Re: FoxPro, AI & GCode - Oh My...

2025-04-11 Thread Alan Bourke
> Me as an "Old Dog" err.. Fox, I'm still a bit overwhelmed by that AI > stuff... Billion dollar autocomplete ;) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscripti

Re: The FOX Is Back!!!

2025-04-01 Thread Alan Bourke
The Fox never left -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman

Re: Programmer / Analyst position

2025-03-03 Thread Alan Bourke
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025, at 5:14 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote: > Hello there Folks, > > I'm happy to say that I have been offered the position at Pako, and I am > shortly moving up to Cleveland. Great news! -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at)

Re: Programmer / Analyst position

2025-02-10 Thread Alan Bourke
Paging Dr Kurt! -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: VS Code and VFP extensions (RE: Cleaning out a non-working VFP installation on Windows 10)

2025-02-07 Thread Alan Bourke
On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, at 3:02 PM, Jeff Roberts wrote: > I think the late Matt Slay's dynamic forms project is very similar to what > you describe, Alan: https://github.com/mattslay/DynamicForms Thanks I had a vague memory there was something like that. -- Alan Bourke alan

Re: VS Code and VFP extensions (RE: Cleaning out a non-working VFP installation on Windows 10)

2025-02-07 Thread Alan Bourke
and there was a way of defining the UI declaratively, like for example XAML in WPF, then that would be a runner. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.lea

Re: Cleaning out a non-working VFP installation on Windows 10

2025-02-06 Thread Alan Bourke
hat is in visual classes always makes me eventually go back to just using the VFP editor. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/pro

Re: Visual Basic 6 recreated in the browser with the Avalonia UI framework for .NET

2025-01-14 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, at 2:09 PM, Eric Selje wrote: > That's impressive, in the way that playing Doom on an electric toothbrush > is impressive. Doom on a toothbrush? Old hat. All the cool kids play doom in a PDF file. https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf -- Alan Bourke alan

Visual Basic 6 recreated in the browser with the Avalonia UI framework for .NET

2025-01-14 Thread Alan Bourke
Well sorta. https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ Anyone want to take a swing at VFP ? :) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html

Re: Charles Hankey, RIP

2024-11-01 Thread Alan Bourke
RIP Charles. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: VFP Code Conversion Workbench

2024-09-24 Thread Alan Bourke
erface aren't really made of those, though. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: FoxPro Conf Binder

2024-09-19 Thread Alan Bourke
Very cool piece of ancient history. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: Lister program for VFP code

2024-08-29 Thread Alan Bourke
long lines, include line numbers and prompt for the printer. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list

Re: Windows handle of VFP combo box via API

2024-08-21 Thread Alan Bourke
VFP controls are managed by VFP itself with a few exceptions, and don't get a Windows hWnd. https://hackfox.github.io/section4/s4g868.html -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscri

Re: Outlook Automation Help Needed

2024-08-14 Thread Alan Bourke
t, I just don't get it. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/

Re: Outlook Automation Help Needed

2024-08-13 Thread Alan Bourke
s probably the future for this sort of requirement. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this l

Re: [NF] Make Software Simple Again (like the Fox)

2024-08-01 Thread Alan Bourke
There's a lot to be said for all of that - I would shy away from anything UI related in the .NET world because of the insane complexity, and developing anything for the web is even worse. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 31 Jul 2024, at 4:07 PM, MB Sof

Re: OS(3) number result for Windows 11

2024-07-19 Thread Alan Bourke
-version-numbers) and then look at the CurrentBuild value in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion So anything > 22000 is Windows 11, for example. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ P

Re: vfp

2024-07-08 Thread Alan Bourke
Absolutely, although are you actually running anything VFP on the server or do you just have data in a shared folder? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https

Re: Network issue

2024-05-28 Thread Alan Bourke
Windows Update won't have changed anything. They would not break permissions like that. It'll be AV or something. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintena

Re: VFP and SSO

2024-03-27 Thread Alan Bourke
-file or see: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2021/Nov/27/NTLM-Windows-Authentication-Authentication-with-HttpClient -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https

Re: VFPAdvanced - My Problem, My Tests & Some Results

2024-03-07 Thread Alan Bourke
You're very welcome Paul, my invoice is in the mail ;) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: VFPAdvanced - My Problem, My Tests & Some Results

2024-03-06 Thread Alan Bourke
also clears internal buffers for open tables, forcing the tables to be refreshed, which is useful with large tables and in multiuser environments." -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Su

Re: PDF Scraping

2024-01-12 Thread Alan Bourke
Chris This is not easy in general and probably not possible without going outside of VFP. You're probably looking at leveraging Ghostcript somehow to parse the PDF files and dump the text out. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (do

Re: Printer Dialogue

2023-12-21 Thread Alan Bourke
Not following Chris - do you mean GetPrinter() ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: ChdkDsk from VFP

2023-12-04 Thread Alan Bourke
Or Powershell 'repair-volume' https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/repair-volume?view=windowsserver2022-ps -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription M

Re: ChdkDsk from VFP

2023-12-04 Thread Alan Bourke
= objDisk.ChkDsk(.f.) && or .t. to fix errors ? errReturn I believe the return codes etc are as described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/vdswmi/chkdsk-method-in-class-win32-volume -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm __

Re: Log4VFP or Log4Fox

2023-10-05 Thread Alan Bourke
:some text If I needed features like logging to a table, different log levels and so forth I'd use one of the two you mentioned. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Mai

Re: vfp and thor set up on a clean windows 11 machine

2023-08-18 Thread Alan Bourke
just followed the instructions - what error are you getting ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: .csv file imports to VFP

2023-04-16 Thread Alan Bourke
'Append from' has always been bombproof in my experience, as long as what you're giving it is correct. Do those problem rows have any weird non ASCII characters ir anything? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, at 3:35 AM, Joe Yoder wro

Re: Fun with .Net DLLs

2023-04-05 Thread Alan Bourke
up. If you want to debug, set a breakpoint in your class being tested, then right-click on the test in Test Explorer and select 'Debug'. Debugging then will proceed as normal. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Mes

Re: Fun with .Net DLLs

2023-04-04 Thread Alan Bourke
7;ve always had to add an installer project in .NET and just make users install and register the assembly. Don't forget you have to build it as 32-bit to use it from VFP. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: Pro

Re: HTTPS GET using Winsock

2023-04-03 Thread Alan Bourke
Via Winsock specifically ? Why complicate it? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: CDO Email

2023-02-22 Thread Alan Bourke
Apparently you can: .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendtls";) = True -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.c

Re: [NF] Queries re: Python & Such...

2023-02-17 Thread Alan Bourke
es or packages. It's very confusing when you're starting. As a language it's fantastic. Visual Studio Code is free and has excellent built-in Python support, it will install everything you need and make things as easy as possible. Assuming you're in Windows land of course. -

Re: [NF] Queries re: Python & Such...

2023-02-16 Thread Alan Bourke
Kurt There's the official Python forums: https://python-forum.io/forum-8.html Also StackOverflow if you can provide a code sample. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Mainte

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-08 Thread Alan Bourke
> If ChatGPT could understand Python, it should not be too hard for it to It doesn't *understand* anything, it's monkeys on typewriters. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-08 Thread Alan Bourke
Does it have any opinions on the lovely Rachel Riley ? ;) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-06 Thread Alan Bourke
It will churn out something that looks vaguely passable, but it is all smoke and mirrors. There is no 'I' involved. It's a fancy search engine. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sat, 4 Feb 2023, at 3:08 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote: > I am just wondering whe

Re: Small Report/Label Designs

2023-01-15 Thread Alan Bourke
Well, with a Zebra I would forget the VFP report designer and just send it ZPL commands. And use this to to the design. http://labelary.com/viewer.html -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sun, 15 Jan 2023, at 10:56 AM, Chris Davis wrote: > Something similar to a Ze

Re: Small Report/Label Designs

2023-01-13 Thread Alan Bourke
What label printer are you printing them on ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: Equation solving from VFP

2022-12-14 Thread Alan Bourke
ot;B4").GoalSeek Goal:=-900, ChangingCell:=Range("B3") -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version

Re: [NF] Right-click Open with options

2022-11-13 Thread Alan Bourke
I'd try copying the EXE to pspadadmin.exe and set a shortcut to that accordingly -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sat, 12 Nov 2022, at 3:10 PM, Paul Newton wrote: > Hi > > In my setup I have PSPad.EXE and PSPad (Admin).EXE.  The latter is > simply a c

Re: dreaming of vfp and vscode integration

2022-10-25 Thread Alan Bourke
highlighting plugin for VS Code, it worked well enough for individual files. However it didn't help with code in visual elements like form classes and that's the show-stopper with trying to use external editors with VFP. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmai

Anyone with C# (and obviously VFP) chops looking for a 99% remote gig ?

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Bourke
small team of 5 to accelerate this project forward." UK based, he says 99% remote working, £60k - £70k -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body

Re: fox.wikis.com

2022-09-29 Thread Alan Bourke
Ugh, no need for this sort of thing. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

fox.wikis.com

2022-09-29 Thread Alan Bourke
What's going on there then? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leaf

Re: ChilkatVFP 1.0 Released

2022-09-21 Thread Alan Bourke
Thanks Bill will come in very useful -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: Creating a hyperlink on a PDF via XFRX.

2022-08-26 Thread Alan Bourke
Turns out it's a real pain in the ass to do this on a VFP report layout directly. So I knocked up a .NET COM-visible DLL which uses a third party library to place the relevant hyperlink onto an already-created PDF file. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (do

Re: Creating a hyperlink on a PDF via XFRX.

2022-08-23 Thread Alan Bourke
Thanks. I will look into those options. I also considered having a placeholder URL and then postprocessing the PDF file as hyperlinks seem to be plain text inside them. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to

Creating a hyperlink on a PDF via XFRX.

2022-08-23 Thread Alan Bourke
A HREF=#+mytable.myfield #UR A HREF=mytable.myfield #UR A HREF=eval(mytable.myfield) Has anyone ever done this ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _

Re: Pictures in a table

2022-08-16 Thread Alan Bourke
IMO don't ever store binary objects in a relational database table. Store a relative path and filename from a root disk location. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Mainte

Re: Need Help - Foxpro & Chilkat & Rest API

2022-08-02 Thread Alan Bourke
I'd sell it back to Chilkat. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leaf

Re: Another GDIPlusX question

2022-07-19 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, at 1:50 PM, Eric Selje wrote: > "RubberDucking" > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging Haha, excellent. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@lea

Re: Another GDIPlusX question

2022-07-18 Thread Alan Bourke
On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, at 11:49 PM, Paul Newton wrote: > Isn't it marvellous how simply posting a question to this esteemed list > somehow kicks ones brain into gear ... albeit only after posting I call it the Stackoverflow effect. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastma

Re: GDIPlusX GetHue() and GetBrightness()

2022-07-01 Thread Alan Bourke
Paul The .NET syntax is very similar: https://dotnetfiddle.net/b2uIkS However it returns the lightness value in a range of 0 .. 1 so you have to multiply by 100 to express in a % which seems to be how everyone else does it. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: GDIPlusX GetHue() and GetBrightness()

2022-07-01 Thread Alan Bourke
I don't think its implementation of these methods is correct Paul, comparing with what .NET would return. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leaf

Re: GDIPlusX GetHue() and GetBrightness()

2022-06-30 Thread Alan Bourke
Try Cast(loColor.GetHue() as Integer) or Cast(loColor.GetHue() as Numeric(12, 2)) ... -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: GDIPlus - Resize

2022-06-27 Thread Alan Bourke
Also https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/wiaaut/-wiaaut-startpage -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman

Re: GDIPlus - Resize

2022-06-27 Thread Alan Bourke
Paul Take a look at the Windows Image Acquisition API, the link below is a method that I use to resize images from a signature pad. https://gist.github.com/AlanPBourke/b4ad122636978245a678a65155ba51e7 -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: [NF] Monitor woes

2022-06-21 Thread Alan Bourke
VGA only. Well, you can get DVI or HDMI to VGA converters but this is no different than the first monitor, a VGA connection is a D-SUB type connection. The old Atari joystick style! -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post

Re: [NF] Monitor woes

2022-06-21 Thread Alan Bourke
What model number is the second one Paul? I find it kind of odd that a modern flat panel capable of full HD would only have an analogue input. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: IE's death

2022-06-17 Thread Alan Bourke
I think all that happened yesterday is that IE won't get any more updates or patches and any attempt to launch it via the shortcut will shove you towards Edge instead. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messag

Re: Legacy app using wwipstuff.dll fails sending Office365 email

2022-06-16 Thread Alan Bourke
For anything we have that sends through using SMTP, if a customer wants to send through a Microsoft mail server they definitely have to set up a relay as per the document Richard linked to. Which is why I get them to use Amazon SES instead if possible. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at

Re: [NF] VGA/DVI to HDMI

2022-06-15 Thread Alan Bourke
Or strictly speaking, HDMI (laptop) to DVI (monitor) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list

Re: [NF] VGA/DVI to HDMI

2022-06-15 Thread Alan Bourke
Hi Paul HDMI-DVI all day long, VGA is analogue which is crap in this day and age. You'll get a better, more stable image and Windows will be able to control it better. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messag

Re: Problem setting ActiveX control property (Folderview and Fileview controls)

2022-06-03 Thread Alan Bourke
Paul The control might just be really particular about the parameter being a long integer. I have seen discussion of this sort of problem where the person ended up writing a VB6 wrapper and calling that from VFP instead. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: fox wiki down for anyone else?

2022-05-30 Thread Alan Bourke
Yes 503 here. Steven Black is the hombre responsible IIRC -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: [NF] MHTML woes

2022-05-28 Thread Alan Bourke
Paul You could try a browser extension like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodijhokgodhhofbcjdecpffjipkle?hl=en -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: VFP 9: Invalid Path or File Name

2022-05-16 Thread Alan Bourke
and it fails also? Is there a hidden ARINVT01.TXT in the output location ? Try erase "output\arinvt01.txt" copy to yada yada -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Ma

Re: VFP 9: Invalid Path or File Name

2022-05-13 Thread Alan Bourke
Try wrapping the filename in quotes. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: [NF] Those were the days ... ISP charges

2022-04-25 Thread Alan Bourke
mid 1990s it was about £10 a month with phone call charges on top. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of t

Re: VRunFox

2022-04-11 Thread Alan Bourke
Kurt > If you Create an EXE - all you then need to do is > pass along the DLL files with your project EXE - and then the EXE should > run... For sure, but this is to be able to run full VFP, get the Command Window and all that, in a portable fashion. -- Alan Bourke alanpb

Re: VRunFox

2022-04-08 Thread Alan Bourke
If you just want something that you can use onsite without actually installing VFP, just take the following files from your VFP\Windows folders, zip them, then just unzip them in a folder on whatever machine and run the EXE. This is better than vrunfox because it's the full enchilada. vfp9.exe

Re: 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro

2022-04-07 Thread Alan Bourke
Normally I'd harass people on Twitter but Whil doesn't appear to have been on that since 2019. Maybe call the number on the website ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Su

Re: [NF] Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be Evil"?

2022-04-06 Thread Alan Bourke
I use Firefox exclusively and Vivaldi on phone. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: Determine if a File is Open

2022-03-29 Thread Alan Bourke
heir temp folder and don't worry about erasing it. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, at 4:33 PM, Carl Lindner wrote: > I extracted "d:\test_dir\test.pdf". Then used ShellExecute to open it. The > user reads the pdf and later I want

Re: [NF] Facets Database???

2022-03-06 Thread Alan Bourke
It's a good name for a database though. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: Converting RTF to HTML

2022-03-03 Thread Alan Bourke
Very handy that. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman

Re: Back from the Dead & MS PowerApps...

2022-02-28 Thread Alan Bourke
afterthought as it seems to be with every tool that isn't Visual FoxPro ;) Take a look at April Dunnam's excellent Youtube tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H4ljf4FuTE -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post

Re: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

2022-02-22 Thread Alan Bourke
Great, will try that! Danke. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com

Re: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

2022-02-22 Thread Alan Bourke
Hmm I might suggest that to them thanks -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, at 12:12 PM, j...@johnweller.co.uk wrote: > I don't know if this will help but if you open a PDF in Word it will > automatically convert it to a Word document - even

Re: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

2022-02-22 Thread Alan Bourke
No worries thanks -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, at 12:07 PM, paul.newton.h...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Alan ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mail

Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

2022-02-22 Thread Alan Bourke
affect it. Replicating this process with the report layouts in question on my PC works fine. Has anyone ever come across this ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept

Re: Problem installing Thor

2022-02-17 Thread Alan Bourke
users\xx\dev\vfpdev\thor\thor.app" HTH -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail

Re: VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - SOLVED

2022-02-15 Thread Alan Bourke
ings, or to write its settings to the registry." -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https:

Re: Transparent commandbuttons in Windows 11

2022-02-01 Thread Alan Bourke
https://iili.io/lPsOcg.md.png -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com

Re: [NF] Help With VB.Net

2022-01-10 Thread Alan Bourke
.CancelEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.Validating Dim isValid As Boolean isValid = True ' Check what you need to check here. If isValid = False Then e.Cancel = True End If End Sub -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On M

Re: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

2022-01-09 Thread Alan Bourke
> I have everything working as expected for SCX, VCX, MNX, FRX and LBX. I am > still to address DBF, DBC, PRG and, perhaps, QPR What have Queen's Park Rangers got to do with it :) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _

Re: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

2022-01-09 Thread Alan Bourke
Paul Same registry values, same expected action on double clicking here. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

Re: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

2022-01-08 Thread Alan Bourke
value is a REG_SZ equal to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\vfp9.exe" -SHELLOPEN "%1" HTH -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: ht

Life in the old dog\cat yet*

2022-01-06 Thread Alan Bourke
t firmware. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintena

Re: [NF] My laptop performance is soooo bad in ANY browser

2022-01-05 Thread Alan Bourke
Start Task Manager, Performance tab, then Resource Monitor option at bottom. Flick between the tabs there and see what process is utilising CPU and\or Disk. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: sftp for vfp6?

2021-12-02 Thread Alan Bourke
brary -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profo

Re: looking docs or code for reading and exporting vfp menus that I can understand

2021-11-08 Thread Alan Bourke
If you run the built-in report below it will show you how the MNX file is structured: Modify Report (Home() + "Tools\Filespec\60mnx.frx") ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox O

Re: [NF] Windows 10 32 bit on current Hardware

2021-11-04 Thread Alan Bourke
They have stopped releasing 32 bit OEM builds as of Windows 10 2004. So all new machines from OEMs are 64 bit, as are all OEM installers. It could be that. I bet an off the shelf 32 bit consumer SKU would work. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, at 2

Re: Matt Slay

2021-10-12 Thread Alan Bourke
That's terrible news, he was a real expert and a credit to the community. RIP -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/prof

Re: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

2021-09-22 Thread Alan Bourke
Don't enable SMB1 support. You might as well leave your front door open when you leave the house. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/ma

Re: VFP equivalent of SQL Server 'script table'

2021-09-03 Thread Alan Bourke
Thanks folks. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

VFP equivalent of SQL Server 'script table'

2021-09-02 Thread Alan Bourke
abase than adding binary DBF files etc. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leaf

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