Thursday, October 8, 2009 Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a SWFox Doubleheader:
"HTML for the Desktop" by Mike Feltman AND "Full Text Search using Lucene.NET" by Paul Mrozowski 1) "HTML for the Desktop" - Mike Feltman VFP is so powerful as a front-end development tool that it's extremely rare to find user interface items that VFP can't handle. Tools such as FoxCharts and the themed controls on VFPx are just a few of many testaments to VFP developers ability to create compelling interfaces. That being said, there are a number of interface items that can be created more easily with HTML and the Internet is literally loaded with HTML examples that are ready for you to "borrow" and VFP is perfectly capable of displaying those items. There are many creative ways that HTML can be used in desktop applications that are often overlooked. You will learn: * Places where you can easily make use of HTML to create interfaces that require considerably more work when using native VFP controls * How to borrow HTML components to create compelling interfaces in VFP * How to use HTML for mail merge operations in order to minimize automation code and enable WYSWIG editing from within your applications 2) "Full Text Search using Lucene.NET" - Jody Meyer VFP includes a number of built-in functions that make it easy to manipulate text and search data in tables. For most purposes, these native functions work great. One place where they don't is full text searches - for example, searching memo fields. As the amount of data increases the search time becomes unacceptable. Fortunately, there is an open source Java project called Lucene which can do fast full text search. We actually use a .NET port of this project from within VFP to take advantage of its searching capabilities. If you need to add full text search to your VFP app (or want to speed it up), or be able to search common file formats such as PDF, DOC, XLS, and PPT, this is the session for you. You will learn: * How to use Lucene.NET from within VFP * How to index and search memo files for text * How to search common document files such as PDF, DOC, XLS from within VFP - Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks. - Anything else people want to talk about. Holiday Inn Express - Southfield 25100 Northwestern HWY Southfield, MI 48075 Small Meeting Room on 1st Floor Hope to see you there. More DAFUG details at http://www.dafug.org Agenda: 6:00 - 8:00 Presentation 8:00 - ? Food Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers: October 8, 2009 - "HTML for the Desktop" - Mike Feltman (Southwest Fox Rehearsal) AND Full Text Search using Lucene.NET - Paul Mrozowski (Southwest Fox Rehearsal) November 19, 2009 - "Enhancing the Visual FoxPro IDE with VFPX Tools" - Rick Schummer December 10, 2009 - TBD January 2010 - TBD February 2010 - TBD March 2010 - TBD April 2010 - TBD May 2010 - TBD June 2010 - TBD July 2010 - No Meeting (maybe a baseball game??) August 2010 - TBD September 2010 - TBD DAFUG meets on the second or third Thursday of the month (except for July). Admission to DAFUG meetings will be granted free to anyone for 1 (one) meeting. After that you must either join the group (at the low cost of $30 a year, $15 for a half year) or you will be asked to pay $5 per meeting you attend. The $5 will grant you admission but no other rights or privileges of membership. Rick Schummer, Secretary for DAFUG _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/02da01ca4784$ea341f20$be9c5d...@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.
