RE: [Fwd: 121307 - Visual Foxpro v2.6 programmer/developer]

2007-12-14 Thread John Gunvaldson
St. Paul = sweetness & light, Minneapolis = ignorance & pain So true. I was born in Minnesota, raised in North St. Paul (and even acknowledge it )... Even the "Ice Follies" refuse to enter (or at least did) Minneapolis... John C. Gunvaldson _

RE: Friday Follies - can you guess???

2007-11-16 Thread John Gunvaldson
It's just that "elegance" makes it difficult for us hackers to understand. <<< We have a SQL developer that years ago introduced the concept of "ANDing" and "ORing" to the status values of many, many production process to the extent there is now tons of code like,,, WHEN e.STATUS & 0x400

RE: Question on Printable page vs. Whole page in RW (VFP9)

2007-11-09 Thread John Gunvaldson
question---when would you want to use Whole page? When printing Photos? On special Photo Paper? John ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: htt

RE: [NF] MS DOS Batch File

2007-11-02 Thread John Gunvaldson
Any suggestions gratefully received! Forget xCopy - when it fails, it has no restart capabilities. Robocopy from the Windows Resource Kit (free download) has a much superior method of cloning folders - using its "Mirror" "/MIR" syntax, for example... Hth, John C. Gunvaldson www.fox-net

RE: Fox printing colored cells on color printer

2007-10-30 Thread John Gunvaldson
Hi Whil, The report is just spitting out a custom number of fields. Nothing to do with colors. Although, of course, that's not the way the user sees it, and, being the user, they're right. A number of the report object support color backgrounds, aside from the fonts and text itself, I u

RE: [Fwd: Urgent Nee -VB/FoxPro Programmer @Falls Church, VA]

2007-10-18 Thread John Gunvaldson
OMG - Can you think of a more depressing job? That is s true, what a depressing state of affairs... John ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

RE: Updated SP2 now on line

2007-10-18 Thread John Gunvaldson
Gang, I see the updated SP2 with the splash screen fix is now available. I installed the new VFP9 SP2 (on top of the old update - as there is no un-install) - and the splash screen is the same? Was there some other step necessary to get an updated splash screen - not that it matters all

RE: VFP9 SP@ - Splash Image

2007-10-12 Thread John Gunvaldson
Or maybe they do: http://akselsoft.blogspot.com/2007/10/someone-forgot-vfp-splash-screen.h tml Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com Aha, so I don't need glasses . That's it - pretty sloppy... Cheers, John ___ Post

VFP9 SP@ - Splash Image

2007-10-12 Thread John Gunvaldson
There is something on the SP2 splash image, that only briefly is visible - anybody capture that? Something on the bottom right that looks like a blob of orange ink? Maybe I need glasses . John C. Gunvaldson www.fox-net.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipar

RE: Systray class

2007-10-03 Thread John Gunvaldson
"... Just curious as to the real world applications that some of you are using this class for in your apps? ..." I have a production process (actually 3 similar ones) that uses the Systray icon to either "hide" or "display" the (management) console for an application which runs every evening (most

RE: alternative to SYS(2014)

2007-08-30 Thread John Gunvaldson
? DisplayPath() John C. Gunvaldson San Diego, CA www.fox-net.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Sear

RE: FPW 2.6 Hangs New Dell XP computer - Solved

2007-08-17 Thread John Gunvaldson
I had to update the c:\i386\ntvdm.exe file first then update the \windows\system32 That's cool - glad you found a way - now what was the definition of a "root kit virus" again - something that replaces a system file with another?? John

RE: FPW 2.6 Hangs New Dell XP computer

2007-08-17 Thread John Gunvaldson
>>> Didn't that lockup the application on startup? <<< "... Run FoxPro for Windows, or a FoxPro for Windows run-time application, on a computer that has a 333MHz (or faster) processor. On some computers, the error occurs at startup each time, while on others, the program might load without error

RE: FPW 2.6 Hangs New Dell XP computer

2007-08-17 Thread John Gunvaldson
Are you sure it's not the fast processor issue? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240982 "PATCH_26.exe is a self-extracting executable file that updates the FoxPro for Windows version 2.6a development environment and run time to stop startup errors that are raised on computers that operate at clock

RE: GDIPlusX library

2007-08-15 Thread John Gunvaldson
Thanks Richard, I am creating a big VFP-9/VPME-9 project around this library - it's already (previous alpha ver.) solved a number of issues working with multi-image TIF files ... This is very good news! John C. Gunvaldson www.fox-net.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

RE: VFP / SQL Server Configuration

2007-07-19 Thread John Gunvaldson
Any suggestions on where to look for those items killing performance? Pretty much one of (my) first steps (case like this). DBCC CHECKDB ('database_name') GO Does this produce any information on the state/problems/index issues in the database? Cheers John C. Gunvaldson www.fox-net.co

RE: FoxDataObjects - Comments?

2007-06-08 Thread John Gunvaldson
>From just a quick look - it seems all of the class support, and meta data (data dictionary) support that this application provides - are built into several of the fox frameworks? I am not sure of all of the others, but (after 14 years ) I am quite good with Visual ProMatrix - (VPME has another b

RE: VFP Training

2007-05-10 Thread John Gunvaldson
Here's a site that has some great screencasts on learning VFP: http://www.learnvisualfoxpro.com/FreeVideos.aspx -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Hey, Now that is a great resource. Thanks Kevin! (also Michael and John Harvey for their ideas)... Regards, John C. Gunvaldson San Diego, CA

VFP Training

2007-05-10 Thread John Gunvaldson
Just curious, I am preparing to teach about 5 SQL developers VFP 9 - and attempt to get their 'core competency' with the product up to a point that they can assist in supporting a number of legacy systems, both VFP and FoxPro DOS (there's only one of me - and many systems)... Are there any

RE: [NF] Getting jump started - techniques...

2007-04-24 Thread John Gunvaldson
> > What do you guys do? > > Whil > I usually start by breaking something that previously worked fine - and would have been fine, if I didn't just browse it's code and decide that here is a good place to start... I just got back to a bunch of gets and sets in a class. I introduced a nasty lit

RE: [NF] Anybody using SSIS under MSQL 2005?

2007-03-30 Thread John Gunvaldson
Subject: [NF] Anybody using SSIS under MSQL 2005? If so, what do you think about it? I have been for years creating a number of DTS packages under SQL 2000 (at the day job). For the last 6 months or so, I have been re-writing the logic from these DTS packages into SSIS SQL 2005 (now SP2)

RE: [NF] What do you buy...

2007-03-26 Thread John Gunvaldson
An old laptop with Pacman, asteroids, Repton, Space Invaders, Tetris, etc? Dig-Dug - took all my quarters for years... John ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free v

RE: Select isnull question

2007-03-07 Thread John Gunvaldson
That is syntax (mostly) for T-SQL ISNULL() - that is not syntax for VFP ISNULL() VFP only takes one argument for isnull() John C. Gunvaldson www.fox-net.com *== There must be a simple answer that I'm not getting. When I run this I get a "too many arguments" error. CREATE SQL VIEW RB ; AS SELE

RE: Report generation/preview slowness on fastest machine!

2007-03-01 Thread John Gunvaldson
Ideas as to what might be causing the slowness on the bleeding edge laptop? Compare the Config.nt on both machines? Also, the path may be much narrower on the fast machine, and the search path much wider on the new machine. Also, possibly old machine had 7200 rpm drives, and new machine

RE: [NF] Free VMWare converter.

2007-01-30 Thread John Gunvaldson
Can I borrow that machine sometime? It must dim the lights in your town when you power-up that pup! I am fortunate enough that we have several to work with (along with a lot of DL 385s), I'll see about sharing one of them ... John ___ Post

RE: [NF] Free VMWare converter.

2007-01-30 Thread John Gunvaldson
Are you running multiple VM's simultaneously? Yes, that is the nature of the server, to host a number of clients that are always all running at the same time. They share CPU, Memory and Disk IO as needed - or can be setup to be very stingy about what they share. I usually have a generic

RE: [NF] Free VMWare converter.

2007-01-30 Thread John Gunvaldson
Can someone explain to me how VM's can be moved between different physical machines ... VMWare abstracts out the CPU, video, networking (never needed audio). This means that the ESX and GSX server versions use a layer of services between the OS and the Virtual clients to "abstract" the s

Read / Write Binary TIFF Image

2006-12-19 Thread John Gunvaldson
I know I can do this in Python or .NET, but I need to do this in Visual FoxPro 9. Does anyone have an example that can show the proper setup / way to open a binary file (like a TIFF file) - jump to a specific address - and conduct a reverse ones compliment on the bytes in a specific range of addr

RE: [NF] Getting XP workstation to access the network/file server

2006-12-12 Thread John Gunvaldson
... Read up on joining a domain in XP It's really a few second job and a reboot (of course). Before you nuke the XP, go ahead and add it to the "MyBichinDomain" and check it out - it's just a few steps outlined below... Main thing, make sure you know Admin name and password on "My

Re: [NF] Getting XP workstation to access the network/file server

2006-12-12 Thread John Gunvaldson
If "Client for Microsoft Networks" was not on display already (just unchecked) - that would be strange. Non the less, if you also hit the install - install a client - add client - and "Client for Microsoft Networks" was not an option already in the display? Then yes, you would need a disk to load

RE: [NF] Getting XP workstation to access the network/file server

2006-12-12 Thread John Gunvaldson
My .02 I believe this is a browsing service issue. Windows, on TCPIP only - can only resolve windows boxes (other computers on the network) via DNS and/or Host/LM file entries (sometimes hard coded, sometimes returned via DHCP)... You need to install "Client for Microsoft Networks" to full

Parse FullPath() UNC

2006-10-25 Thread John Gunvaldson
Anyone have a handy dandy parse routine for contents of string containing fullpath of a filename Remove folders from example: \\server\share\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\filename.ext Or Remove folders from example: C:\folder1\folder2\folder3\folder4\filename.ext *--* What I would like to r

RE: [NF] Substituting one technology for another

2006-08-23 Thread John Gunvaldson
"That's what the beer was for." Whil Now what's with that? Milwaukee woman are the most beautiful in the world! (( my wife is from Milwaukee - and reads my email occasionally )) John C. Gunvaldson San Diego, CA ___ Post Messages to: ProFo

RE: UI/BizObj references question

2006-08-09 Thread John Gunvaldson
this.enabled = thisform.oBizobj.lSuperUser ...or... this.enabled = thisform.lSuperUser (whereby lSuperUser property was retrieving and set from call to BO) My opinion would be this is a case where there is a published interface to the oBizobj that returns the status of this user - and

RE: Screen scraping from VFP

2006-07-26 Thread John Gunvaldson
This was not too long ago, Andy posted good code here, search on the following "RE: VFP8: Screen Scrape" in the ProFox archives... Cheers, John C. Gunvaldson San Diego, CA www.fox-net.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Mai