


Just use a separate table, like "catalog" or something that has your 
Apple SKU reference and the quantity names (Dozen, Carton, etc.) and the 
each quantity that represents.


The purpose of the multiples is for the buyer's convenience (and maybe 
your warehouse people.)


When storing the actual quantity sold, I would store 1, 2, 3, 24, 48, 
96, or whatever quantity was in the catalog table that references the 
quantity package name.


When printing packing slips or invoices, you can reverse the quantity to 
the package name from the catalog...if needed.


Mike Copeland

Sytze de Boer wrote:

In my accounting/invoicing system, clients create product items.

Let's say you sell Apples
You can sell
single apples
apples in a carton (e.g. 25 apples per carton)
cartons of apples on a pallet (e.g. 50 cartons per pallets)

I would like to know how YOU handle the Quantity management.
Do you create 3 different stock items or do you force people to enter 2
factors at invoice time. Qty and Factor, where factor can be (say) Single,
Carton or Pallet.

When you *see* your product profile,
do you see 1125 apples, X cartons and Y pallets and Z singles?

I hope I've explained this satisfactorily.
If its NF, please forgive me.




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Re: [NF] LogMeIn Pro raising price to $149 from $99

[Mike Copeland]

+1
I would say that its remote printing is the deal maker for me.

Mike Copeland

Richard Kaye wrote:

It's still my remote access tool of choice, Mike. LMI's major advantage, imo, 
is its file transfer abilities.

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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of 
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Subject: [NF] LogMeIn Pro raising price to $149 from $99

I've enjoyed using LMI Pro for years.  VERY convenient.  I'll probably
still pay it, but wanted to poll the community here to see if anyone is
using something else and loving that  as much or better than LMI.  I do
NOT want to go down the VNC/UltraVNC/etc-VNC variants that aren't as
user-friendly as LMI.

tia!
--Mike


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Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives

[Mike Copeland]

The jury is still out, for me, but I agree with your understanding and 
so far SSDs have been more reliable.


Mike

Jim Brotz wrote:

I guess I am missing something here.  Why wouldn't SSDs last longer than
disk drives,  since they are solid state?
Also, my understanding is that they use leveling algorithms to avoid the
problem of wearing out due to multiple writes to the same addresses.

On Nov 17, 2016 10:19 AM, 
wrote:


On 2016-11-17 04:37, Paul Hill wrote:


On 16 November 2016 at 21:01,
 wrote:


How long do you normally use a laptop hard drive before replacing it
(before
disaster strikes it)?


I don't think I've ever had a drive I personally own die.
Still got a 9Gb SCSI drive running in my Amiga 4000 :-)



Well I always heard that the SCSI drives lasted the longest (as opposed to
the IDE drives)!  They say these SSD drives are super fast (yes!) but they
don't have the longevity like your SCSI either though...supposedly.


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Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives

[Mike Copeland]

You'd be right, just fewer to choose from (containers to hold the SSD 
and provide the SATA3 HD interface.)


Mike

mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

On 2016-11-14 15:17, Mike Copeland wrote:

mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:


My question:  I know SSD drives are 20x faster reportedly, but would 
that still apply if it's an EXTERNAL drive?  I understand that using 
the USB 3.0 port is better than the older USB 2.x ports and earlier 
for transfer rates.


SATA 3 HD interface is rated up to 6Gbps
USB 3.0 interface is rated up to 5Gbps

Yes, using an SSD external will result in better performance than a
non-SSD, even with USB 3.0 interface in the mix.

Mike Copeland



Thanks, Mike.  Sounds like an even better plan is to get the SATA 3 HD 
connection.  I believe my laptop has that port too.



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Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives

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mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:


My question:  I know SSD drives are 20x faster reportedly, but would 
that still apply if it's an EXTERNAL drive?  I understand that using 
the USB 3.0 port is better than the older USB 2.x ports and earlier 
for transfer rates. 


SATA 3 HD interface is rated up to 6Gbps
USB 3.0 interface is rated up to 5Gbps

Yes, using an SSD external will result in better performance than a 
non-SSD, even with USB 3.0 interface in the mix.


Mike Copeland


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Re: Do you rebuild your indexes every night or do you leave them alone.

[Mike Copeland]

Thanks Mike!

I'm going on year 3 with a MariaDB server, dump the data for backup 
every night, never a problem.


Mike C

mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

On 2016-11-09 15:20, Mike Copeland wrote:

Anyone have input on whether "checking the health of indexes" is
necessary or recommended in a MariaDB environment?



I use MariaDB.  Never been an issue.  Customers never complained about 
speed, and no problems with tables.  And that's over a period of 10+ 
years (with MySQL being used prior to MariaDB).


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Re: Do you rebuild your indexes every night or do you leave them alone.

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Richard Kaye wrote:

Checking the health of indexes and refreshing statistics in an MS-SQL 
environment is a best practice.

https://ola.hallengren.com/

--

rk


Anyone have input on whether "checking the health of indexes" is 
necessary or recommended in a MariaDB environment?


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Re: Stupid form question

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Modal is considered, by me, to be old-school and undesirable. People 
expect to have several forms open on their worksurface and interact 
between them. Just my opinion.


Mike

Man-wai Chang wrote:

Have you all ever wondered why the default value for this property was
not "Modal"? :)

I worked with modal forms 99% of the time in all my previous VFP jobs.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Adam Buckland
 wrote:

Stupid question #2 ... how do I make it modal... (Shame of it as well it's on 
VFP 6)..



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Re: M$ OCX Date Picker Problem!

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Alan,

I use that same control but I haven't had any reports of problems. I 
just checked it and ran through a few tests and it seems to be working 
well.


You're experiencing this on multiple user systems?
Any idea which OS is having problems?

Mike

Alan Bourke wrote:

On investigation we use it on our standard date picker control,
basically we have it (specifically MsComCtl2.MonthView.2) on a form with
a few buttons to select the current date and so forth. No reported
issues like this and we would have sites numbering in the thousands
using it from Win XP upwards.

Could it be related to the PC regional settings?




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Re: Taking a screenshot of "yourself"

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Thanks, Dave! That works a lot better than mine!

Mike


Dave Thayer wrote:

I
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Man-wai Chang wrote:

Is there a VFP function that does it? Win32API needed?

Here's what I use. It creates a snapshot of the entire screen and saves it
as "error.emf" which is a bit-map format that compresses extremely well.

[...]

f you don't mind pulling GDIPlusX, into your program, you can do something like:

* Screengrab cf <http://www.mail-archive.com/profox@leafe.com/msg56529.html>
 If Type("_Screen.ActiveForm") = "O"
 Do System.App
 loBmp =
_Screen.System.Drawing.Bitmap.Fromscreen(_Screen.ActiveForm.HWnd)
 loBmp.Save(lcErrDir + "offending_form.png",
_Screen.System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
 loBmp.Dispose()
 lcAttachmentList = lcAttachmentList + CRLF +
lcErrDir + "offending_form.png"
 Endif

As you can see, I stole\W was inspired by a post by Christof
Wollenhaupt back in 2008.


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Re: Taking a screenshot of "yourself"

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Man-wai Chang wrote:

Is there a VFP function that does it? Win32API needed?


Here's what I use. It creates a snapshot of the entire screen and saves 
it as "error.emf" which is a bit-map format that compresses extremely well.

Mike

PROCEDURE screensnap
 DECLARE INTEGER GetFocus IN user32
 DECLARE INTEGER ReleaseDC IN user32 INTEGER, INTEGER
 DECLARE INTEGER GetWindowRect IN user32 INTEGER, STRING @
 DECLARE INTEGER GetDeviceCaps IN gdi32 INTEGER, INTEGER
 DECLARE INTEGER CloseEnhMetaFile IN gdi32 INTEGER
 DECLARE INTEGER DeleteEnhMetaFile IN gdi32 INTEGER
 DECLARE INTEGER GetWindowDC IN user32 INTEGER
 DECLARE INTEGER CreateEnhMetaFile IN gdi32 INTEGER, STRING, STRING @, 
STRING
 DECLARE INTEGER BitBlt IN gdi32 INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER, 
INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER, INTEGER

 hwndsrc= 
 hdcsrc = getwindowdc(hwndsrc)
 hsize = getdevicecaps(hdcsrc, 4)*100
 vsize = getdevicecaps(hdcsrc, 6)*100
 hres = getdevicecaps(hdcsrc, 8)
 vres = getdevicecaps(hdcsrc, 10)
 rcsrc = REPLICATE(CHR(0), 16)
 = getwindowrect(hwndsrc, @rcsrc)
 nleftsrc = buf2dword(SUBSTR(rcsrc, 1, 4))
 ntopsrc = buf2dword(SUBSTR(rcsrc, 5, 4))
 nrightsrc = buf2dword(SUBSTR(rcsrc, 9, 4))
 nbotsrc = buf2dword(SUBSTR(rcsrc, 13, 4))
 nrightsrc = nrightsrc-nleftsrc
 nbotsrc = nbotsrc-ntopsrc
 STORE 0 TO nleftsrc, ntopsrc
 nmetaleft = (nleftsrc*hsize)/hres
 nmetatop = (ntopsrc*vsize)/vres
 nmetaright = (nrightsrc*hsize)/hres
 nmetabot = (nbotsrc*vsize)/vres
 rcmeta = 
num2dword(nmetaleft)+num2dword(nmetatop)+num2dword(nmetaright)+num2dword(nmetabot)

 hmetadc = createenhmetafile(hdcsrc, "error.emf", @rcmeta, .NULL.)
 = bitblt(hmetadc, 0, 0, nrightsrc, nbotsrc, hdcsrc, 0, 0, 13369376)
 hmetafile = closeenhmetafile(hmetadc)
 = deleteenhmetafile(hmetafile)
 = releasedc(hwndsrc, hdcsrc)
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Re: [NF] Save Video from cable TV

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Paul Hill wrote:

On 18 October 2016 at 19:36,   wrote:

FYI - a number of months ago I called in to local radio morning show - when 
these guys were discussing 3D Printing. But, they had No Clue as to what they 
were talking about - so that's why I called in with some input. Afterwards - I 
contacted the station - and they had NO Problem getting me an MP3 file of 
segment where I called in. So - even a TV station may be willing to do the same 
- especially if the content of the show is about your Dog!

There's a radio show I like to listen to but it's on a 1am.  So I have
a cron job on my server to record the stream.

What I would really like to do is automatically remove the adverts -
it's not on the BBC :-)

I was thinking about a program that detects repeating segments and removes them.
Some ads would sneak in but the second time they aired they would be detected.

Not sure how feasible this is but it's an interesting programming project!


There were boxes that did that back in the VCR days of the 1980's. They 
would detect when the video signal dropped below a thresehold and would 
put the VCR on hold. Then watch the stream and detect the next "blank 
spot" and take the VCR off pause.


The problem was that the blank spots were also happening, randomly, in 
the program content, and more than just at the start and end of the 
commercials. And broadcasters countered the "new technology" by having 
irregular number of commercialswith the blank spots in between. 
Needless to say, those boxes didn't sell well since you had to monitor 
their operation real time.


Mike

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Re: [NF] VMWare Player Not Finding Host Printers

[Mike Copeland]

Charles,

Have you checked out this page?

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US=displayKC=1013997
There's an additional link at the top of that page under "Purpose" to 
troubleshoot printing problems.


Mike Copeland


Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote:

Dear Dave:

Can you suggest a next step for my VMWare Player not finding host printers?

After upgrading to WIN10, my guest OS on VMWare Player can't see host
printers.

On the Host, I have enabled sharing for the printers.

What is my next step?

VMware Player Workstation 12 Version 12.5.0

Host OS
WIN 10 Home

Guest OS
XP Pro
​
Charles


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Re: [NF] Save Video from cable TV

[Mike Copeland]

Ken,

Not that I'm aware of.

You know how "in bed" the music industry is with Microsoft? (lawsuits 
against napster, etc.) Well, Hollyweird is even more in control of 
Silicon Valley than the techies are. (All this is my opinion of course.)


Video "rights to distribute" are where the money is in media...so follow 
the money.


Mike


Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote:

Thanks, Mike --

If I get a DVR, can I gain access to and manipulate the files?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


Ken

I might be off base, but most cable companies have gone to great lengths
to prevent you from recording video off their feed.

Saying that, I have had success with the Windows 7 Media Player recording
tv feed from an Internet streaming feed (but not from cable feed.)

I thought I read that Microsoft removed the video recording from a video
stream in Windows 8 and above.

I also tried several of the OpenSource packages on Linux, complete with
hardware, and had no luck.  After a few hundred hours I figured I had
already spent more than a years rental of a DVR from my cable company would
cost.

Good luck!

Mike Copeland


Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote:


Hey - --

Because of my famous dog (https://www.instagram.com/caninehappyhour/), I
need to be able to:
   -- record live (cable) TV, and
   -- gain access to the files in order to edit them.

We aren't big TV folks, and we have never had a DVR. I'd be willing to buy
an inexpensive one, but shopping and Googling confuses the heck out of me.

For example i see these:
   --
https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-EzRecorder-Definition-
Recording-ER130/dp/B00LAP3GC8
I see I have to add my own USB hard disk (which I have). Would that do it?

Slingbox:
   -- https://www.amazon.com/Sling-Media-SB375-100-Slingbox-M2/dp/
B011QHAOWO
Would that do it?

Also:
https://www.amazon.com/Hauppauge-1212-Definition-Personal-
Recorder/dp/B0018LX0DY
PVR? Personal Video Recorder?


Comcast is our provider. Is there a way to do this without additional
hardware?

I need to record stuff Thursday & Friday.

Anybody willing to give me a kick me in the right direction?

Ken


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Re: [NF] Save Video from cable TV

[Mike Copeland]

Ken

I might be off base, but most cable companies have gone to great lengths 
to prevent you from recording video off their feed.


Saying that, I have had success with the Windows 7 Media Player 
recording tv feed from an Internet streaming feed (but not from cable 
feed.)


I thought I read that Microsoft removed the video recording from a video 
stream in Windows 8 and above.


I also tried several of the OpenSource packages on Linux, complete with 
hardware, and had no luck.  After a few hundred hours I figured I had 
already spent more than a years rental of a DVR from my cable company 
would cost.


Good luck!

Mike Copeland


Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote:

Hey - --

Because of my famous dog (https://www.instagram.com/caninehappyhour/), I
need to be able to:
  -- record live (cable) TV, and
  -- gain access to the files in order to edit them.

We aren't big TV folks, and we have never had a DVR. I'd be willing to buy
an inexpensive one, but shopping and Googling confuses the heck out of me.

For example i see these:
  --
https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-EzRecorder-Definition-Recording-ER130/dp/B00LAP3GC8
I see I have to add my own USB hard disk (which I have). Would that do it?

Slingbox:
  -- https://www.amazon.com/Sling-Media-SB375-100-Slingbox-M2/dp/B011QHAOWO
Would that do it?

Also:
https://www.amazon.com/Hauppauge-1212-Definition-Personal-Recorder/dp/B0018LX0DY
PVR? Personal Video Recorder?


Comcast is our provider. Is there a way to do this without additional
hardware?

I need to record stuff Thursday & Friday.

Anybody willing to give me a kick me in the right direction?

Ken


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Re: Chilkat SFTP component.

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Tracy Pearson wrote:

Mike Copeland wrote on 2016-10-11:

  Tracy Pearson wrote:
  I have not gotten the ASYNC functions to bubble up. However, with the
  object.heartbeatMS and VFPs EventHandler(), I have prevented Windows from
  reporting the program as Not responding.
  Wow, that's huge! Kudos!
  
  Have you noticed that Win10 is a LOT better about this? (not reporting

  unresponsive)
  
  Mike Copeland
  

Mike,

It just takes an additional mouse click in Windows 10 for a program to be
flagged unresponsive.

Tracy Pearson
PowerChurch Software


Ah, so Win10 doesn't flag until the mouse click occurs? Well, that's 
better than Win7.


Mike

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Tracy Pearson wrote:

I have not gotten the ASYNC functions to bubble up. However, with the
object.heartbeatMS and VFPs EventHandler(), I have prevented Windows from
reporting the program as Not responding.

Wow, that's huge! Kudos!

Have you noticed that Win10 is a LOT better about this? (not reporting 
unresponsive)


Mike Copeland

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Re: [NF] Job hunting humor

[Mike Copeland]

Huh...I saw it as an "accidental accuracy" myself. One of those rare 
mistakes that actually provides more truth than usual.


Mike

Kurt Wendt wrote:

Well - at least they got the "W" part right! HA HA! Its pretty funny! I think 
the problem is - sometimes the HR Dept's of co's post the jobs - but, they don't really 
understand or fully know the job requirements. And, sometimes the Tech dept. isn't very 
helpful in telling HR what they are looking for. So - then the HR dept puts BS together 
in a Job descript - which only makes people looking for jobs have a good laugh! But - 
yeah - that's pretty funny to see in a job listing - I must say.

Regards,
Kurt Wendt
Senior Systems Analyst


Tel. +1-212-747-9100
www.GlobeTax.com


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I just found the following requirement in a job listing, and had to share it.

"Strong understanding of WCF (windows complication framework or foundation)"


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Re: [NF] Looking for Alpha 5 (Alpha Anywhere) users

[Mike Copeland]

Alan,
No, but it looks interesting. Where's the gotcha?
Mike

Alan Bourke wrote:

Have you looked at OutSystems?




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Re: [NF] Looking for Alpha 5 (Alpha Anywhere) users

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Thanks, Malcolm!

Well, my great feedback is that I would really like for the premise AA 
brings to be true...write once and deploy as web browser page, IOS app, 
and Android app, as well as a Windows fat client. And, after spending 
considerable time watching video, reading, and hands-on, I think the 
power and ability is there, but this really reminds me of herding cats!


Some problems seem so obvious: the editing of code for events is done in 
modal windows. So if you're writing/editing code in the click event of a 
button, you have to close that window to go look for the name of an 
object you want to reference. (Yes, I know there are popups that provide 
suggestions all over the place, but so far I haven't gotten my head 
wrapped around what those popups are providing.)


In general, the interface was obviously designed by someone intimately 
familiar with the system over a period of time, but without a road map 
or master plan. It just feels like 'this' was tacked on to 'that' which 
used to be called 'those' and was added to 'them.' And all along the 
way, they didn't bother to document anything.


In their defense, there are hundreds of hours of video, free for the 
watching, but as I told the salesrep I spoke with, you can't keyword 
search a video and you have to sit and pay attention to the entire thing 
to get (maybe) what you were looking for. And, some of the videos were 
made by people who obviously didn't receive any training in speaking 
(every other word is "uhm").


Like you, I want this to work. That's why I wanted to ask some general 
questions to determine if there is light at the end of this long dark 
tunnel.


I did submit a pre-sales question email and, in what seems to be the 
Alpha-way, it precipitated an online video/voice conference with myself, 
a sales rep, and a technician. Kind of overkill considering that my 
question was to confirm that their server software could be deployed 
without a Windows Server license. So I tried to be supportive and asked 
a few other Qs for clarification...
"Is Alpha Anywhere the successor to and based on (and therefore 
inclusive of) Alpha 5?" Answer: Yes
"Does AA read and write natively to DBF files without corruption during 
multi-user access?" Answer: Yes. A5 used DBF files as its main, native 
format for data storage.
And I had a how-to question about passing data values from one object to 
a memory variable, and the tech was very quick to provide the same 
answer I had already found (but it threw an error message when I tried 
it). After that the tech said he needed to get on another call and 
excused himself. Turned out that my error was due to having started with 
an example object and making changes that broke the design.


All in all, some odd choices for how to present their product, a premium 
price, in my opinion, and a pretty steep hill to climb to overcome the 
poor documentation. I did point out to the salesrep that the docs were 
poorin typical salesrep style he agreed completely and said that was 
a very high priority to fix...in fact, they have hired someone to clear 
it up.


One final item. As $2500/year is a bit steep for my needs, the salesrep 
asked if I had a client that I could charge it off to. I said that my 
clients pay all my bills, eventually. I'm not sure he got that. Then he 
offered that if I wanted to pay for three years in advance, they would 
consider it a license for life. In other words, $7500 now and nothing 
ever again. But, that would not include any bug fix releases or 
upgrades, ever. I would come back to any subsequent product release as a 
new customer. While interesting, that just doesn't feel like a good 
option to me, considering the newness of the HTML5 platform and rapid 
change of mobile platforms.


Mike

Malcolm Greene wrote:

Hi Mike,

I've taken a look at AlphaFive from time to time based on customer
interest in this product.

You would think that with Dan Bricklin at the CTO helm this would be a
killer product, but I'm just not seeing it.
http://www.alphasoftware.com/people.asp

Like you I found the documentation disappointing and the underlying
VB-like language kludgey.

Would love to hear some great feedback - this is a product I really
wanted to like.

Malcolm


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Re: [NF] Looking for Alpha 5 (Alpha Anywhere) users

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Yeesh, dude, read what you wrote before sending!

My second Q (below) should have said that I'm thinking about the 
$1500/year version of Alpha Anywhere (client-side only) and pairing it 
with Foxweb on the server end. If you're not familiar with Foxweb, you 
submit text indicating functions and parameters via HTML put and get 
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more than that, but I'm not sure I need all the bells and whistles.


Mike

Mike Copeland wrote:
I know I've seen posts on here from at least one user of Alpha XBasic 
software. I'm now on day 15 of my 30 day trial and have a few generic 
questions...


Stuff like:
Is Alpha Anywhere mostly about Javascript/HTML5 and brings along the 
XBasic and Alpha5 infrastructure as a freebie? Or is the Alpha5 XBasic 
more integral and important than it seems to be. (It seems most tasks 
are accomplished with Javascript.)


Is the Client/Server version ($2500 year) worth the extra $1k over the 
basic package, or can the server functions be accomplished in other 
ways? I have a copy of and have used FoxWeb, which has always seemed 
clunky, but it works. Could that be used in place of the Alpha 
Anywhere Client/Server or is that a false savings?


Is the Alpha Anywhere documentation as bad as I think it is? Or am I 
just acting my age ("You kids! Get off my lawn!")


And a few other tidbits.

I'd be happy to take this off-list if it produces too much noise for 
everyone, but then maybe some others would find the info useful...I 
dunno.


Thanks for any responses.

Mike Copeland



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[NF] Looking for Alpha 5 (Alpha Anywhere) users

[Mike Copeland]

I know I've seen posts on here from at least one user of Alpha XBasic 
software. I'm now on day 15 of my 30 day trial and have a few generic 
questions...


Stuff like:
Is Alpha Anywhere mostly about Javascript/HTML5 and brings along the 
XBasic and Alpha5 infrastructure as a freebie? Or is the Alpha5 XBasic 
more integral and important than it seems to be. (It seems most tasks 
are accomplished with Javascript.)


Is the Client/Server version ($2500 year) worth the extra $1k over the 
basic package, or can the server functions be accomplished in other 
ways? I have a copy of and have used FoxWeb, which has always seemed 
clunky, but it works. Could that be used in place of the Alpha Anywhere 
Client/Server or is that a false savings?


Is the Alpha Anywhere documentation as bad as I think it is? Or am I 
just acting my age ("You kids! Get off my lawn!")


And a few other tidbits.

I'd be happy to take this off-list if it produces too much noise for 
everyone, but then maybe some others would find the info useful...I dunno.


Thanks for any responses.

Mike Copeland


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Re: Mopier mode printers and multiple collated copies

[Mike Copeland]

Ted Roche wrote:

When in doubt, blame Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, as
everyone else is:)
Hey, I've gotten more printer-related complaints about Win10 (pre Anni 
Ed) than any other version of Windows, and far more complaints and 
problems with Win10 printing than anything else Win10 related.


It looks like they rewrote most of the printing subsystem in an attempt 
to be more Cloud-oriented???


Very odd stuff, like Windows 10 automatically switching the port on a 
network printer set to an IP address port to an SWD port?


Single pages that used to take sub-seconds to eject the page now take 15 
to 20 for the first page to appear. All the same hardware, just an 
upgrade to Win10 (yes, I know, look for updated printer drivers.)


Mike

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Re: JPG files refuse to show themselves

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Again, this is just a WAG, but I suspect that Windows 10 didn't have a 
defined default "process this file extension with this application" link 
in the registry even though Paint was coming to the rescue, probably as 
a default fallback app for any graphics file.


Mike

Sytze de Boer wrote:

What I can't follow is that when I'm in Windows explorer and double the jpg
file, all goes fine
But, when I use the shellexecute process it does not

So what exactly is shellexecute?



On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


Great!

Win 10 has some quirks, to say the least.


Mike

Sytze de Boer wrote:


Defaulting the system to use Photo instead of Paint has solved the
problem.


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

I would try changing the default application for that file type extension

(JPG) in the SETTINGS dialog. Windows 10 seems to handle file
associations
a little different.

Just a WAG.

Mike


Sytze de Boer wrote:

Thank you all

EDIT made no difference
JPEG made no difference

Any other suggestions?





On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com>
wrote:

Just curiousIf you change the file extension to .jpeg if it still
acts


the same way (wrong.)

I had a client just a week ago who began having trouble with JPG files
after their computer was upgraded to Win10 Pro. Changing the file
extension
to JPEG made their email program begin working again.

Again, just curious what might happen in your case.

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

yes win 10


On 22/08/2016 8:14 PM, "Mike Copeland" <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Windows 10?

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

Paint

On 22/08/2016 7:54 PM, "Alan Bourke" <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm>

wrote:

What opens JPG when you double-click on one?


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Re: JPG files refuse to show themselves

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I would call it an API...but I'm just an old Foxpro hacker, not a 
systems operations C+ guy. I'm sure there's a TLA for it...some name 
that makes it sound valuable.


Mike


Sytze de Boer wrote:

What I can't follow is that when I'm in Windows explorer and double the jpg
file, all goes fine
But, when I use the shellexecute process it does not

So what exactly is shellexecute?



On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


Great!

Win 10 has some quirks, to say the least.


Mike

Sytze de Boer wrote:


Defaulting the system to use Photo instead of Paint has solved the
problem.


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

I would try changing the default application for that file type extension

(JPG) in the SETTINGS dialog. Windows 10 seems to handle file
associations
a little different.

Just a WAG.

Mike


Sytze de Boer wrote:

Thank you all

EDIT made no difference
JPEG made no difference

Any other suggestions?





On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com>
wrote:

Just curiousIf you change the file extension to .jpeg if it still
acts


the same way (wrong.)

I had a client just a week ago who began having trouble with JPG files
after their computer was upgraded to Win10 Pro. Changing the file
extension
to JPEG made their email program begin working again.

Again, just curious what might happen in your case.

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

yes win 10


On 22/08/2016 8:14 PM, "Mike Copeland" <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Windows 10?

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

Paint

On 22/08/2016 7:54 PM, "Alan Bourke" <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm>

wrote:

What opens JPG when you double-click on one?


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Re: JPG files refuse to show themselves

[Mike Copeland]

Great!

Win 10 has some quirks, to say the least.

Mike

Sytze de Boer wrote:

Defaulting the system to use Photo instead of Paint has solved the problem.


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


I would try changing the default application for that file type extension
(JPG) in the SETTINGS dialog. Windows 10 seems to handle file associations
a little different.

Just a WAG.

Mike


Sytze de Boer wrote:


Thank you all

EDIT made no difference
JPEG made no difference

Any other suggestions?





On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Just curiousIf you change the file extension to .jpeg if it still acts

the same way (wrong.)

I had a client just a week ago who began having trouble with JPG files
after their computer was upgraded to Win10 Pro. Changing the file
extension
to JPEG made their email program begin working again.

Again, just curious what might happen in your case.

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

yes win 10

On 22/08/2016 8:14 PM, "Mike Copeland" <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Windows 10?


Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

Paint


On 22/08/2016 7:54 PM, "Alan Bourke" <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

What opens JPG when you double-click on one?



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Re: JPG files refuse to show themselves

[Mike Copeland]

I would try changing the default application for that file type 
extension (JPG) in the SETTINGS dialog. Windows 10 seems to handle file 
associations a little different.


Just a WAG.

Mike

Sytze de Boer wrote:

Thank you all

EDIT made no difference
JPEG made no difference

Any other suggestions?





On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


Just curiousIf you change the file extension to .jpeg if it still acts
the same way (wrong.)

I had a client just a week ago who began having trouble with JPG files
after their computer was upgraded to Win10 Pro. Changing the file extension
to JPEG made their email program begin working again.

Again, just curious what might happen in your case.

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:


yes win 10

On 22/08/2016 8:14 PM, "Mike Copeland" <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Windows 10?

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

Paint

On 22/08/2016 7:54 PM, "Alan Bourke" <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

What opens JPG when you double-click on one?



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Re: JPG files refuse to show themselves

[Mike Copeland]

Just curiousIf you change the file extension to .jpeg if it still 
acts the same way (wrong.)


I had a client just a week ago who began having trouble with JPG files 
after their computer was upgraded to Win10 Pro. Changing the file 
extension to JPEG made their email program begin working again.


Again, just curious what might happen in your case.

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

yes win 10

On 22/08/2016 8:14 PM, "Mike Copeland" <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


Windows 10?

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:


Paint

On 22/08/2016 7:54 PM, "Alan Bourke" <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm> wrote:

What opens JPG when you double-click on one?



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Windows 10?

Mike Copeland


Sytze de Boer wrote:

Paint

On 22/08/2016 7:54 PM, "Alan Bourke" <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm> wrote:


What opens JPG when you double-click on one?



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Re: Handling POP3 Email in folder structures

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Joe,

A couple of observations...

POP3 is a communications protocol for transferring email messages 
between server and client (and vice versa). The other protocols being 
IMAP and Exchange among others.


I suspect the emails are in what I call EML format which is technically 
MIME RFC 822 which was kind of standardized by Microsoft Outlook Express 
"back in the day."


If it is EML format, you can pretty easily chop it up into the pieces 
that can be used to display the entire message in a VFP form (if that's 
your goal.)


Here's some code from a form I use in one of my applications that allows 
the user to view an EML file.


with thisform
lcFile = GETFILE('eml','Select email file','Open',1,'Email Viewer')
test=FILETOSTR(lcFile)

lcTo=STREXTRACT(test,'To: ',CHR(13),1,1)
.lbTo.caption=ALLTRIM(lcTo)

lcfrom=STREXTRACT(test,'From: ',CHR(13),1,1)
.lbFrom.caption=ALLTRIM(lcFrom)

lcdate=STREXTRACT(test,'Date: ',CHR(13),1,1)
.lbDate.caption=ALLTRIM(lcDate)

lcsubject=STREXTRACT(test,'Subject: ',CHR(13),1,1)
.lbSubject.caption=ALLTRIM(lcSubject)

LOCAL lcShow
lcShow=SYS(3)+'body.mht'
STRTOFILE(test,ADDBS(GETENV("TEMP"))+lcShow)

WITH .oBody
.navigate(ADDBS(GETENV("TEMP"))+lcShow)
.document.DesignMode = 'on'
.silent=.t.
ENDWITH
ENDWITH

Obviously there is a form, with a few labels (lbTo, lbFrom, lbDate, 
lbSubject) and an OLE IE explorer object for displaying the HTML body of 
the email (oBody)


Try it out, it works pretty well for my needs.
Mike

Joe Yoder wrote:

I have a situation where an old Email client is being retired.  That client
stored email in folder structures.  Each Email is a separate file which I
believe remains in the POP3 format in which it was downloaded.  The goal is
to treat the Email as a company resource that can be accessed by anyone who
has a need to see it.


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Re: Mobile App

[Mike Copeland]

Just throwing this point in regarding XOJO...they don't do Android, yet. 
Maybe Android never, but I have no way of knowing.


Mike

Sytze de Boer wrote:

With all this talk about platforms and languages, I'll throw this out there.

I would like to design something that will work on a mobile phone.
Apple and.or Android

1 Your system device name.

Can be a serial number or some other unique 10 character value

2 Start Date/time

3 A 10 digit number

4 Stop date/time

  Email this data to an email address

After emailing, a button to erase the data file.

In VFP terms, a table with columns like

SYSNAME C(10)

STARTTIME  (Date/time)

JOBNUM  N(10)

STOPTIME ( Date/time)

Is this a Xojo job I should attempt or is someone able to do this for me
(PAID of course)





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Re: Development platform/language

[Mike Copeland]

Chime away, Kevin!

Your point is well made, that there are trade offs in practically every 
aspect of technology. I was able to invest about 2 hours into my first 
working, useful XOJO utility (along with some Google time) and it is a 
nice change to have the web and IOS platforms, literally, a few clicks 
away after developing on Windows.


Mike


Kevin Cully wrote:

Let me chime in for Xojo again.

Behind the scenes Xojo is using Javascript frameworks. In effect 
they've chosen the best of breed Javascript frameworks for my 
benefit.  The difference is that they're using this framework to 
communicate back to the web server where Xojo code is running. This 
has some benefits and some expenses as well:


Benefit: The Xojo based web application is amazingly compatible across 
platforms and browsers. Basically it's establishing a connected 
session back to the web server. It's also easy to use their framework 
to detect whether you're on a full browser or whether you're on a 
phone/tablet that needs a simpler page sent down. For us application 
developers, it makes it easy for us to look good for being mobile 
friendly.


The expense: Given the above, it does make Xojo web applications more 
"chatty". They communicate back to the server more than an optimized 
Javascript web application might.


All said, it is an amazing product that can turn desktop developers 
into web and mobile developers within a days time. Worth taking a look 
at.


Side note: for my open sourced VFP to Xojo converter, check out this 
link: https://bitbucket.org/kcully/vfptoxojo


-Kevin


On 07/31/2016 12:43 PM, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote:

There will be a lot of movement on top languages, depending on the
application type and environment, but particulary in web languages.
Some big companies are using various of them, because of this 
movement, and

because of the rise of new ones based on old known ones.
In example, Java is used a lot and keeps evolving too fast: Java 6 
was the

kings for various years, then came Java 7, 3 years later Java 8 (2014),
this year Java 9 and Java 10 is in development.
HTML 5 + Javascript 5 (now 6) + CSS 3 (and 4 any time soon) is a 
must: They
are avolving fast too, and Nodejs is growing at light speed. I think 
that

Nodejs is a very interesting and power language (based on JS), because
allows you Javascript on client and server side, it's very scalable and
will be fantastic on many environments, including IoT.

All this came with a lot of complexities, because now yo don't have 
"one"

language for programming, testing and debugging, but 2 or more, so
development is more tedious, tricky and difficult, and there are many 
more
variables for web development. Rick Strhal surely can talk a lot 
about it :)


On the desktop side the movement is not that high, may be because almost
everybody wants "web" apps, that at this time can interact like desktop
apps with the bonus of conectivity and ease of deployment.

I'm missing the VFP calm winds. Too many languages out there and new 
ones

every time make some caos for my taste.



2016-07-31 7:32 GMT+02:00 Edward Leafe <e...@leafe.com>:


On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


In the past a lot of discussion has focused on Python, and there's
always Ruby, etc., and I'm impressed with XOJO...what I've seen so 
far. Of
course Microsoft is still a player, but other than Visual Foxpro, 
what is
the current "most likely to succeed" development platform/language 
in this

group's opinion?

It hasn't changed much over the last few years. Python is clearly the
leading language, while Java still trudges along. The only new thing 
would

be Go, which is getting a lot of traction thanks to Google.


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Re: Development platform/language

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Fernando D. Bozzo wrote:

There will be a lot of movement on top languages, depending on the
application type and environment, but particulary in web languages.
Some big companies are using various of them, because of this movement, and
because of the rise of new ones based on old known ones.
In example, Java is used a lot and keeps evolving too fast: Java 6 was the
kings for various years, then came Java 7, 3 years later Java 8 (2014),
this year Java 9 and Java 10 is in development.
HTML 5 + Javascript 5 (now 6) + CSS 3 (and 4 any time soon) is a must: They
are avolving fast too, and Nodejs is growing at light speed. I think that
Nodejs is a very interesting and power language (based on JS), because
allows you Javascript on client and server side, it's very scalable and
will be fantastic on many environments, including IoT.

All this came with a lot of complexities, because now yo don't have "one"
language for programming, testing and debugging, but 2 or more, so
development is more tedious, tricky and difficult, and there are many more
variables for web development. Rick Strhal surely can talk a lot about it:)

On the desktop side the movement is not that high, may be because almost
everybody wants "web" apps, that at this time can interact like desktop
apps with the bonus of conectivity and ease of deployment.

I'm missing the VFP calm winds. Too many languages out there and new ones
every time make some caos for my taste.


Excellent feedback and observation, Fernando! Thank you very much for 
your input! As always it is frustrating when trying to determine where 
to invest your time for learning and gaining expertise.


Mike

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Edward Leafe wrote:

On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


In the past a lot of discussion has focused on Python, and there's always Ruby, etc., and 
I'm impressed with XOJO...what I've seen so far. Of course Microsoft is still a player, 
but other than Visual Foxpro, what is the current "most likely to succeed" 
development platform/language in this group's opinion?

It hasn't changed much over the last few years. Python is clearly the leading 
language, while Java still trudges along. The only new thing would be Go, which 
is getting a lot of traction thanks to Google.

-- Ed Leafe


Thanks, Ed! Appreciate the opinion/advice!

Mike


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Re: Development platform/language

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Ted Roche wrote:

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Just throwing it out there...curious what the pulse is and where things seem
to be going in mid-2016. Have a great weekend!


JavaScript is The Next Big Thing two years ago, which means it's
finally maturing and improving in compatibility (i.e., Microsoft is
finally catching up.) There's a lot of cool stuff happening in this
old language.

Virtual/container/boxes are all the rage, essentially chroot without
the difficulties. "Those who fail to appreciate the mainframe are
doomed to reinvent them."

Ruby is an updated and prettier Perl, a fun language imo. I would like
to see more commandline and GUI toolkits for Ruby, like Dabo on
Python.

Important to note Rails is not Ruby and Ruby not rails. Think
Foundation classes vs. Visual Foxpro. The Rails 5 folks have made a
pretty incredible framework, but Rails needs constant upkeep and
maintenance. If you are going to build the World's Greatest Website
and employ a team to continuously improve it, Rails is great. If your
business model is more "build something for a client and check in with
them every couple of months, upgrade every three years" Rails is NOT
the system for you. It's the High-Maintenance Boy/Girlfriend of
frameworks; the benefits are great, but the upkeep is a chore.

Python is an elegant language with a lot of support up and down the
application spectrum, from desktop single-user to complex distributed
client-server stuff.

I know Kevin's a big Xojo fan and more power to him, but I just think
the proprietary model is difficult for the vendor and the
developer/user to arrive at a commercial balance that works for both
of them. If you pay $795 and can use it all over the world forever,
the vendor can't make money supporting it. And if you have to pay $95
per year per installation, it eliminates entire classes of software
solutions due to the expense. And, of course, there's always the
threat that the vendor will decide to rewrite their product in Visual
Pascal or J##.


Thanks, Ted! As usual, complete, thorough and well presented! :)

I agree with your assessment about virtual/container/boxes being the 
rage. That's kind of like the concept of paper clothing from the 
60's...use once and throw away, so who cares what happens to it (except, 
well, fire.) After cleaning up behind several terminated employees and 
wondering what their home looks like (i.e. hoarders) I have to admit I 
wouldn't mind just wiping it all away and throwing a new workstation on 
the system.


Based on your info, above, I would assume that if you were to make a 
personal choice it would either be Javascript or Python?


Mike

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Re: Development platform/language

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Bill Arnold wrote:

I can't answer your question satisfactorily, but I think about it a lot with
close to a half million VFP LOC to manage. Some related comments:

I don't think the language/dev system we're looking for exists yet, but I
hold out hope that one will emerge in the time we have left. There are other
xBase centric languages out there
(see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:XBase_programming_language_family  for
one list, but I see it doesn't show Alaska software). Obviously, the trick
is for one or more of these vendors to match (most of) VFP and provide a
language converter from VFP to their product. Can they? I think so. Look at
all the progress one person, Christof, has made on his own!  The world has
vast numbers (and growing) of programmers looking for worthwhile apps to
develop, and this is certainly one such.

As to the 'time we have left', it's totally up to MS. They can kill VFP
outright or by a death of a thousand cuts if they want to, but my gut
feeling is they wouldn't and VFP9 apps will
continue to run under Windows for years to come (best case "for the life of
Windows"). Indeed, it's even possible that our VFP licenses may prove to be
quite valuable at some point.

In a worst case scenario we can always turn to VM and run VFP9  under an
older version of Windows

Bottom line, for me, is that I'm continuing to develop with VFP (with all
the enthusiasm as ever) and hoping such a bridge appears before it's time
runs out.

Bill


Great to hear from you, Bill!

I came to the same "full speed ahead, damn the absence of corporate 
acknowledgement VFP exists!" conclusion soon after VFP's demise was 
announced. As long as it keeps working...it's the most productive 
platform for me by a wide margin.


I recently discovered vDOS (vdos.info) and can't get over the joy of 
firing up a Foxpro DOS application on my Windows 10 Pro 64-bit desktop! 
vDOS is fast, easy to use, and it works! If anyone is curious, vDOS is 
based on (fork of) DOSBox. But, according to the vDOS author, DOSBox + 
Foxpro DOS  = data corruption due to the DOSBox authors including some 
network data buffering (delayed writes.) I have a client using 6 WIN10 
Pro workstations with vDOS + my Foxpro DOS application simultaneously, 
and no data corruption issues so far. The users like not having to start 
the virtual computer, then start the app.


So far I'm really happy with VFP9 on Win10. I noticed last night that 
Win10 workstations no longer leave file handles open when my 
applications shut down. When the workstations were running Win7 Pro, 
probably half of the 50 workstations that connected to my Linux data 
server would report DLL files remaining open and active after all the 
VFP9 applications on the workstation were closed. Plus, the overall 
network management (listing of files in Windows Explorer, mapping 
drives, disconnecting drives) is snappier and more reliable.


You mentioned VM's on Win10 to run VFP9...I found that Oracle's 
VirtualBox is much slower at writing text to files, although overall the 
speed is fine. The best performer, for pure speed of all overall 
operations, is VMWare Workstation 12 Player. But, to use in a business 
environment it's $150 per workstation. vDOS seems to be even slower than 
VirtualBox for high volume text-to-file IO, but it is very acceptable 
otherwise.


Mike

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Re: Development platform/language

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I agree, Kevin...I'm a huge fan of the multi-platform support, and hope 
they include Android soon/someday.  I've played with XOJO long enough to 
create a simple MariaDB server monitor that was easy to create, 
dependable to use, and provided a business benefit to boot. I really 
like the activity and enthusiasm of the XOJO community!


Thanks for your input!

Mike

Kevin Cully wrote:
I'll chime in again that I'm a fan of Xojo and a long time customer.  
It's great to be able to develop as we had with VFP in a singular IDE, 
and compile for multiple platforms.  This includes using some of the 
same business classes for web, desktop and console.


Reasonably priced with licensing policies that we're used to.

Free to try and run, you just can't compile to an Exe/application 
without paying for the appropriate license.


There's some warts and shortcomings, but that's just like VFP. All I 
can say is "I like it" and you can quote me on that. :D



On 07/29/2016 06:54 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
Just sitting here on a hot July Friday and pondering development 
platforms and languages.


In the past a lot of discussion has focused on Python, and there's 
always Ruby, etc., and I'm impressed with XOJO...what I've seen so 
far. Of course Microsoft is still a player, but other than Visual 
Foxpro, what is the current "most likely to succeed" development 
platform/language in this group's opinion?


Just throwing it out there...curious what the pulse is and where 
things seem to be going in mid-2016. Have a great weekend!


Mike Copeland



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Re: Cannot Write to Read Only File

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Charles,

I would strongly recommend you check out VDOS at vdos.info.

I've been using it to run my Foxpro DOS program on Win 10 Pro systems 
for a few weeks now and it's impressive. (Free, but donation suggested.)


I don't know that it will removed your Read Only issue, and yes I have 
seen that myself but I don't know what is causing it.


VDOS is exceptionally easy to set up, too.

Mike Copeland

Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote:

FPW26 pops this error for every loading of programs:
Cannot Write to Read Only File

I just got a new PC.

It runs WIN10 64 bit.

I loaded VMWare Player Station 12 running WIN XP SP3

I went to the Host folder [FPW26] and unticked [Read Only] and included
subfolders.

Each time I check the properties on the Host, [Read Only] contains a black
square.

What is my next step?







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Development platform/language

[Mike Copeland]

Just sitting here on a hot July Friday and pondering development 
platforms and languages.


In the past a lot of discussion has focused on Python, and there's 
always Ruby, etc., and I'm impressed with XOJO...what I've seen so far. 
Of course Microsoft is still a player, but other than Visual Foxpro, 
what is the current "most likely to succeed" development 
platform/language in this group's opinion?


Just throwing it out there...curious what the pulse is and where things 
seem to be going in mid-2016. Have a great weekend!


Mike Copeland


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Re: Windows 10 and Append General

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Here's (possibly) some helpful info.

I have a client that I upgraded from Win7 to 10, and he uses Excel a 
LOT. There's a website that he goes to and they have a link he clicks 
that downloads a collection of data that is autoloaded from the browser 
into Excel. Well, after working for years with Win7, now with Win10 he 
clicks and the web page opens Excel, but there's no data.


I haven't solved the problem yet, but I suspect that a registry link 
that connects data types (i.e., CSV) is no longer there or it's broken. 
So, I'm going to uninstall and reinstall Office on Win10 to see if that 
solves the linkage problem.


My point being that your app was probably depending on some connection 
provided by the registry (provided by the installation of Word) that is 
now broken.


Hope that helps somehow.

Mike

Sytze de Boer wrote:

So I have used this approach for 20 years and it has always worked
My client prepares an invoice using Word
The file is "INV"+alltrim(str(invnum))+".DOC"
E.g. INV12345.DOC

The system says
append general rtfgen from  LINK

It is then easy to print this on the report

It seems this no longer works with Win10

My thoughts at this time are to no longer store the data in a General
field, and to print the DOC file as part of the report.
BUT, I can't figure how to do that.
I can print pictures, BMP's, Gif's etc, but not a Doc file

Can anyone throw some light on this, or offer some suggestions?




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Re: [NF] Windows 10 upgrade out to lunch

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Joe,

After upgrading 150+ (with 47more to go) systems in the last 3 weeks, I 
recommend two steps that seem to make a huge difference.


1. Make sure the account you are logged in with when you run the upgrade 
is an ADMIN account.
2. Download and use the "Media Creation Tool.exe" to do the upgrade. 
Download it at

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/

I stopped caring why a long long time ago, but for whatever reason step 
2 is HUGE! Ignore all the other prompts and temptations...pretend you 
don't see them...download and run (and respond to) the Media Creation 
Tool and you may still have problems, but it's much much likely to work.


As may have already been mentioned, a reboot, sometimes two, never hurts.

Good luck!

Oh, and I might mention that I've decided to forego upgrading any 
laptops as all of the ones I'm responsible for are over 3 years old and 
most of the unsuccessful upgrade complaints I've heard of came from 
laptop owners.


Mike

Joe Yoder wrote:

I have a small laptop with Windows 7 that I would like to upgrade to
Windows 10.  The machine has the Get Windows 10 icon in the system tray.

Every time I click the icon, a Get Windows 10 window opens and after a
brief pause at "Please wait", the screen displays sections "About Windows
10" and "Get the upgrade."  Then at the bottom of the window there is a
large bold font message "All done for now" followed by "There's nothing
else you need to do.  You'll get a notification on your PC or tablet when
Windows 10 is ready for you."

This condition has persisted for weeks and I expect without intervention it
will continue after the end of July.  I have Googled everything I can think
of but no one seems to have the same problem. There are numerous entries
about problems but they are typically accompanied by error messages which I
would welcome but don't get.

Any experience or thoughts?  Perhaps I should take this as a sign that I
should keep this machine on Win 7?

Thanks in advance,

Joe


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Re: Happy 4th July....

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I had no idea Hillary was related to Hitler!

But that explains so much...thanks!

Mike


Geoff wrote:

In a world of ironies... the UK is without a PM or even an opposition of
note and here in Australia we now don't have a  government either. With the
USA having to soon choose between a poor candidate and Hitlers lost
grandson, this makes a whole heap of great nations with some serious
political problems.

Puts some perspective into things...



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Re: Win10 upgrades, was: Brexit, was: Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

[Mike Copeland]

Thanks, Gianni! I'll step through it again and make sure I use the 
preferred process.


Mike


Gianni Turri wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:11:35 -0500, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


Ted Roche wrote:

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

I tried downloading and
burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always asks for a Registration
Key even when updating a valid installation. After it rejected 5 different
keys, three brand new and had never been used, I gave up on that approach.


What's your goal here: avoiding the 3Gb+ download for each
workstation, or doing a clean install?

I've done the latter, and didn't need to use a registration key by
wasting a lot of bandwidth:

1) Do the local "upgrade" to upgrade the existing install to Win10
2) Download the 75 Mb media tool.
3) Use the tool to download the 3Gb+ media AGAIN and create new media
for a clean install (USB tab highly recommended!) and then install the
clean version over the dirty, upgrade-in-place version.

Great question, Ted!

My goal is to get this done as easily as possible. Beyond that,
quickness and reliability are good.

I did download the upgrade tool, then the files to burn an upgrade DVD.
That's what I tried using on a few systems that I have physical access
to, and every time I tried using it, one of the very first steps was to
enter the Windows Key, which I did, and it said the key was invalid. The
last attempt, which I think was the 4th or 5th machine, I even tried
using a key that I recently purchased for building a new system, and
that was rejected as invalid. So, on my scoresheet, DVD upgrade is (1)
not easy, (2) not quick...although it is reliably failing.

Over the last few days I've upgraded 12 systems and what works best, for
me, is to either re-enable the Win10 Upgrade icon in the system tray and
use that (I had disabled the upgrade a few months back with the GWX
Control Panel from the UltimateOutsider.com) or to download the
Microsoft updater, which appears to do the same thing as the Win10
Upgrade utility that was auto-installed.

So all that to say that downloading for each workstation seems to be the
best approach for me, so far.

And, so far with the exception of Logmein needing to be uninstalled and
reinstalled, the process has been remarkably reliable and smooth,
although not fast. Most of the time is spent with modifying the new
Win10 install to remove/prevent access to various customization features
that I don't want/need end users to have (corporate environment.) I'm
seeing where using Active Directory would be a great benefit, but I
don't plan on doing this long enough to justify making the change now.

Mike

Hi Mike,

there should be a button to Skip the Product Key insert during installation.

The same installation disk should permit clean install and upgrade install.

When you run the "media creation tool" follow these guidelines:

- select Create installation media for another PC

- choose the language, the edition and the architecture (choose 32-bit AND 
64-bit)

- choose to create a USB key if you know for sure that the pc's you want 
upgrade can boot from a USB drive

Look at the Windows 10 page for further help:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10




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Re: Win10 upgrades, was: Brexit, was: Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

[Mike Copeland]

Ted Roche wrote:

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

I tried downloading and
burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always asks for a Registration
Key even when updating a valid installation. After it rejected 5 different
keys, three brand new and had never been used, I gave up on that approach.


What's your goal here: avoiding the 3Gb+ download for each
workstation, or doing a clean install?

I've done the latter, and didn't need to use a registration key by
wasting a lot of bandwidth:

1) Do the local "upgrade" to upgrade the existing install to Win10
2) Download the 75 Mb media tool.
3) Use the tool to download the 3Gb+ media AGAIN and create new media
for a clean install (USB tab highly recommended!) and then install the
clean version over the dirty, upgrade-in-place version.

Great question, Ted!

My goal is to get this done as easily as possible. Beyond that, 
quickness and reliability are good.


I did download the upgrade tool, then the files to burn an upgrade DVD. 
That's what I tried using on a few systems that I have physical access 
to, and every time I tried using it, one of the very first steps was to 
enter the Windows Key, which I did, and it said the key was invalid. The 
last attempt, which I think was the 4th or 5th machine, I even tried 
using a key that I recently purchased for building a new system, and 
that was rejected as invalid. So, on my scoresheet, DVD upgrade is (1) 
not easy, (2) not quick...although it is reliably failing.


Over the last few days I've upgraded 12 systems and what works best, for 
me, is to either re-enable the Win10 Upgrade icon in the system tray and 
use that (I had disabled the upgrade a few months back with the GWX 
Control Panel from the UltimateOutsider.com) or to download the 
Microsoft updater, which appears to do the same thing as the Win10 
Upgrade utility that was auto-installed.


So all that to say that downloading for each workstation seems to be the 
best approach for me, so far.


And, so far with the exception of Logmein needing to be uninstalled and 
reinstalled, the process has been remarkably reliable and smooth, 
although not fast. Most of the time is spent with modifying the new 
Win10 install to remove/prevent access to various customization features 
that I don't want/need end users to have (corporate environment.) I'm 
seeing where using Active Directory would be a great benefit, but I 
don't plan on doing this long enough to justify making the change now.


Mike

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Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

[Mike Copeland]

There may be, but I'm not using AD and these are all actively-being-used 
Win7Pro systems. Each one has some slight variation, like the printer(s) 
that are installed, etc.


Mike Copeland


Alan Bourke wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jun 2016, at 08:56 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:


Only 180+ systems left to go...

No way to automate this? Microsoft Deployment Toolkit etc?




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Re: [NF] Just like VFP...

[Mike Copeland]

Dave Crozier wrote:

Well 12+ hours in from Brexit and the world hasn't ended and life seems to be 
carrying on much like before... in fact even the weather is the same i.e. Crap!

As for VFP, been up and running on Windows 10 64 Bit now for a week and no 
problems to report at all apart from the fact that it runs much faster than on 
Windows 7 (same machine and memory). Only gripe is that Windows has 
automatically rebooted twice for updates (presumably)  overnight as I put this 
as the preferred update time and subsequently reloaded my two USB security 
disks which were encrypted but with the wrong drive assignments and leaving 
them locked by Bitlocker. Hence my overnight backups haven't been successful - 
Hey Ho, Life goes on!

Dave

Dave,
I spent the last 4 days working on upgrading several Win7 Pro systems to 
Win10 Pro, and late last night I finally found the right combination of 
pieces to make it all work well. I upgraded my personal workstation 
using the online upgrade, and not a single application suffered in the 
process (and I have a gob of various programs installed on my 1TB drive!)


I did find that it's a very good idea to use an Administrator account to 
do the upgrade. Also, if you have Logmein installed, the Win10 upgrade 
will fail complaining about incompatible video drivers. I tried 
downloading and burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always 
asks for a Registration Key even when updating a valid installation. 
After it rejected 5 different keys, three brand new and had never been 
used, I gave up on that approach.


Only 180+ systems left to go...

I agree that VFP9 SP2 seems snappier and so far I've seen just one true 
bug in the VFP+Win10 combo...which is that the caption bar control box 
buttons will revert to their old XP style if you define and display a 
form maximized...but if you maximize the form after it has already been 
displayed, the control box (min, max, close) buttons will show with the 
new Win10 minimalized look.


Probably the best thing in my opinion is that when a command, like a 
slow SQL statement, takes more than a few seconds, you don't get that 
stupid Windows 7 "not responding" thing on the caption bar. Things still 
take a while, but Windows just takes it in stride better.


I would HIGHLY recommend getting the free for any type of use and very 
well done Classic Start Menu at www.ClassicShell.net. I spent hours 
trying to figure out how to limit the damage end users could do with the 
new Win10 start menu, but after replacing it with Classic Start Menu my 
problems are mostly over. (I'm still trying to eliminate OneDrive from 
appearing in the File Explorer.) Also, check out the Ultimate Windows 
Tweaker 4.1.1 at www.TheWindowsClub.com. It will save you a lot of time 
with the Group Policy Editor (if, like me, you aren't using a domain.)


Mike Copeland


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Re: [NF] Remote printing

[Mike Copeland]

Whoanow that I know what I'm looking for, I'm finding articles and 
blogs and how-to's all over.


Thanks again, Ted!

Mike

Ted Roche wrote:

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

  all servers are Linux,


Well, you're saved then. Linux has been printing over the internet
since there was one!

Is there any interconnectivity between the two offices now? VPN,
stunnel, ssh? Pretty much anything that would allow port forwarding
would do.

If not, set up a persistent ssh tunnel. For security sake, you'll want
to use a non-standard tunnel and a public key, private key pair, no
passwords allowed, to minimize the hacking surface between the two.

Install CUPS on both local and remote servers.Forward port 631 (CUPS)
from the remote machine to the local, on a different port, and define
a printer on the local CUPS server that prints to that port.

Easy-peasy.





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Re: Excel automation

[Mike Copeland]

Here's a snippit of code I have been using with great success recently. 
I wish I remembered where it came from but it is the best way to 
terminate a Windows application that I've found.


I use it to close the application if it is left running by the end user. 
It simply tests to see if the # of seconds since midnight is greater 
than a predefined # of seconds. For your need, I don't think you'd need 
the time check.


Hope this helps!

LOCAL loLocator, loWMI, loProcesses, loProcess, llIsRunning
loLocator = CREATEOBJECT('WBEMScripting.SWBEMLocator')
loWMI= loLocator.ConnectServer()
loWMI.Security_.ImpersonationLevel = 3
loProcesses= loWMI.ExecQuery([SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE 
Name = 'MyApplicationName.exe'])

FOR EACH loProcess in loProcesses
loProcess.Terminate(0)
ENDFOR

Mike Copeland


rafael copquin wrote:
I've been using the following technique to open an instance of Excel 
for years:


If Upper(Vartype(Thisform.oExcel)) = "O"
Thisform.oExcel.Quit
Thisform.oExcel = null
Else
Thisform.AddProperty('oExcel')
Endif

If Upper(Vartype(Thisform.oExcel)) <> "O"
Thisform.oExcel=Createobject("Excel.Application")
Else
Thisform.oExcel=Getobject(,"Excel.Application")
Endif

The above is taken from the Hacker's Guide

However, sometimes Excel throws an error.
Therefore in my form class error method I put this construct:

If nError = 1426  && Excel error

   If Vartype(thisform.oExcel ) = "O"

  thisform.oExcel.quit
  Thisform.oExcel = null

endif
endif

Yet, it does not kill the Excel instance. I mean, the Excel instance 
is still open. It just does not go away. The only way to kill it is to 
open the task manager and kill it manually


I follow the Excel method step by step, and reproduce the error 
condition. The error method fires, the oExcel object exists, the line 
"thisform.oExcel.quit" executes, but it does not kill the Excel instance




Rafael Copquin



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Re: [NF] Remote printing

[Mike Copeland]

That makes total sense and yes, it's not a problem to communicate 
between a Linux box at the source location to the Linux box at the 
remote (printer) location. In fact, I already have a routine that runs 
every ten minutes and transfers an inventory status report (html) 
between these same two locations.


I LOVE this kind of stuff! Thanks Ted!

The only thing I've never done is set up a CUPS server, but I don't 
think it will be a problem.


Thanks again!

Mike


Ted Roche wrote:

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

  all servers are Linux,


Well, you're saved then. Linux has been printing over the internet
since there was one!

Is there any interconnectivity between the two offices now? VPN,
stunnel, ssh? Pretty much anything that would allow port forwarding
would do.

If not, set up a persistent ssh tunnel. For security sake, you'll want
to use a non-standard tunnel and a public key, private key pair, no
passwords allowed, to minimize the hacking surface between the two.

Install CUPS on both local and remote servers.Forward port 631 (CUPS)
from the remote machine to the local, on a different port, and define
a printer on the local CUPS server that prints to that port.

Easy-peasy.





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Re: [NF] Remote printing

[Mike Copeland]

No, no AD and therefore no print servers. All printers are IP (network) 
based and all servers are Linux, while workstations are Win7Pro.


Mike

Stephen Russell wrote:

It is how the network is configured where you want the printing to be done.


Do they use AD, and do you have print servers set up?  If so then you are
pretty close.  If the printers are just attached to a workstation then it
is harder.



On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


Thanks Stephen. That's one of my RG solutions. As you say, it requires a
PC in remote location that no one uses. Trying to keep people from mucking
with an un-attended computer in this company is like fighting off sex
addicts at a hooker's convention.

So Windows doesn't have any way to route packets via TCP-IP protocol to a
printer at a remote location? I find that surprising.

Mike C


Stephen Russell wrote:


1. Remote to a PC in that location.
2. VPN into the network



On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

I have a client who wants to be able to print from his computer to a

network-connected laser printer. No problem...except, the network printer
is in a different city 105 miles away.

I can think up a few "Rube Goldberg" solutions, but I'm guessing that
there is already a way...is there a "Windows Way" to do this?

Many thanks for any brain cycles.

Mike Copeland


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Re: [NF] Remote printing

[Mike Copeland]

Thanks, Ted.

I knew there was an Internet protocol that addressed printing...I just 
couldn't remember the name. I agree, opening a port for this specific 
option seems goofy though. The Google Cloud Printing looks really 
promising and there are a huge number of printers from many different 
manufacturers that support it. In fact, I installed a new Samsung 
printer yesterday that supports cloud printing by Google.


Mike

Ted Roche wrote:

Mike:

Several of the printer manufacturers offer the equivalent of Cloud
Print, like HP Mobile Printing:

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/mobility/overview.html?jumpid=va_r11400_mobileprinting

So, you might want to check if the manufacturer offers something similar.

Failing that, you can use IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) if your
router supports it.

Bear in mind any of these solutions open holes in firewalls to let
things through, and need to be reviewed carefully.



On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

I have a client who wants to be able to print from his computer to a
network-connected laser printer. No problem...except, the network printer is
in a different city 105 miles away.

I can think up a few "Rube Goldberg" solutions, but I'm guessing that there
is already a way...is there a "Windows Way" to do this?

Many thanks for any brain cycles.

Mike Copeland


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Re: [NF] Remote printing

[Mike Copeland]

That's kind of an interesting approach...so you would send it an email, 
it would 'fetch' the email like an email client, and then print the 
email and/or attachment? I wonder how it would format the attachment? It 
would have to open a DOC file as a Word document and then rasterize 
it...wow, that's a difficult (for them to make) solution!


Thanks Al!

Mike

Allen wrote:

My epson had an email address. Ive not used it for ages but it did work
Al

-Original Message- From: Mike Copeland Sent: Friday, June 10, 
2016 6:21 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Remote printing
I have a client who wants to be able to print from his computer to a 
network-connected laser printer. No problem...except, the network 
printer is in a different city 105 miles away.


I can think up a few "Rube Goldberg" solutions, but I'm guessing that 
there is already a way...is there a "Windows Way" to do this?


Many thanks for any brain cycles.

Mike Copeland



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Re: [NF] Remote printing

[Mike Copeland]

This looks very promising, Fred! Thanks!

I'm reading Google's fluffery now.

Mike

Fred Taylor wrote:

Google "Google Cloud Print".  We used it for a saleperson we had in
Nebraska, so they could print here in Phoenix.  It worked pretty well, in
spite or them having a satellite internet service, which in most ways was
just horrible.

Fred

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


I have a client who wants to be able to print from his computer to a
network-connected laser printer. No problem...except, the network printer
is in a different city 105 miles away.

I can think up a few "Rube Goldberg" solutions, but I'm guessing that
there is already a way...is there a "Windows Way" to do this?

Many thanks for any brain cycles.

Mike Copeland


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Re: [NF] Remote printing

[Mike Copeland]

Thanks Stephen. That's one of my RG solutions. As you say, it requires a 
PC in remote location that no one uses. Trying to keep people from 
mucking with an un-attended computer in this company is like fighting 
off sex addicts at a hooker's convention.


So Windows doesn't have any way to route packets via TCP-IP protocol to 
a printer at a remote location? I find that surprising.


Mike C


Stephen Russell wrote:

1. Remote to a PC in that location.
2. VPN into the network



On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:


I have a client who wants to be able to print from his computer to a
network-connected laser printer. No problem...except, the network printer
is in a different city 105 miles away.

I can think up a few "Rube Goldberg" solutions, but I'm guessing that
there is already a way...is there a "Windows Way" to do this?

Many thanks for any brain cycles.

Mike Copeland


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[NF] Remote printing

[Mike Copeland]

I have a client who wants to be able to print from his computer to a 
network-connected laser printer. No problem...except, the network 
printer is in a different city 105 miles away.


I can think up a few "Rube Goldberg" solutions, but I'm guessing that 
there is already a way...is there a "Windows Way" to do this?


Many thanks for any brain cycles.

Mike Copeland

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Re: [NF] Web-based Database

[Mike Copeland]

John,
A few thoughts...
What software you use will depend on where you host the data.
Preferably it is hosted on a Linux box (because anything Microsoft is 
evil, lol) and you're correct that MySQL will be the target storage engine.


I would read up on
HTML for form creation
PHP for data processing
Javascript just in case HTML isn't able to do what you want.

Usually a simple HTML page with a PHP processing form to store/fetch the 
data is sufficient, but it really depends on how "slick" you want the 
interface on the web page to be.


In general, an HTML page, and a PHP form, are created using a simple 
text editor. Save the file, access it with a browser for testing. Oh, I 
recommend looking into HeidiSQL http://www.heidisql.com for managing 
your database. Free and very capable.


Books? I would start with articles on the web, just Google "using mysql 
and php" which will provide approx 22,100,000 links to some really good 
resources, like thewww.w3schools.com <http://www.w3schools.com> pages. 
Again, free.


And, if you enjoy seeing something work that you've never tried before, 
you'll love playing around with PHP! (Most website hosting companies 
provide Linux boxes with MySQL and PHP.)


Good luck and enjoy!

Mike Copeland

John Weller wrote:

I've said before that I am retired but occasionally dabble with databases to
help local charities.  I've been shown one, a database of talks given by
speakers in the area.  A blank Excel sheet is downloaded from a website for
users to add records.  The sheet is then emailed manually to a co-ordinator
to be added to a master Excel sheet.  A cut-down version is then uploaded to
the website for users to read and request further information on selected
talks.

This is crying out to be automated but unfortunately my web design skills
never got further than Front Page (don't laugh).  I assume that it would
involve MySQL on a web server.  Can anyone recommend some software
(preferably Open Source, charity = no money) and a suitable book that I
could use to create a suitable website?

Thanks

John

John Weller
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Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???

[Mike Copeland]

+1
Been using it since last January (I think). Works well, so far!

Mike

Philip Borkholder wrote:
Here is a product I downloaded and installed on my Windows 7 to remove 
the Windows 10 upgrade warning and block it completely from installing 
itself.

It's called GWX Control Panel
http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

Philip Borkholder

On 5/23/2016 2:00 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote:
Andy - that IS Abysmal news indeed! To say M$ has become Arrogant is 
almost putting it lightly. Oh well, at this point - nothing to do but 
move forwards...


On my Win8.1 laptop it keeps nagging about the Win10 update - and, up 
till now - I continue to just ignore the Nag - although, in the end - 
that IS the machine I will eventually update!


Regards,
Kurt Wendt
Senior Systems Analyst


Tel. +1-212-747-9100
www.GlobeTax.com


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Subject: Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???

Well, expiration has become a moot point - yesterday I found my Win7 
HP laptop displaying a screen saying "Installing Windows 10 Update - 
Do not switch off your PC".  I had NOT clicked accept.
This morning (!) the installation was complete. I could have declined 
to accept the ms licence, but in view of their amazingly arrogant 
behaviour I wasn't sure I wouldn't lose everything.
I declined all the snooping and new default app options and now have 
to find out what does and doesn't work on my Win10 laptop.

Words fail me - which is quite unusual!


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Re: [NF] Virtual Box

[Mike Copeland]

Mike,

I have the same situation, identical.

On my development workstation, Win7Pro, I have installed and set up my 
FoxPro 2.0 DOS application with DOSBox .74 (noconsole) and it works 
great. In fact, using DOSBox my FoxPro DOS app comes up immediately and 
there are no intervening steps, no 2nd OS interface to deal with.


The data files in my setup are actually on a machine in another city, 
accessed via VPN over the Intertube, and DOSBox handles it just fine (as 
a mapped drive.) So, yes, shared files in a MANY-multi-user environment 
(~250). I have not used this setup extensively with writing data...so it 
is possible that updating (writing to) index files or data files might 
have issues although I'm not sure why they would.


What I have NOT tried is printing from the DOSBox FoxPro DOS app. YMMV.

Mike Copeland


Michael Glassman wrote:

And does VirtualBox work with shared files in a multi-user environment?
That was always the downside to DOSBox.
I ask because we still are running one app in FoxPro for DOS under XP Mode
on Win7Pro 64-bit machines.

Mike



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Suh weet! Thanks Paul!

Mike Copeland

Paul Hill wrote:

On 11 May 2016 at 19:17, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Paul Hill wrote:

On 10 May 2016 at 15:04,
<mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com>
wrote:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I'm going to let my main dev machine do the free upgrade to Win10 soon.
I
bought a Win7 Pro license yesterday to put on another older Dell
laptop I've got (where I currently have Linux Mint on it).  Tech
buddy here at the Corporate gig suggested I get Virtual Box (free!)
to host multiple OSes.

Don't forget that Win 8/10 Pro comes with HyperV (Microsoft's VM).
You just need to enable it in Windows Features.


Does this mean that a valid licensed copy of WinXP could be installed
on a
Win10 machine?

Yes, if you have a license.  It doesn't come with one.




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Re: [NF] Virtual Box

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Suh weet! Thanks Paul!

Mike Copeland

Paul Hill wrote:

On 11 May 2016 at 19:17, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Paul Hill wrote:

On 10 May 2016 at 15:04,  <mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com>
wrote:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I'm going to let my main dev machine do the free upgrade to Win10 soon.
I
bought a Win7 Pro license yesterday to put on another older Dell laptop
I've
got (where I currently have Linux Mint on it).  Tech buddy here at the
Corporate gig suggested I get Virtual Box (free!) to host multiple OSes.

Don't forget that Win 8/10 Pro comes with HyperV (Microsoft's VM).
You just need to enable it in Windows Features.


Does this mean that a valid licensed copy of WinXP could be installed on a
Win10 machine?

Yes, if you have a license.  It doesn't come with one.




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Re: [NF] Virtual Box

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Paul Hill wrote:

On 10 May 2016 at 15:04,  <mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I'm going to let my main dev machine do the free upgrade to Win10 soon.  I
bought a Win7 Pro license yesterday to put on another older Dell laptop I've
got (where I currently have Linux Mint on it).  Tech buddy here at the
Corporate gig suggested I get Virtual Box (free!) to host multiple OSes.

Don't forget that Win 8/10 Pro comes with HyperV (Microsoft's VM).
You just need to enable it in Windows Features.



Does this mean that a valid licensed copy of WinXP could be installed on 
a Win10 machine?

Thanks Paul!

Mike Copeland

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Re: [NF] Virtual Box

[Mike Copeland]

I've got 6 Linux boxes set up with 16GB RAM and 500GB hard drives, 
running VBox and 6 virtual machines, each running Win XP in a 10GB drive 
space and 1.2 MB of RAM. Each XP instance is set to reboot every night 
and it works well.


I haven't tried Win 7 or 10 or any other OS as this setup provides 
exactly what I need.


Very stable, little to no maintenance, but I do monitor it daily.

Mike C

mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I'm going to let my main dev machine do the free upgrade to Win10 
soon.  I bought a Win7 Pro license yesterday to put on another older 
Dell laptop I've got (where I currently have Linux Mint on it).  Tech 
buddy here at the Corporate gig suggested I get Virtual Box (free!) to 
host multiple OSes.  I searched the archive for the past year and 
didn't find much other than a stray reference to it.


Anyone using Virtual Box and can attest to their experience with it?

Thanks,
--Mike



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Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???

[Mike Copeland]

No direct experience, just have helped a few clients downgrade to 7 
after they were hijacked to 10. I didn't care for 10, I don't see the 
benefit of 10 (to the user, I see a lot of benefit to MSoft) and at this 
point I'm willing to pay $130 for a copy of Win 10 'someday' if I ever 
decide it's the thing to do.


My understanding is that July 31, 2016 is the last day to upgrade for free.

I have a large client, over 250 machines, who wants to upgrade simply 
due to the economics of not having to purchase 250+ licenses in the 
future. They reason that "our users are young, they'll adapt."  Probably 
true.


Hope this helps.

Mike Copeland

Kurt@VRFX wrote:
So - I'm here on my laptop - and, as usual lately - as I boot up - I 
get the Dumb Ass Win10 Nag pop-up!


As such - it Begs the question. When does it expire? At which point I 
have to Pay - which I would rather not.


Although - am also curious as to how Good Win10 is. I know there has 
been a Lot of Shit talk about Win10. But, since Evil M$ decided to use 
the Whole World as Beta testers. I suspect that by now most of the 
Bugs have been worked out.


So - what say you all? Go for it and Upgrade - or should I say F That 
and just stick with what I have (Win 8.1 on my laptop & Win7 Pro on my 
Desktop)! Hell - I stuck with WinXP for years on my old Desktop - and 
things Win2000 Pro for Quite some time - before finally upgrading. As 
such - I have no problem holding off on this Win10 stuff if its Not 
dependable.


L8r,
-K-


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Re: Odd menu behavior in Win7Pro/VFP9SP2 all of the sudden

[Mike Copeland]

Corrupted font file?

Mike


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

On 2016-04-27 07:18, Ted Roche wrote:

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:32 PM,
 wrote:

All of the sudden, when I go into VFP and choose something off the main
menu, the dropdown area appears but it's all blank.  As I scroll 
down over

where the item choices would be, they appear as I scan over them.



And you haven't done anything to the machine since it was
well-behaved? Any updates? Newly installed hardware or software?
Anything funny in the logs? Have you turned it off and back on again?



Hey...interesting...it's not just in VFP!!  When I opened an image 
file in an editing programsame blank-until-you-scroll-over-choices 
behavior.



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Re: Top-Level forms with Modal In-Top-Level forms

[Mike Copeland]

Thanks Stephen!

Unfortunately, I get the error
"Cannot find entry point SetForegroundWindow in the DLL"

Maybe because this is Windows 7 Pro?

I also tried the API call for SetActiveWindowno effect.

I think it's likely due to my having disabled something on the modal 
form. What DOES seem to be helping (still testing) is to simply add 
ACTIVATE WINDOW Formname (where formname is the name of the main form). 
If further testing proves this to be a solution I'll update this thread.


Thanks for the input though!

Mike Copeland

Stephen Weeks wrote:

Put this code block after the form call in the top level form :-

DO FORM MYFORM

declare integer FindWindow in USER32.dll integer, string
declare integer SetForegroundWindow in User32.dll Integer
WindowTitle=chr(34)+alltrim(thisform.caption)+chr(34)
winHandle = FindWindow(0,)
if winHandle > 0
 SetForegroundWindow(winHandle)
endif

I use this across all my applications and it worlks a treat !


On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, at 10:39 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote:

Mike Copeland wrote on 2016-04-21:

  All,
  
  I have that "seen it before" nagging feeling about this problem...that

  I've seen the problem discussed here but I haven't located any answers.
  
  I have a form set as "As Top-Level Form"

  I have a second, modal form, set as "In Top-Level Form"
  
  After closing the second, modal form with close button on the second

  form, the close button on the Top-Level Form is not clickable (dimmed
  out) so you can't click it and shut the program down.
  
  But if you click "somewhere else" on the desktop, anywhere other than

  the Top-Level Form of the Foxpro VFP9 SP2 application, then you CAN
  click back on the Top-Level form and the close button is bright red and
  can now be clicked and the program closes.
  
  What in the heck is causing that and more important what is the

workaround?
  
  Thanks for any advice!
  
  Mike Copeland
  

Mike,

I'm unable to reproduce the behavior you speak of. I know I've heard it.
I don't work with that many top-level projects that have modal dialogs.
I have 1, and customers have not complained about it.
VFP 9 SP 1 - multiple OS's
Just tested a small project VFP 9 SP 2 patched to 7423 on Windows 8. I'm
not
seeing the behavior.

Tracy Pearson
PowerChurch Software



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Re: Top-Level forms with Modal In-Top-Level forms

[Mike Copeland]

Thanks Tracy. Appreciated.

I suspect it has something to do with a setting on the main desktop form.

Mike

Tracy Pearson wrote:

Mike Copeland wrote on 2016-04-21:

  All,
  
  I have that "seen it before" nagging feeling about this problem...that

  I've seen the problem discussed here but I haven't located any answers.
  
  I have a form set as "As Top-Level Form"

  I have a second, modal form, set as "In Top-Level Form"
  
  After closing the second, modal form with close button on the second

  form, the close button on the Top-Level Form is not clickable (dimmed
  out) so you can't click it and shut the program down.
  
  But if you click "somewhere else" on the desktop, anywhere other than

  the Top-Level Form of the Foxpro VFP9 SP2 application, then you CAN
  click back on the Top-Level form and the close button is bright red and
  can now be clicked and the program closes.
  
  What in the heck is causing that and more important what is the

workaround?
  
  Thanks for any advice!
  
  Mike Copeland
  

Mike,

I'm unable to reproduce the behavior you speak of. I know I've heard it.
I don't work with that many top-level projects that have modal dialogs.
I have 1, and customers have not complained about it.
VFP 9 SP 1 - multiple OS's
Just tested a small project VFP 9 SP 2 patched to 7423 on Windows 8. I'm not
seeing the behavior.

Tracy Pearson
PowerChurch Software



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Top-Level forms with Modal In-Top-Level forms

[Mike Copeland]

All,

I have that "seen it before" nagging feeling about this problem...that 
I've seen the problem discussed here but I haven't located any answers.


I have a form set as "As Top-Level Form"
I have a second, modal form, set as "In Top-Level Form"

After closing the second, modal form with close button on the second 
form, the close button on the Top-Level Form is not clickable (dimmed 
out) so you can't click it and shut the program down.


But if you click "somewhere else" on the desktop, anywhere other than 
the Top-Level Form of the Foxpro VFP9 SP2 application, then you CAN 
click back on the Top-Level form and the close button is bright red and 
can now be clicked and the program closes.


What in the heck is causing that and more important what is the workaround?

Thanks for any advice!

Mike Copeland

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Re: Water/Sewer billing software -- hopefully easy money opportunity

[Mike Copeland]

Comment and question...

There are a LOT of very bad utility software packages being sold "out 
there." My brother is a council member in our small town (35k 
population) and they have had a continuous stream of really bad 
"solutions" that have wasted a lot of money. Not saying you're another 
bad solution...rather I would suspect you're one of the unknown gems!


Do you know if your package would handle the new craze of meter readings 
being collected via WIFI repeaters located throughout the city? I assume 
they just feed them on a continuous stream to a database and then you 
read the desired values in as needed. The benefit being that a meter can 
help detect a leak/broken pipe when usage shoots up.


Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
I created a water billing software back in 2008. Here's a demo of it: 
http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com/demos/h2office/rough_overview_viewlet_swf.html 
(I realize some of those screens go by a bit too quick.)


I'd like to take this to the open market.  If anyone would like to 
partner this with me, send me an email.  You'll get a copy of the 
source code and 50% commission for clients you bring in with signed 
agreement.  I think (I hope!) this could be easy money.  I know it's 
2016, but maybe there's a water authority out there who would buy 
this.  VFP9SP3 with MySQL backend, designed in n-tier fashion.  Could 
be adapted for outside the US too if good fit. (I'm not sure how they 
do things across the pond for this?)  I've got just the one customer 
still using this.


Thanks!
--Mike




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Re: Used ReFox...CVW files?!??

[Mike Copeland]

I've got Refox, used Refox, still have the output from a few Refox 
decompilations...

I don't see any CVW extension files.

I do see weird stuff like
ApplicationName.exe.~.EXE
ApplicationName.exe.~.LST
ApplicationName.exe.~.APP
ApplicationName.exe_compile_data_.prg
etc.

I figure they're all pieces of the puzzle that are involved with the 
decompiling.


Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
On my way out the door now but wanted to start a thread on this.  Used 
ReFox on Jeff's EXE and it seems to have worked for the most part (at 
least it extracted files and folders).  I'll review them later today 
but noticed a bunch of files with a CVW extension.  Binging it shows 
it to be a CaseView document type.  Never heard of that one.  Anybody 
here ever use Caseview documents?


https://www.bing.com/search?q=CVW%20files=n=QBRE=cvw%20files=1-9=-1==8E3616DBC56C4096B3E3F821025428E0 




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Re: [NF] Getting MySQL integer primary keys (NOT AUTOINC) idea...similar to VFP's old IF SEEK("TheTable","Keys","TheTable") AND RLOCK('Keys') idea

[Mike Copeland]

Paul, Ted,

Got it! Thanks!

It's all about scope and being ready for the next level.

Mike

Ted Roche wrote:

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Paul,

If I were to say "that's overkill for my application's needs" you would
say?

Just wondering what I'm not understanding here. Is it that I'm thinking too
small?


Satellite offices. With UUIDs, each app can create *unique* IDs that
don't have to be changed when you merge IDs from multiple sources.
Solves problems with roaming salesman, remote offices, off-line use,
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Re: [NF] Getting MySQL integer primary keys (NOT AUTOINC) idea...similar to VFP's old IF SEEK("TheTable","Keys","TheTable") AND RLOCK('Keys') idea

[Mike Copeland]

Paul,

If I were to say "that's overkill for my application's needs" you would 
say?


Just wondering what I'm not understanding here. Is it that I'm thinking 
too small?


Mike Copeland

Paul McNett wrote:

On 3/9/16 3:17 PM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

I created the new incarnation of FabMate a year ago with 16-byte
character keys.  Works fine, but I wanted to entertain the idea of using
integer keys again instead (because I love the idea of 4 bytes instead
of 16)


You are concerned about using 16 bytes instead of 4? IMO you should be 
using 40-byte uuids for everything these days.


Paul


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Re: ReFox to reverse compile a VFP9 EXE?

[Mike Copeland]

I have used Refox many times. Works great, less filling.

Mike Copeland

mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

On 2016-03-23 11:36, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

I'm trying to help one of Jeff Johnson's (RIP) customers and sadly,
they don't seem to have the source code.  (Good lesson to be learned
here.)

Can I use ReFox to somehow get the source code from the distributed
EXE (assuming he didn't use ReFox to encrypt it)?

Other suggestions?

tia,
--Mike



This looks like it *should* work, but I just wanted to see if anyone 
here has successfully used it.


http://www.refox.net/-overview.html

tia,
--Mike



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Re: MariaDB ODBC Connector 1.0 for Windows in VFP

[Mike Copeland]

I've never used the MariaDB ODBC connector.
I've always used the MYSQL ODBC 3.51 driver. Works great against both 
MySQL and MariaDB, all versions I've tried.

Currently using MariaDB 5.5.28

Mike Copeland

Fred Taylor wrote:

Anybody familiar with the MariaDB ODBC  Connector for Windows?  I can't get
connected using it as I get an "Connectivity Error: Unknown system variable
'max_allowed_packet_size'".  This is the 32 bit driver on a Win7 32bit
machine. when using SQLSTRINGCONNECT("Driver={MariaDB ODBC 1.0
Driver};Server=localhost;UID=myuser;PWD=mypwd;DB=test;Port=3306;")

I can create a DSN and it says it connects in the Test mode, but I can't
connect using that DSN (same error as above).

I've googled for this error and literally nothing of pertinence shows up.

I can get the MySQL ODBC 5.3 driver to work, but no luck with the MariaDB
Connector.

Fred


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Re: ctSCHEDULE ActiveX control odd behavior

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Lol...well THAT'S significant!

Thanks! I learned something today. Never ever stick your butter knife in 
an electrical outlet.


Mike

Tracy Pearson wrote:

Mike Copeland wrote on 2016-03-11:

  Excellent advice. Thank you! I'll try that.
  
  I have to say, though, that I've been unimpressed with using Lost- and

  GotFocus as they seem to be tempermental. Or maybe that's me, not them.
  "It's me, not you!"
  UIEnable seems to be more reliable...but then I mostly use it for
  controlling the first Init loading of data on a tab control.
  
  I wonder how UIEnable is different than GotFocus? I'm sure there's

  something significant.
  
  Mike
  

Mike,

UIEnable only works on tabs.
GotFocus and LostFocus have uses, such as I suggested. They are not good for
data updates and the like that take time.

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Excellent advice. Thank you! I'll try that.

I have to say, though, that I've been unimpressed with using Lost- and 
GotFocus as they seem to be tempermental. Or maybe that's me, not them. 
"It's me, not you!"
UIEnable seems to be more reliable...but then I mostly use it for 
controlling the first Init loading of data on a tab control.


I wonder how UIEnable is different than GotFocus? I'm sure there's 
something significant.


Mike

Tracy Pearson wrote:

Mike Copeland wrote on 2016-03-11:

  Well...that's intuitive! Not! lol
  Thanks for the update! VFP does seem to have some issues with sharing
  attention with DBI Tech's controls.
  
  My unsolved mystery is that with ctSchedule on one form and with Tool

  Tips enabled and populated for the time bars, if any other form is over
  the ctSchedule object the Tool Tips for it still pop up as if it had
  focus and was on top. It's annoying and a bit embarrassing ("Why does it
  do that?") but isn't a deal breaker.
  
  I haven't had time to play with it but I suspect I could add a

  conditional test in the ctSchedule event to ensure it has the
  appropriate form.ZOrder before firing.
  
  Mike
  

Mike,

I had not noticed that behavior before.
May I suggest setting Disable/Enable TipTypes in the Forms LostFocus and
GotFocus.

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Re: ctSCHEDULE ActiveX control odd behavior

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Well...that's intuitive! Not! lol
Thanks for the update! VFP does seem to have some issues with sharing 
attention with DBI Tech's controls.


My unsolved mystery is that with ctSchedule on one form and with Tool 
Tips enabled and populated for the time bars, if any other form is over 
the ctSchedule object the Tool Tips for it still pop up as if it had 
focus and was on top. It's annoying and a bit embarrassing ("Why does it 
do that?") but isn't a deal breaker.


I haven't had time to play with it but I suspect I could add a 
conditional test in the ctSchedule event to ensure it has the 
appropriate form.ZOrder before firing.


Mike

Tracy Pearson wrote:

Mike Copeland wrote on 2016-03-11:

  I use it, but have not seen that behavior. Sorry!
  If I can think of anything to try, I'll follow up.
  
  Mike Copeland
  

Mike,

I tinkered.
I added the following code to the ScrollTrack method of the control.
 *** ActiveX Control Event ***
 LPARAMETERS nscrollbar, nvalue, nscrolltype
 This.SetFocus()

It has appeared to fix the problem in testing.

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Re: ctSCHEDULE ActiveX control odd behavior

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I use it, but have not seen that behavior. Sorry!
If I can think of anything to try, I'll follow up.

Mike Copeland

Tracy Pearson wrote:

Hello,

I just had a customer report they would look at a form in our program that
uses the ctSCHEDULE control. I'm not sure if I just have an old version in
my distribution and this behavior has already been fixed. I thought I would
ask if anyone else uses this control and can reproduce it before spending a
lot of time with it.

Here's the trouble. With this control on a data entry form, the user can
scroll in the control, then using the mouse click on another field and type.
The keystrokes never come out.

Clicking a button on the form works.

Press the tab key when on the control, and things start to work again.

ctSchedule is a DBI-Tech control:
http://www.dbi-tech.com/download/demos/html/solsched7/flashhelp/welcome/welc
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Re: [NF] MySQL InnoDB seems to use more space than MyISAM....why??

[Mike Copeland]

But to your point, those InnoDB files can be fat little piggies!

The other problem is that they tend to grow and never shrink. My 
understanding (likely flawed) is that you have to create a new duplicate 
table, copy the data across, delete the old table, and rename the new. 
Not unlike what Foxpro does in the background with a pack.


I started using MyISAM tables exclusively, until I ran into locking 
deadlocks that hung everyone up. Switched the affected tables to InnoDB 
and have never had a problem since.


Mike Copeland

mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

Perfect.  Thanks!

On 2016-03-10 12:02, Mike Copeland wrote:

In general I would say that the designers of the InnoDB data storage
file system were more concerned with transactional accuracy and row
locking than they were with space efficiency.

Here's a good concise (space efficient!) article that explains the 
details.

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/01/innodb-myisam-and-disk-space_16.html

Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

tech:  MySQL/MariaDB backend, version 5+

Anybody know why the same field structures but using the Inno engine 
type causes a table size to be much larger than if it's a MyISAM 
table type?  I do realize the benefits of using InnoDB for 
transactions, btw.


Just curious why MyISAM smaller, given same structure.

Thanks,
--Mike



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Re: [NF] MySQL InnoDB seems to use more space than MyISAM....why??

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In general I would say that the designers of the InnoDB data storage 
file system were more concerned with transactional accuracy and row 
locking than they were with space efficiency.


Here's a good concise (space efficient!) article that explains the details.
http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/01/innodb-myisam-and-disk-space_16.html

Mike Copeland


mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

tech:  MySQL/MariaDB backend, version 5+

Anybody know why the same field structures but using the Inno engine 
type causes a table size to be much larger than if it's a MyISAM table 
type?  I do realize the benefits of using InnoDB for transactions, btw.


Just curious why MyISAM smaller, given same structure.

Thanks,
--Mike



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Re: VFP9 copy to clipboard causes VFP to 'hang' for long period

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Tracy Pearson wrote:

Mike,

You could try to clean out the FoxUser for updated < gomonth(date(), -2)

Then I'm looking at the Id field and seeing WINDSNIP. It seems to match up
to places I've copied code from recently.
Perhaps you can delete those Id's from the table, then pack it.

HTH,
Tracy


Tracy,

So far, so good. For anyone else interested...

I first tried putting a CONFIG.FPW file containing the line 
"resource=off" in the startup folder where VFP9.exe is located.
Sure enough, the copy command now worked fine but VFP was brain-dead, 
not offering any help...like all the settings that I have grown to 
depend having it remember. Not a good option. So I removed the 
config.fpw file and everything went back to previous behavior (including 
the lock up on copy to clipboard.)


Next, on Win 7 Pro, I fired up VFP and used the SYS(2005) function to 
find the correct, actively-in-use FOXUSER file. It was in the hidden 
User AppData Roaming folder.

c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Visual Foxpro 9
I started up VFP, and issued the command "set resource off" from the 
command line (otherwise the FOXUSER file is locked.)

Use/Opened the table
use "c:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Visual Foxpro 
9\foxuser.dbf" in 0 exclu
Deleted all rows with ID field matching "WINDSNIP" or "SNIPLAST" (there 
were over 100 out of a total of 300)

Packed the table.
Exited VFP and restarted VFP.

Now, all my good stuff is remembered between sessions, and when I use 
the COPY to CLIPBOARD it doesn't lock up.


BTW, before the above 'fix' I had tried clicking the menu copy button on 
the toolbar, using the right-click copy option, and using CTRL+C on the 
keyboardall of them produced the same problem.


Hopefully this will resolve the "COPY OUT TO LUNCH" problem.

Thanks again, Tracy!

Mike Copeland

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Re: VFP9 copy to clipboard causes VFP to 'hang' for long period

[Mike Copeland]

Tracy Pearson wrote:

Mike,

You could try to clean out the FoxUser for updated < gomonth(date(), -2)

Then I'm looking at the Id field and seeing WINDSNIP. It seems to match up
to places I've copied code from recently.
Perhaps you can delete those Id's from the table, then pack it.

HTH,
Tracy


Tracy Pearson
PowerChurch Software

Thanks, Tracy! I will try that.

I admit I've never mucked around in the FOXUSER.DBF file before...it 
might even be self-evident.


Mike

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Re: VFP9 copy to clipboard causes VFP to 'hang' for long period

[Mike Copeland]

Thanks, Darren, for the validation!

For clarification, this happens when no other routine is running in VFP 
in any instance.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Open VFP
2. Open method on form "modify class formname of c:\work\gga.vcx"
3. Highlight text, press CTRL+C
4. Locked-up city

I usually just use task manager to kill the instance of VFP, which 
likely leads to the corruption of the FOXUSER.DBF table...


Mike Copeland

Darren wrote:

No solution ... but I have a similar issue and have just worked around it -
if I have a VFP app running and I try to use VFP itself (command window, prg
editing etc) then any use of the clipboard just takes forever. Be interested
to see if anyone else has the issue. The work around is to run the
application on a different machine.

-Original Message-
From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Mike
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To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: VFP9 copy to clipboard causes VFP to 'hang' for long period

I've had this annoyance for years...but it recently got really bad.

When I have a code window open (like for a form method) and I highlight a
word or string of word in the program code, as soon as I CTRL+C or click the
copy icon on the toolbar, VFP goes to lunch..."Not Responding"...window goes
white-ish.

If I let it sit, long enough (like up to 5 minutes), it will eventually
recover...until I commit the same mistake of trying to copy text to the
clipboard. (Which I do in order to search for other occurrences, etc.)

I had this trouble in the past and I finally decided to try the NUKE
solution and deleted the FOXUSER.DBF file.
BOING! Fixed that problem! Copy works like a big dog on steriods now!
Unfortunately, it also dumped all of the other 3000+ settings and things VFP
keeps track of for reuse later. Things like smartcomplete where you type
"do" and it pops up a list of all the programs you've recently
run...which I depend on a lot!

After a while, that good stuff builds back up and things are good again, but
the COPY to clipboard seems to be even worse now (freezing for even longer
periods.)

So, my question: Is there a way, like PACKing or deleting a certain row in
the FOXUSER file, to get the COPY to clipboard to work as it should but
without loosing all the good stuff VFP remembers? (like projects recently
worked on, etc.)

Thanks for any guidance...heck I'll even take a LMGTFY or three if it helps!

Mike Copeland


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VFP9 copy to clipboard causes VFP to 'hang' for long period

[Mike Copeland]

I've had this annoyance for years...but it recently got really bad.

When I have a code window open (like for a form method) and I highlight 
a word or string of word in the program code, as soon as I CTRL+C or 
click the copy icon on the toolbar, VFP goes to lunch..."Not 
Responding"...window goes white-ish.


If I let it sit, long enough (like up to 5 minutes), it will eventually 
recover...until I commit the same mistake of trying to copy text to the 
clipboard. (Which I do in order to search for other occurrences, etc.)


I had this trouble in the past and I finally decided to try the NUKE 
solution and deleted the FOXUSER.DBF file.

BOING! Fixed that problem! Copy works like a big dog on steriods now!
Unfortunately, it also dumped all of the other 3000+ settings and things 
VFP keeps track of for reuse later. Things like smartcomplete where you 
type "do" and it pops up a list of all the programs you've 
recently run...which I depend on a lot!


After a while, that good stuff builds back up and things are good again, 
but the COPY to clipboard seems to be even worse now (freezing for even 
longer periods.)


So, my question: Is there a way, like PACKing or deleting a certain row 
in the FOXUSER file, to get the COPY to clipboard to work as it should 
but without loosing all the good stuff VFP remembers? (like projects 
recently worked on, etc.)


Thanks for any guidance...heck I'll even take a LMGTFY or three if it helps!

Mike Copeland

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Re: Remote Desktop Options

[Mike Copeland]

I really really like ScreenConnect.com
https://www.screenconnect.com/Remote-Support

Not free, but solid, very well supported, and multi-platform.

I frequently do tech support on Windows clients from either my Android 
Samsung 5S phone or Samsung tablet.


Mike Copeland

Richard Caruso wrote:

Most of our clients use the Remote Desktop App RDP in Windows, but clients
have experienced the session screen turning black after some time.  We found
a Columbus Remote Desktop that seems to work fine, but it doesn't map local
drives.  Any Remote Desktop apps ProFoxers can recommend?

  


-Ric

  




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Re: [NF] A Good Browser?

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Also, check out Chromiumthe non-Google version of Chrome.

Mike

Alan Bourke wrote:

I find myself using Chrome more than anything else - it is
cross-platform and seems to remain light and fast even with plugins. You
might want to minimize the 'phoning home' aspects.

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Re: [NF] WIFI Blues

[Mike Copeland]

Ya know, I went back through some old notes the other day...info about 
Inet service specs, $ amount and providers over the last 15 years. It's 
astounding how much things have changed! I found where I signed up for 
an "always on" cable connection with 800Kbps down and 200Kbps up back in 
2002 and I even made the note "Fast!" Before that was dial on demand 
DSL, which I think was 512Kb down and 128Kb up.


Then in 2008 I went to 2Mb down, and in 2012 to 10Mb down, and 2014 to 
50Mb down. But as you know, the need always rises to meet the capability!


200Mb seems insane right now, but in 5 years... just amazing.

Mike

Ted Roche wrote:

Traffic shaping is your friend.

Many routers let you prioritize and/or maximize the amount of traffic
by type/protocol/port. Most video players are pretty savvy about
downshifting the resolution/ frames per seconds and caching so viewers
can still have an adequate experience with limited bandwidth.
Obviously, you're not going to put a lot of effort into what is
essentially an employee perk, but 200 Mbps is a lot of bandwidth and
ought to serve the group really well for a long time.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Ken Dibble wrote:

What does this do to your internet bandwidth?

Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org


Thanks, Ken.

So far, not seeing an impact, but I do monitor it closely. Especially on
game days in the fall (college football) and of course with the upcoming
Olympics in August it could be an issue.

The owners of the company have a very unique mentality that would best be
described as "we want the employees to like working here" to which I would
add that both of the principals are also big on the employees like them, the
owners. That goes a long way towards permitting and allowing a lot of
behavior that I have long railed against, been ignored, and later proven
right about when the behavior became outrageous. But...as I keep telling
myself, it's not my decision.

If I do detect, and can demonstrate, that the WIFI is creating bandwidth
issues, then there's always the throttling approach, and maybe someday it
will be necessary to discontinue the current free-for-all, but until then I
am finding it far far easier to direct rather than detect and fight. Thanks
for the thought cycles!

Mike Copeland


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Re: [NF] WIFI Blues

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Well, it's not cheap here... I think they're paying $798/mo unlimited 
data. But they're running all phone service over it via VOIP, and this 
facility is the hub (servers) for two other buildings, so it's justifiable.


I agree with you on the password, but because of the location of the 
building, and the size, it would be easy for someone in a hotel next 
door to connect with no password at all. I decided to keep it simple, 
like the name of the town the company is in, or the street name. Stuff 
that any employee can easily try. I've thought about posting the 
password on a bulletin board in the break room.


Mike

Ken Dibble wrote:



Symmetrical 200Mbps


Whoa!! No wonder!

Around these parts that would be horrendously expensive.

We have 25 mbps to share among upwards of 100 users. So ain't nobody 
watching Glee on my bandwidth.


I don't password the wireless though, because I don't want people 
calling me in the evening or on weekends to ask me what the password 
is. We have the WAPs positioned and shaped such that you can't get 
useful throughput outside the building.


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Re: [NF] WIFI Blues

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Symmetrical 200Mbps


 Original message 
From: Ken Dibble  
Date: 02/13/2016  9:35 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: profoxt...@leafe.com 
Subject: Re: [NF] WIFI Blues 


>"Bring your tablets! Connect your cell! Come one come all! Connect 
>all day, stay all night!"
>works a lot better than fighting and searching for rogue hardware 
>that has been plugged in to USB ports.

What does this do to your internet bandwidth? In my experience just a 
few people streaming Pandora or Netflix can bring a network to its 
knees unless there is a buttload of bandwidth.

Seriously, what speed is your internet?

Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org


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Re: [NF] WIFI Blues

[Mike Copeland]

Ken Dibble wrote:

What does this do to your internet bandwidth?

Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org


Thanks, Ken.

So far, not seeing an impact, but I do monitor it closely. Especially on 
game days in the fall (college football) and of course with the upcoming 
Olympics in August it could be an issue.


The owners of the company have a very unique mentality that would best 
be described as "we want the employees to like working here" to which I 
would add that both of the principals are also big on the employees like 
them, the owners. That goes a long way towards permitting and allowing a 
lot of behavior that I have long railed against, been ignored, and later 
proven right about when the behavior became outrageous. But...as I keep 
telling myself, it's not my decision.


If I do detect, and can demonstrate, that the WIFI is creating bandwidth 
issues, then there's always the throttling approach, and maybe someday 
it will be necessary to discontinue the current free-for-all, but until 
then I am finding it far far easier to direct rather than detect and 
fight. Thanks for the thought cycles!


Mike Copeland

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Re: [NF] CryptoPrevent, was: Phishing and security in general.

[Mike Copeland]

Eyup. Prevent it is. :/

I've not had any conflicts that I'm aware of, during installation of 
c-Prevent, or of any program installed after c-Prevent. I have it 
installed on at least 400 machines.


The one 'problem' with this, or any other kind of prevention tool is 
that attack vectors change, so CryptoPrevent from last year might not 
work against the new approach used by this year's CryptoLocker. But, the 
installation method used by the original c-Locker trojan was pretty big 
and the c-Prevent author's explanation certainly justifies the cost to 
block that path, in my opinion.


I might be getting jaded (ha!) but software reviews seem to be more 
advertorial than editorial these days...so unless a software company is 
ready to buy some click-through ads...


Mike Copeland

Ted Roche wrote:

Mike:

I think you meant CryptoPrevent, not "-Blocker" which is easily
confused with "-Locker" the malware.

This looks like a promising tool. Have you been able to install it
without running into program conflicts?

I'm poking around trying to find some 3rd party reviews of it,
especially reliable security sites, but haven't had a lot of luck.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

Peter,

I've been using CryptoBlocker, which is supposed to block the methods used
by the Cryptolocker trojan. You can read about the methodology here...
https://www.foolishit.com/cryptoprevent-malware-prevention/

It looks good to me and I've been installing it on all of the systems I
manage for a couple of years now.

I did have 1 client who experienced an attack/infection, paid the ransom and
got his files back. I think it was $600 US. That's the first encounter I've
had with it and I came across CryptoBlocker -after- that occurrence.

 From what i could tell, the infection came from a zip-file attachment sent
to my client, supposedly by a business contact. As it turned out, the
website that the email originated from had been compromised and actually was
the source.

Since then, I send out a "do not open any email attachment" warning to my
clients about every 6 months. So far, knock on wood...

I hope this helps.

Mike Copeland


Peter Cushing wrote:

Hi,

We got hit with a crytolocker/bitlocker attack last week. Fortunately we
have good backups so were able to restore, although 3gb of data took some
time to do.
What I want to do is go over what happened and see what approaches other
people have for these threats.

First thing we noticed was on Friday morning when somebody pointed out
that their files had been mashed.  Here's a few examples of what the files
got changed to:
/data/admin/misc files/FACTORY INFORMATION/fnwih0ocf.hoo7
/data/admin/misc files/FACTORY INFORMATION/g99q1kfz5.p9k0
/data/admin/misc files/FACTORY INFORMATION/og0u9pb.0gd
/data/admin/misc files/FACTORY INFORMATION/tb4qz.775x0
/data/admin/misc files/FACTORY INFORMATION/znxis7hgu.k7h
/data/admin/misc files/fi19fgq2r.69t
/data/admin/misc files/fjs6r76n.8gup
/data/admin/misc files/h2c0ew6pr.1gpd
/data/admin/misc files/h8jgb.c4v9
/data/admin/misc files/Halls Fashion/535p0e.ugc5a
/data/admin/misc files/Halls Fashion/halorr3vet.s9
/data/admin/misc files/Halls Fashion/nbhqgk5.a8ihp
/data/admin/misc files/hs93hlb9.9p
/data/admin/misc files/hxplu62l.mc9
/data/admin/misc files/i4jden.y7kx7
/data/admin/misc files/jaiytu55s.w2
/data/admin/misc files/kmp49j76.4b

Looking at the logs we soon found which machine it was although that
person had gone home on the Thursday and was not due back until the Tuesday.
Restored data and when the user got back we booted the machine up (not
connected to network!) and have since done scan using AVG, Superantispyware,
Avira, spybot search and destroy, kaspersky and malware bytes and still
found nothing.  We don't know if the virus was just memory resident or how
it worked but obviously want to find out.  Scanned all his emails and
nothing (his files stored in IMAP folders).  Nothing obvious in internet
logs.  Checked all processes running, startup programs, network setup etc
etc.  We'll probably just wipe the machine and start again but would be nice
to know what happened.

Lately we have been getting more and more phishing emails from random
users (pretending to be say DHL or some other company) with say an
attachment invoicexxx.doc or perhaps .docx .xls etc (where xxx is a random
number) which will turn out to be infected but not at the time the email was
received.  I.e the virus is too new to be detected.  We have run lots of
these through our own virus scanner (AVG) and say
https://www.virustotal.com/
and they have come up with nothing until hours later (which could be too
late).  Some show infected a couple of hours later and some maybe next day.
This latest development is very difficult to defend against if you cannot
scan the file and confirm it is infected.  Our mail server as AV software
which scans files but didn't pick these up and even if users are 

Re: [NF] Two modems on the same network

[Mike Copeland]

I've used around a dozen of the Cisco RV042 routers and they do have a 
few shortcomings. I'm currently looking for an alternative.


The problem with the RV042 (Cisco, or Linksys) that finally prompted me 
to look elsewhere is that the built-in DHCP server limits the # of 
connections to 50.


I've also experienced lockups where for no obvious reason on a fairly 
light work load, the router will have to be rebooted just because it 
went out to lunch.


And, just because it has the Cisco name on it, don't expect 
Cisco-quality support...this is in their "Small Office" line up and the 
support is small, too.


I've also had it refuse connections from a specific IP when there are 
multiple requests in too short a time frame. In other words if 10 or 
more computers at one location reboot and try to reconnect to a server 
behind the RV042, the RV042 may detect it as a synflood attack and 
refuse all connections...until a reboot of the router, then it works 
fine. I went round and round with several tiers of support techs at 
Cisco until the last guy said "Sorry, you need a different router."


Finally, the latest versions of both Chrome or Firefox browsers will not 
let you connect to the router interface for configuration, because there 
is a problem with the router's security certificate. You have to use IE 
or an older version of Firefox. Not a deal breaker but annoying when 
things aren't working and you are rushing around trying to figure out why.


But, when the RV042 (or RV042G) work, they're really easy to set up, and 
I usually pay around $110 through Amazon.


Mike Copeland

Ted Roche wrote:

We've mentioned the LinkSys (now Cisco) RV042 on this forum before.
Essentially, it's a router with two WAN ports. You can configure the
routing to failover from one to the other on failure, or balance the
traffic between the two, which should expand your internet bandwidth.

This device is getting on in its years, as a 10/100 router, and is
probably at a premium price, since it has the Cisco brand on it. But
it looks like you could find it for under $100, and it might be worth
trying out as an inexpensive solution. (There's also an updated
Gigabit model RV042G for around $150.)

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/routers/rv042-dual-wan-vpn-router/index.html


On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Joe Yoder <j...@wheypower.com> wrote:

I want to increase Internet access bandwidth on a network I manage.  The
only unmetered broadband available in the area is DSL so my only option
appears to be a second DSL modem. Ideally the two modems would  equally
share the load but I understand to do that properly requires a bonding
modem and possibly support by the ISP.

It seems a simpler approach might be to split the traffic between the
terminal services server and the machines connected to the server.  This
would mean that when a user accesses the Internet while in an RDP session
the traffic would go through the server modem.  If the user accesses the
Internet from a browser running on the local machine, the traffic would be
on the non server modem.

My question relates to how one configures such a setup.  Is it as simple as
setting up the second modem with its own static IP address and using that
address as the gateway address for the server and leaving everything else
the same?  Anything else?

Thanks in advance for any input!

Joe


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Re: [NF] CryptoPrevent, was: Phishing and security in general.

[Mike Copeland]

Ah Google-san! We would sit at your feet, but...

I'm pretty sure I read about C-Prevent in the Windows Secrets newsletter
http://windowssecrets.com

It was either started by Fred Langa, or he was heavily involved in it 
from the early stages. Fred's a pretty good guy and self-professed "Tech 
Writer from the Dark Ages."


Mike

Ted Roche wrote:

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote:

The one 'problem' with this, or any other kind of prevention tool is that
attack vectors change, so CryptoPrevent from last year might not work
against the new approach used by this year's CryptoLocker. But, the
installation method used by the original c-Locker trojan was pretty big and
the c-Prevent author's explanation certainly justifies the cost to block
that path, in my opinion.

I might be getting jaded (ha!) but software reviews seem to be more
advertorial than editorial these days...so unless a software company is
ready to buy some click-through ads...


True. All reviews ought to be considered with a grain of salt. I saw
the professional "reviewers" move in and take over Amazon a decade
ago, and it's clear that some of the "review" sites are not
journalistic efforts as much as advertising sites.

There aren't a lot of "general" computing sites left, but I follow a
few security sites (like isc.sans.edu) that tend to be pretty good at
reporting the current problems and prevention, if any.

And now, of course, my Google-fu kicks on, and I find a couple good write-ups:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/cryptoprevent/
https://askleo.com/why-havent-you-mentioned-cryptoprevent/





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