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Google API for Geocoding ... Again
by Dave Crozier 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Fellow Gentlemen, I posted a request about doing geocoding requests to receive back a Lat/Long dataset for various addresses a few weeks ago and now find that Google do in fact provide a Geocoding service: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/start The responses back from the requests are all JSON from a Java Script API run by Google. I have looked over Rick's Westwind site to try and get a start on using this method to get back a JSON response but seem to be getting nowhere fast. Anyone got any ideas on a simple & neat way of retrieving this data back using VFP programmatically? Either that or anyone know a free Geocoding site that would handle up to 100 name and address calls per day ideally by sending a text file and receiving one back which could be automated from the VFP end. Never even looked at Web services in anger before so it all seems a little baffling and terribly long winded at the moment unless I am missing something obvious. Note I don't want to have to drop into an intermediate program/language to accomplish this, if possible. Dave

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[NF] Maybe THIS is the year for Linux....lol
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/the-great-linux-game-25-years-and-m… How many times have they said "Maybe this year!?!?!"

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Hard-Coded Scalar Value Substituted at Run Time
by Ken Dibble 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

I swear, my code is haunted. I have some code in a subclass of my custom-built list control class. I provide enough code here to indicate the context, but I don't think I need to explain its purpose to illustrate what has just happened: FOR m.x = 1 TO ALEN(THISFORM.oMail.aSortList,1) ** 2/28/17: ** ** On this date, a user had an "Array dimensions are invalid" ** error at this point in the code. However, the trace gave the ** offending line of code as follows: ** ** thekey = THISFORM.oMail.aSortList(m.x,10) ** ** The parent code doesn't contain any lines like that, at all. ** The array has 5 hard-coded columns, not 10. It has always ** had 5 columns since I wrote this code many years ago. ** There is NO WAY that the hard-coded scalar value of 5 ** in this code could be changed to 10. That is really, really, ** REALLY weird. ** This is the actual code: * Find the corresponding row in the temporary storage array. thekey = THISFORM.oMail.aSortList(m.x,5) ** See? Not 10. It's 5. findrow = ASCAN(THISFORM.aTmpSort,thekey,-1,-1,5,15) IF findrow > 0 * We found it. Copy the temporary storage array row back to the * listcontrol's RowSource. FOR m.y = 1 TO ALEN(THISFORM.aTmpSort,2) THIS.aItemList(therow,m.y) = ; THISFORM.aTmpSort(findrow,m.y) ENDFOR * We use this to control which aItemList row to populate because * I'm not sure the two arrays will have an equal number of rows * in all cases. (They SHOULD because the RemoveAddress() method * truncates both the RowSource and last-name-sorted arrays, but * just in case...) therow = therow + 1 ELSE * The row absolutely should be there. RETURN .F. ENDIF ENDFOR Now, this particular user uses this feature and executes this code quite frequently. But today, somehow, at run time, a hard-coded scalar value of 5 was replaced with 10. This crashed the program, which emailed me as a result, so I have the trace. I can't reproduce it. So it does not appear that the last compile messed something up. Instead, something magically changed that number this ONE TIME while the code was executing. Is this really the proverbial cosmic ray flipping a bit? Has anyone ever seen anything like this? If not, why do these things only happen to me? Thanks for any thoughts. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org

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VFP Codeplex site down?
by Richard Kaye 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

I'm just getting a blank page in Chrome. Anyone else seeing similar results? -- rk --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Grid - Height : Expression evaluated to an illegal value
by Tracy Pearson 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hello, I have run in to an odd error. I have a common grid. It has been placed on a pageframe class. It is used only in one form, multiple times on that form. The hierarchy: grid is on a page of a pageframe, on a container, on a page of a pageframe, on a page of a pageframe, on a form. For some reason, when a user has configured their system to 350% DPI I get this error. "Grid - Height : Expression evaluated to an illegal value" I've added a method "height_assign" to capture things. So the new value is 58, the current value is 94. The parent Pageframe height is 131. The call stack suggests it is during form instantiation, before the Form INIT. Yet this one complicated form is the only form we've seen this error on. Does anyone have some thoughts about what to try? Thank you, Tracy

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ActiveX Question
by Dave Crozier 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Gentlemen, Just come across a really weird problem whilst installing some software on a new machine. It uses MSCAL.OCX as an ActiveX component which on the majority of machines is installed by default. However in this case it isn't and hence requires regsvr32 to register it - or (as I thought) simply to place the ocx into the folder of the application where it should be picked up automaticall - which it is NOT doing! Is this just a feature of MSCAL.OCX i.e it can't be put into the application folder and why doesn't it work!!! Unfortunately the machine(s) I am loading it on are locked down as non administrator users and nobody seems to know the administrator password on the network due to the network being managed by a 3rd party who are not available... Any ideas? Dave --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Southwest Fox/Xbase++ 2017: Call for Speakers
by Rick Schummer 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

We've issued the Call for Speakers (http://www.swfox.net/CallForSpeakers.pdf) for Southwest Fox 2017 and Southwest Xbase++ 2017. If you are interested in presenting at either conference, please read the document and consider submitting sessions via the Geek Gatherings Submission Web site (https://geekgatherings.com/Submission) The conferences take place October 26-29, 2017. Session proposals are due by Monday, March 13 at 8 AM EST. Rick, Doug and Tamar Geek Gatherings

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RE: [NF] Unbiased Cyber Security Resources
by Ken Dibble 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

>How about actively testing your systems with penetration testing? > >https://www.kali.org/ > >When being offensive is a good thing! Bruce Schneier on penetration testing: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/05/is_penetration.html I'm inclined to agree with most of his points. Not every theoretical threat ever becomes an actual threat, and not every actual threat is an actual threat for a particular organization. The idea of security management is to apply cost/benefit analysis to find the best means to address actual vulnerabilities in a specific setting. Thanks. Ken www.stic-cil.org

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[NF] Unbiased Cyber Security Resources
by Ken Dibble 24 Feb '17

24 Feb '17

Hi folks, I am looking for unbiased sources of information on various "cyber security" issues. That is, the source should not be trying to sell me any products or services. And the source should understand the meaning of the following terms: "individualized threat assessment" "proportionate response" I'm not looking for beginner-level stuff like "always keep your software updated" but rather objective analysis of specific types of threats and potential weaknesses. Who do you trust in these matters? Thanks to all who respond. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org

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Re: [NF] Unbiased Cyber Security Resources
by Ken Dibble 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

>Bruce Schneier would like you to buy his books, but he puts out an >*excellent* email newsletter at no charge with lots of good info, far >more than I can read in a month. Thanks very much Ted. This one in particular looks like a real winner. Ken

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