Thanks for the update Johan! For everyone's info, I'm doing a session on X# at Southwest Fox. I'll be a FoxPro developer's perspective on this tool. If there's any particular issue you'd like me to test/address, let me know!
Eric On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 7:05 AM Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > Good news looking forward to getting a look at it. > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > > On Tue, 14 May 2019, at 10:58 AM, Johan Nel wrote: > > Hi all X# followers, > > > > Just an update. With respect to VFP, (VFP members and I) have received > > in a private message the ANTLR lexical parser fingerprint for VFP and it > > shows very good progress on VFP syntax support. > > > > Here is the update that was published today on the X# website. > > > > Progress report May 2019 - Created: 12 May 2019 > > > > It's time for a quick update about what we have been doing. Here are > > some things that we have worked on since the last build: > > > > * We have started work on the FoxPro dialect and have also added a WITH > > block for all dialects > > * We have also added support for END keywords for entities that do not > > allow this yet, > > suchas END PROCEDURE,END METHOD,END ACCESS etc. These keywords > > are optional > > * We made several changes to improve the VS integration, such as better > > type lookup for functions > > declaredin namespaces, better supportfor the var keyword, improved > > supportfor Xbase++ dialect etc. > > X# works fine nowwith VS 2019,except that ourproject templates > > are still poorlyvisible on theNew Project dialect. > > Microsoft has now promisedto change thatin oneof the upcoming > > updates. > > * We have made several changes to the runtime. For example dynamic > > class > > creation for the Xbase++ dialect (ClassCreate() etc) > > and for the Xbase++ DataObjectclass. We have also added the > > functions that are partof the ASXMLLibrary from Xbase++ > > (XMLDocOpen() etc). > > * We have also improved several existing functions, such as Round(), > > ExecName() and others. > > * We have made several changes to the macro compiler, to solve some of > > the problems that were reported. > > * We have also added support for macro based aliased expressions and > > ivar access ( (alias)->&varname, expression:&ivarname etc) > > * And last but not least we have worked on the RDD system. Several > > small > > issues were detected and fixed in the Advantage RDD > > and the workon the DBFCDX driver is approaching theend. We > > expectto have a fully working DBFCDX rddany day now. > > > > More news will follow soon. > > > > Johan Nel > > George, South Africa > > FOX member: Friends of XSharp > > X# Website: https://xsharp.info <https://xsharp.info/> > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CAAwxvUnFMN81PMuLcM=XdOFLMBkcHwao_z1tgFGkV+2ETcE+=w...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
