RE: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-29 Thread Allen Pollard
Can't be that hard, I use it Al -Original Message- Web development didn't need Microsoft to get itself into its current hellishly complicated state. .NET isn't and wasn't any more complex than any other comparable platform like Java. ___ Po

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-29 Thread Alan Bourke
On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, at 05:23 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Aug 25, 2016, at 6:13 PM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com > wrote: > > > > That pretty much sums up lots of the web and early DotNet stuff I > > swear sometimes it seems like these uber-nerds create things to be so > > compl

RE: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-26 Thread Gene Wirchenko
At 16:13 2016-08-25, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: On 2016-08-25 10:52, Dave Crozier wrote: it just seems so damned complicated for a simple result. That pretty much sums up lots of the web and early DotNet stuff I swear sometimes it seems like these uber-nerds creat

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-26 Thread Ed Leafe
On Aug 25, 2016, at 6:13 PM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: > > That pretty much sums up lots of the web and early DotNet stuff I swear > sometimes it seems like these uber-nerds create things to be so complex > simply because they can. That was always the Microsoft way

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-26 Thread Thierry Nivelet
Easy in VFP too: https://github.com/FoxInCloud/FoxInCloud-AB/ do /AB.prg lo = CreateObject('empty') AddProperty(lo, 'toto', 5) AddProperty(lo, 'tata', .F.) AddProperty(lo, 'tutu', 'test') AddProperty(lo, 'titi', CreateObject('empty')) AddProperty(lo.titi, 'toto', 5) AddProperty(lo.titi, 'tata',

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Alan Bourke
On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, at 03:26 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > This isn't tough outside of VFP. Agreed. It's Javascript objects and very often it's consumed by Javascript, in a few lines of code. Also easy in .Net using Json.net and so forth. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm __

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Stephen Russell
This isn't tough outside of VFP. On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:13 PM, < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > On 2016-08-25 10:52, Dave Crozier wrote: > >> it just seems so damned complicated for a simple result. >> > > > That pretty much sums up lots of the web and early DotNet stuff

RE: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2016-08-25 10:52, Dave Crozier wrote: it just seems so damned complicated for a simple result. That pretty much sums up lots of the web and early DotNet stuff I swear sometimes it seems like these uber-nerds create things to be so complex simply because they can. _

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Chris Davis
or Systems Analyst > > > Tel. +1-212-747-9100 > www.GlobeTax.com > > > -Original Message- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave > Crozier > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 10:06 AM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > S

RE: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Kurt Wendt
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 10:06 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API Gentlemen, Just started Geocoding all our customers ... ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/ma

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: > Well, it's a lot better than XML for sending hierarchical info over the > wire. > I do find the curly braces {} get snagged in the ethernet cable a lot less that the pointy arrows <>. {grin} -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http:/

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Alan Bourke
Well, it's a lot better than XML for sending hierarchical info over the wire. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Fernando D. Bozzo
Hi Dave: For the JSON part you have an Open Source project on VFPx: http://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=nfJson Best Regards, Fernando D. Bozzo.- 2016-08-25 16:05 GMT+02:00 Dave Crozier : > Gentlemen, > Just started Geocoding all our customers and interfacing the Google maps > to our V

RE: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Dave Crozier
e Sent: 25 August 2016 15:31 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API > I guess it is going to be a little like the web services that were the > rage some time ago I stayed away from them. Well, it *is* a web service, and web services are increasingly fundame

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Stephen Russell
I am doing this in SharePoint next month as another visual display of data. On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > I guess it is going to be a little like the web services that were the > > rage some time ago I stayed away from them. > > Well, it *is* a web service, and we

Re: VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Alan Bourke
> I guess it is going to be a little like the web services that were the > rage some time ago I stayed away from them. Well, it *is* a web service, and web services are increasingly fundamental to how the web operates. JSON is essentially just objects in Javascript notation so you need some w

VFP Call to Google Geocoding API

2016-08-25 Thread Dave Crozier
Gentlemen, Just started Geocoding all our customers and interfacing the Google maps to our VFP system here and it is going well in that we can now display interactive graphs of customers/prospects for our sales staff and throw the links to the graphs into the reps Google calendars on their phone