RE: Generate Word Forms from VFP?

2009-04-10 Thread Tracy Pearson
From my recollection of Word forms, each is unique. Unless there is built in form entry setup pieces in the report form no product would be able to know what is a form field. I'm pretty sure a form could be created and edited with automation. It's been a long time since I've been down that path

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread GN
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.comwrote: Yes! Now how much of a learning curve will you experience and will you get frustrated because the ease of VFP is only in VFP? That point is crucial because no matter what language you step into you will feel the

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread GN
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote: If you want to go down a Rich Internet Application route I would give Silverlight a serious look, the version 3 beta especially has a lot of functionality aimed at business applications. It seems to me to have more

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Alan Bourke
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:52 +0530, GN ghanshamna...@gmail.com wrote: You have suggested Silverlight, but considering fact that need to move away from VFP is caused by Microsoft, using any other product from same company becomes least preferred. Well, the world is your oyster in that

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Stephen Russell
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:22 AM, GN ghanshamna...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote: If you want to go down a Rich Internet Application route I would give Silverlight a serious look, the version 3 beta especially has a lot of

[OT] Snow mobile cause avalanche

2009-04-10 Thread Stephen Russell
http://tinyurl.com/c6545p pretty scarry! -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Web and Windows Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

RE: Generate Word Forms from VFP?

2009-04-10 Thread Kurt Wendt
What about using Automation. It doesn't cost anything extra. If Office is installed on the machine running your application - then you should be able to do what you need. I've done this in the past, used Automation (although, I must admit - that code is at my old job so I don't have any access to

Re: [OT] Snow mobile cause avalanche

2009-04-10 Thread Ken Kixmoeller/fh
On Apr 10, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: http://tinyurl.com/c6545p pretty scarry! Yes, if you were swept down a mountain, you might end up with some scars. g Folks who actually work for a living: there is some NSFW language in the audio track. Best to mute (doesn't happen

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Stephen Russell wrote: Just because your favorite tool has seen it's day in the sun and is now in the retirement home, dismissing all new replacements that the same company produces is foolish. Products some and go because of a host of reasons. You mean like MicroShit trying to make

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Stephen Russell
2009/4/10 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Stephen Russell wrote: Just because your favorite tool has seen it's day in the sun and is now in the retirement home, dismissing all new replacements that the same company produces is foolish.  Products some and go because of a host of reasons.

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Ed Leafe
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: In our industry you have to take change for what it is worth. IT pushes the envelope to do things faster and better. I believe that his point, and those of many others, is that Microsoft pushes the envelope to maximize revenue,

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Fred Taylor
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Ed Leafe e...@leafe.com wrote: On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: In our industry you have to take change for what it is worth. IT pushes the envelope to do things faster and better. I believe that his point, and those of many

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Stephen Russell wrote: 2009/4/10 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Stephen Russell wrote: Just because your favorite tool has seen it's day in the sun and is now in the retirement home, dismissing all new replacements that the same company produces is foolish. Products some and go

RE: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Bob Calco
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: In our industry you have to take change for what it is worth. IT pushes the envelope to do things faster and better. I believe that his point, and those of many others, is that Microsoft pushes the envelope to maximize

Line-Enders, Brain-Benders

2009-04-10 Thread Kenneth Kixmoeller
Hey - - -- - -- -- -- I'm confused. (Before anyone else: So what's new?) I am writing text to an Adobe proprietary format, called a tagged- text file. Don't worry about that, not too important to the story, but for the curious, is an ASCII file; the format is a sorta-hybrid among XML, plain

Re: Line-Enders, Brain-Benders

2009-04-10 Thread Paul Hill
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Kenneth Kixmoeller ken.kixmoel...@information-architecture.com wrote: My actual technique in the VFP program is to do a #DEFINE CRLF CHR (13). I started with CHR(13)+CHR(10) but it didn't work, either. I have tried putting the CHR(13) or CHR(13)+CHR(10) in there

RE: Generate Word Forms from VFP?

2009-04-10 Thread Rick Schummer
If the Word documents can be modified and you have some control over this, you might consider Word Bookmarks. Automation code is fairly straightforward. The approach allows users to maintain the documents/forms and provides you will simple search and replace techniques. Example code can be found

Re: Line-Enders, Brain-Benders

2009-04-10 Thread Ken Kixmoeller/fh
Hi, Paul -- - - On Apr 10, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Paul Hill wrote: Have you tried just CHR(10)? It's the standard in Unix-like systems. I think so, but I will try it again just in case. Question: I need to look at these files at the most intimate level to figure out what the differences are.

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Ed Leafe wrote: On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: In our industry you have to take change for what it is worth. IT pushes the envelope to do things faster and better. I believe that his point, and those of many others, is that Microsoft pushes the envelope to

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: 2009/4/10 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Stephen Russell wrote: Just because your favorite tool has seen it's day in the sun and is now in the retirement home, dismissing all new replacements that the same company produces is foolish. Products some and go because of

RE: [NF] linux for the damned

2009-04-10 Thread David Smith
Any website that opens with a 20 year old Iron Maiden quote can't be all bad :) Dave David Smith Systems Administrator Doan Family of Dealerships (585) 352-6600 ext.1730 dsm...@doandelivers.com www.upstatedigitools.com -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com

Re: [NF] linux for the damned

2009-04-10 Thread Helio Wakasugui
Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast quoted the bible. :-p HW On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Smith dsm...@doandelivers.comwrote: Any website that opens with a 20 year old Iron Maiden quote can't be all bad :) Dave David Smith Systems Administrator Doan Family of Dealerships

Re: Line-Enders, Brain-Benders

2009-04-10 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 14:00, Kenneth Kixmoeller ken.kixmoel...@information-architecture.com wrote: Question: I need to look at these files at the most intimate level to figure out what the differences are. Tools? Ideas? HOME(1) + \Tools\HexEdit\hexedit.app ?

re: Line-Enders, Brain-Benders

2009-04-10 Thread Joe Yoder
Ken, Call the code below with before and after versions of the file. The browse should come up with the first mismatch. Let us know what you learn - Joe * Compare two files byte by byte PARAMETERS m.fn1, m.fn2 CLOSE all m.str1 = FILETOSTR(m.fn1) m.str2 = FILETOSTR(m.fn2) CREATE CURSOR

Re: Line-Enders, Brain-Benders

2009-04-10 Thread Ken Kixmoeller/fh
Well, I used the nice hex editor Paul suggested, and found that it needed a CHR(13)+CHR(10) paragraph end, No surprise, it *is* defined as Windows ASCII. I had started with that -- a long time ago. It worked on my machine, but did not on the client's computer, and for some reason not on our

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Stephen Russell
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Ed Leafe e...@leafe.com wrote: On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: In our industry you have to take change for what it is worth.  IT pushes the envelope to do things faster and better.        I believe that his point, and those of many

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Ed Leafe
On Apr 10, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: When you live the life of a hater it is easy to never experience the quality that they present today in each new version released. And when you live the life of the cheerleader you tend to fail to notice that there are other teams

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Stephen Russell
2009/4/10 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Nooo. I think they killed the fox for our sake, so that we would be forced out and find Python, and Ed give us Dabo. How did they kill it? Is it no longer working? Or has the quality of other developer tools open source or

getautoincvalue and @@identity (VFP 9 and SQLServer)

2009-04-10 Thread Rafael Copquin
How does one obtain the last identity value generated when inserting into a SQL table from VFP, in the same way one uses the VFP getautoincvalue function? Rafael Copquin --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Stephen Russell wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Ed Leafe e...@leafe.com wrote: On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: In our industry you have to take change for what it is worth. IT pushes the envelope to do things faster and better. I

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Stephen Russell wrote: 2009/4/10 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Nooo. I think they killed the fox for our sake, so that we would be forced out and find Python, and Ed give us Dabo. How did they kill it? Is it no longer working? Or has the quality of

Re: getautoincvalue and @@identity (VFP 9 and SQLServer)

2009-04-10 Thread Fred Taylor
You can return the value in a batch of sql commands like this: nStat = SQLEXEC(nHandle,[insert into junk (f1) values ('abc');select @@identity]) The identity field value will be returned in cursor named sqlresult or you can name the result set like this: nStat = SQLEXEC(nHandle,[insert into

RE: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Rick Schummer
Why don't they let OTHER people keep developing it instead of discontinuing it? Oh! I know! It's because they want to present quality in the developer tool space. Microsoft has been very upfront on why this will not happen. The Intellectual Property is too valuable and has been migrated to their

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Rick Schummer wrote: Why don't they let OTHER people keep developing it instead of discontinuing it? Oh! I know! It's because they want to present quality in the developer tool space. Microsoft has been very upfront on why this will not happen. The Intellectual Property is too

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Stephen Russell
2009/4/10 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Presenting quality in the developer tool space?? Are you a person or just a Microshit ad? -- I am a VS2008 user and find this a good product. I am reading how VS2010 will enhance certain points that could

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Stephen Russell
2009/4/10 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: How did they kill it?  Is it no longer working?  Or has the quality of other developer tools open source or non lured developers away from VFP? Sorry, you are absolutely right, they didn't kill the fox. Everybody knows that! My bad.

Re: [NF] Adobe AIR

2009-04-10 Thread Stephen Russell
2009/4/10 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: As is your continual Microshit cheering. Which is, by the way, what provoked the rant in the first place. So let's make a deal, you stop putting your head up Bill's and I'll stop the rant. --- I still don't comprehend what you