MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Kurt
Hey Folks, I've made a LOT of progress on this Utility I've been working on - to automate conversion of system PRG code to Screens/Forms. However, I've run into a complication that's a bit of a stumper. Just to Prefix the explanation of the problem. To do the Screen Hacking - I create

Re: MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Fred Taylor
Leave the OBJCODE field blank and issue a COMPILE FORM yourformname command to build it from your METHOD code. Fred On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Kurt k...@isssusa.com wrote: Hey Folks, I've made a LOT of progress on this Utility I've been working on - to automate conversion of system

RE: MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Dave Crozier
Kurt, Off the top of my head, isn't the memo field simply compiled code. Removing it should force a recompilation and apropriate re-constitution of the correct code in the form you are modifying. VFP checks to see that the compiled code matches the source code but sometimes gets it wrong,

RE: MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Kurt
Hey Fred - I understand what you mean - and that DOES Make sense. I shall try it now... -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:29 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: MORE Screen

RE: MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Kurt
Hey Dave - thanks for your feedback - sounds similar to Fred's. I'm going to attempt to try it and see if that solves the problem. -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 10:30 AM To:

Re: MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Alan Bourke
That's the 'p-code' for your compiled methods. You could save those memo contents as a .FXP, then reverse-engineer them back into a PRG with ReFox, for example. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

RE: MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Kurt
Wow Alan - that sounds like even More Fun! I think I just read something about that on the Web when searching for a solution to this problem. But, alas - I wasn't finding the right answers on the Web - but, got the Perfect help from Fred Dave here! It worked. Did the Compile command - and now all

RE: MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Kurt
Thanks Christof - I already got it resolved by suggestions from others - and I already implemented Blanking of Objcode - besides doing the Compile. -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt Sent: Monday, February 04,

RE: MORE Screen Hacking a Query...

2013-02-04 Thread Kurt
Its quite true about this Group! Sometimes - if I know the answer to someone's question - I will try to respond Quickly - to beat others to the punchline... :-) -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt Sent: Monday,

Re: Releasing a form from a docked toolbar.

2013-02-04 Thread Fred Taylor
Use _SCREEN.ActiveForm, not _VFP. Fred On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Chris Davis chr...@actongate.co.uk wrote: Hi All, I have a Top Level Form with two toolbars, which have been docked in code in the activate event. When clicking buttons on these toolbars it fires events on the form.

RE: Releasing a form from a docked toolbar.

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Davis
Thanks Fred, tried that but still the same. -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: 04 February 2013 17:46 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Releasing a form from a docked toolbar. Use _SCREEN.ActiveForm, not _VFP.

RE: Releasing a form from a docked toolbar.

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Davis
Ah! I will give this a go. -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt Sent: 04 February 2013 17:47 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Releasing a form from a docked toolbar. Why am I not able to put thisform.release

RE: Releasing a form from a docked toolbar.

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Davis
Thank's Christof works a treat! -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt Sent: 04 February 2013 17:47 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Releasing a form from a docked toolbar. Why am I not able to put

Guineu project

2013-02-04 Thread Bill Arnold
Hi Christof, Would you mind talking a bit about your Guineu project? How it is going? Are you committed to it? Any links to information on the project? A quick search found this very interesting article, but it's dated back in 2007. http://www.mail-archive.com/profox@leafe.com/msg38551.html

Re: [NF] BIG Dragon Sculpture - SHORT Video Online...

2013-02-04 Thread Nicholas Geti
I can see what you are trying to accomplish and you did cut down on the length. I hate being a nudge. But you lost me. Who are you aiming this video at? Is this is how-to video? Are you training a programmer or an artist? Are you demonstrating the 3D printer? You spent a third of the video

Re: [NF] perplexing Zip/Excel problem

2013-02-04 Thread Mike Copeland
Just wonderingthe folks that have this problem, are they using the same OS? Same OS level? Mike Original Message Subject: [NF] perplexing Zip/Excel problem From: M Jarvis brewda...@gmail.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 2/4/2013 1:16 PM I am having a very perplexing

Re: [NF] perplexing Zip/Excel problem

2013-02-04 Thread M Jarvis
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: Just wonderingthe folks that have this problem, are they using the same OS? Same OS level? Mike Sorry - forgot to mention XP SP 3... one user is next to me here in the IT dept and she's 100% patched and such and has

RE: [NF] perplexing Zip/Excel problem

2013-02-04 Thread Tracy Pearson
M Jarvis wrote on 2013-02-04: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: Just wonderingthe folks that have this problem, are they using the same OS? Same OS level? Mike Sorry - forgot to mention XP SP 3... one user is next to me here in the IT

Re: [NF] perplexing Zip/Excel problem

2013-02-04 Thread Ted Roche
*Is your internet server an Apache server?* * * *Linux using 'magic' to look at the files contents and determines that an XLSX file is, in fact, a ZIP file. (It is!)* * * *Internet Explorer gets the MIME content from the Apache server telling it that an XLSX file is a ZIP file and, in its wisdom,

Re: [NF] perplexing Zip/Excel problem

2013-02-04 Thread Dan Covill
On 02/04/13 11:16 AM, M Jarvis wrote: I am having a very perplexing problem opening an XLSX spreadsheet... Actually I can open it fine, it's a couple of users that are having the problem. I believe the problem is that IE7 can't handle an .xlsx file. The .xlsx is only from Excel 2010, and is

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) foxh...@information-architecture.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote: Gee, I found Eclipse to be incredibly daunting, too. Too much so for me to bother with. I thought it was just another

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Paul McNett
On 2/4/13 12:15 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote: Eclipse or Visual Studio extremely difficult to use, and my productivity would tank. Gee, I found Eclipse to be incredibly daunting, too. Too much so for me to bother

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Paul McNett
On 2/4/13 12:25 PM, Ted Roche wrote: Add another vote there! I used Eclipse for a couple of Ruby in Rails projects, and found it slow and difficult to maintain. Having come from the tightly-integrated IDE of FoxPro, I thought this would be a gentler introduction into FOSS tools, but found it

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 2/4/2013 4:58 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote: There we part ways a bit. Being still a bit typing-impaired, I find a tool which auto-fills variable/function/object names helps me a lot. Especially since I subscribe to LongDescriptiveFunctionNames(WhichHelp,TheMushySpace,BetweenMyEars)

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Ed Leafe
On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) foxh...@information-architecture.com wrote: These days, a terminal, a browser and a ViM session are all I need. There we part ways a bit. Being still a bit typing-impaired, I find a tool which auto-fills variable/function/object names

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Ed Leafe
On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote: I suspect there are probably some nice things I'm missing by not using an IDE, but I haven't tried an IDE yet that didn't annoy me in some way. Like you, I think this is some deficiency in me, not in the IDE, since so many

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Paul McNett
On 2/4/13 2:11 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: These days, a terminal, a browser and a ViM session are all I need. There we part ways a bit. Being still a bit typing-impaired, I find a tool which auto-fills variable/function/object names helps me a lot. Especially since I subscribe to

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Ed Leafe
On Feb 4, 2013, at 4:29 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote: Do you use the built-in autocomplete or something else? Built-in - what more could you need? ;-) -- Ed Leafe ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Ed Leafe ed.le...@rackspace.com wrote: Just in case you didn't know, vim has auto-completion, too. I couldn't work very well without it. And support for multiple windows, multiple buffers, a built-in scripting language, a rich community of plugins that

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Paul McNett
On 2/4/13 2:30 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: Do you use the built-in autocomplete or something else? Built-in - what more could you need? ;-) Well unless I'm missing something the built-in one has no idea what namespace context we are in when suggesting completions, and it doesn't complete

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Ed Leafe
On Feb 4, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote: Well unless I'm missing something the built-in one has no idea what namespace context we are in when suggesting completions, and it doesn't complete method arguments, etc. Ah, I see what you mean. No, I don't miss any

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)
Yeah, I agree: simple auto-complete is enough. Now that I have completely hijacked this thread: My apologies. Ken On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Ed Leafe ed.le...@rackspace.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com wrote: Well unless I'm missing something the

RE: Guineu project

2013-02-04 Thread Bill Arnold
Christof, Would you mind talking a bit about your Guineu project? How it is going? Are you committed to it? Any links to information on the project? A difficult topic... How is it going? Slowly. Am I committed? Yes, but regular business has priority. When I started the project 2006 my

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-02-04 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013, at 09:41 PM, Paul McNett wrote: It has probably improved over time: this was in probably 2002. It's no Visual Studio, but it's pretty good and very flexible, although it does have an insanely complicated preferences system. Anyway - a seasoned shell and text editor