RE: Welcome to Fabulous Visual Studio .NET postcard

If they're bottom feeding on old FoxPro projects it makes me wonder why they haven't been able to find any new .NET projects? What does that tell you? Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/lis

Re: [NF] Python: Any advantage to ActivateState IDE/Editor?

Ted, > Or go to the far more civilized wiki and read the collective wisdom: > http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments Perfect! BTW: What direction are you moving in - Python, PHP, Ruby, other, all? Here's where I'm at in my "evolution" ... I'm loving PHP - it feels prett

RE: [NF] Python: Any advantage to ActivateState IDE/Editor?

Dave and Ed, Thanks for your feedback! Note to self: ... too many damn choices ;) Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman

Re: [ADMIN] Changes to Postings

Ed, > I've added a link to the bottom of each message that will bring up the > message in the list archives. The advantage is that if you've deleted prior > messages in the thread and want to catch up, you're just a click away from > the 'View Entire Thread' option ... Great feature! Thanks fo

Re: [NF] Hosting - The Adventure Begins, again. (Sorry, Remo)

Whil, > LunarPages.com I'm a huge fan! Check out their online forums - lots of helpful users and a great archive of solutions. Spend a few hours browsing the archives and you'll learn a lot. Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscriptio

RE: Multithreading - what is the latest

Nick, > The task at hand is a Multithreaded HTTP Webserver written entirely in Fox. > The idea being that each Virtual Directory would have it's own executable > (maybe multiple) to marshall the traffic for it's own requests to the Winsock > layer. That way if the owner of one particular Virtu

RE: [NF] antivirus scanner

http://www.avast.com/ Malcolm ___ 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 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated

Re: Looking for a French Translator UDF for Check Printing

Tim, Here's some PHP code for doing the same http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2448.html QUOTE: This class can spell a number returning its textual representation. It can spell integer and decimal amount values. It supports spelling ammounts in multiple idioms: English, Spanish, French, It

Re: Data Model Catalog, was [NF] MySQL IFNULL()

Mike, Another ditto! Thanks for that very interesting link, Malcolm ___ 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 **

Re: Adobe Acrobat PDF Edit / Report Engine behavior

Chester, SET REPORTENGINE TO 90 renders your report thru GDIPLUS whose output (by default?) looks like an image to Acrobat. SET REPORTBEHAVIOR TO 80 (and earlier) renders report thru GDI whose output Acrobat can recognize as text. If you need revisable form PDF output, consider XFRX. Malcolm

Re: Report generation/preview slowness on fastest machine!

Derek, > Process Explorer does not yet replace filemon or regmon ... Thanks for pointing out that distinction. I agree with your comment. Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profo

Re: VFP9 systray character

> There's no native win32 support for text here. You'll need an "owner > draw" compatible systray tool for that(unlikely). Optionally(and > probably easier), you'll need something that can draw text into a > bitmap at the appropriate size and then save as an icon file to pass > to your systray clas

RE: [NF] Delphi for PHP

John, > NuSphere: > http://www.nusphere.com/download.php.ide.htm Thanks for the link to the NuSphere PHP IDE. I'm curious about the Delphi specific product because I'm interested in their VCL approach to componentizing PHP code. Malcolm ___ Post Mess

Re: FPD2.6 with Vista

Ken, Is there a version of TameDOS available for Vista? Might be worth looking into. Another alternative: a free VMware virtual machine running an older OS? Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mai

Re: FYI - I/O error in Foxpro 2.6a

Michael, > recompile FPW 2.6a on their system I was receiving the infamous I/O error > caused by there not being a CD in the CD-ROM Drive. I had the same problem many years ago. I think(?) the solution was to make sure you compile your FPW 2.6a code from drive C: If you compile from a different

Re: [NF] Mount an ISO CD image as a virtual CD/DVD drive?

Ted, > Wikipedia recommends the DiskMount utility available from VMWare > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback_mount Thank you! Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

RE: [NF] Mount an ISO CD image as a virtual CD/DVD drive?

> I use Alcohol 120% from www.alcohol-soft.com $39 Thanks Lou! Malcolm ___ 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

Re: [NF] Mount an ISO CD image as a virtual CD/DVD drive?

Here's another interesting free utility: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com

RE: [NF] Where to find license keys for Empower program

Thanks to all of you who replied. With your help and the help of MS phone and chat support I was finally able to find my license keys for Empower downloads. MS personal support was good/patient - but the "user/customer experience" to find such a simple piece of information was *TERRIBLE*. To follo

RE: Program to scrape text from web page

Michael and others, There's a new version of wwIPstuff available at www.west-wind.com. I believe this is a major upgrade so there's a cost to upgrade. Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/li

Re: Recent versions of Abri worth it?

Whil, > "We don't want to do that. You fix your software instead." I had a similar client (perhaps the same? name withheld to protect the guilty). My solution - and good advice in the broadest sense of the word ... flush often. In VFP this translates as: FLUSH FORCE Malcolm __

Re: call a function in a program

Alan, > If it *does* return something, I suppose you could pass another > variable by reference an have it update that. > > cReturn = "" > DO newfunction IN temp.prg WTIH "hi", mynum, @cReturn No need for the @cReturn as procedures automatically pass parms by reference unless you've changed the

Re: [NF] Awstats

John, > A second vote for statcounter. If you're looking for COOL, check out www.haveamint.com. WOW! Malcolm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http

Re: [NF] More VM questions

Ted, >> possible to convert an existing workstation/server setup >> to a VM? > VMWare offers a free converter on their web site. > >> Pre-configured Linux VM's? > http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/cat/45 Thank you very much! Malcolm _

RE: [NF] Front Page on Unix

James, > You have a point regards being dissatisfied, we've never been totally happy We're using www.lunarpages.com as are several others on this list. I've been extremely pleased with the quality of LunarPage's service (uptime, performance, customer service, price, features, and user forums). Hi

RE: Buffer overruns & stuff

Lew, Have a loader app (could be a batch file) that runs your main app in a loop and only exits when a certain file is present locally. Sample batch file (untested): @echo off :start myapp.exe if not exist myapp.quit goto start del myapp.quit Have your main app exit every X minutes so it can

RE: Buffer overruns & stuff

Lew, I have several VFP applications that have been running non-stop for years. Every time a new release of VFP comes out, I've recompiled and re-installed without problem. One suggestion: You might try sprinkling some ... strtofile( "timestamp, global counter and some diagnostics or code locati

RE: [NF] Free VMWare converter.

John, Thanks for sharing your VM experience. Are you running multiple VM's simultaneously? What's your subjective estimate for how much slower a single VM is vs. the same setup running natively? What do you decide to run natively and what do you run in VM's? Malcolm _

Re: [NF] Extending credit to clients?

Ted, Can your client pay you by credit card? Plastic is EASY to get. In the past, I have paid contractors by credit card in a cash flow crunch. I would have no problems expecting the same treatment from my clients. An alternative to credit cards might be to lease them your services (or the softwar

Re: Protect VFP source code

Michael, > Does checking the "Encrypted" checkbox on the Project/Project Info > screen/Project tab just give the slightest level of source code protection > beyond nothing? In the real world: No. > Never really sure of what that accomplished? That's an easy one ... it prevents you from being

RE: how to show all code for a form?

Jeff, I'm not by a workstation with VFP, but under the Tools menu is a Class Browser(?) about 3 or 4 positions down that was written by Ken Levy. You can load a form into this tool (you can load forms even though it looks like you can only work with classes), click on this tool's View Code button,