ProFox March 2017

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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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Codeplex is shutting down, VFPX.org is spinning up
by Ted Roche 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

You can always count on Microsoft... ... to let you down. Codeplex is shutting down: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/03/31/shutting-down-codeplex/ The wise Rick Schummer and company registered vfpx.org, so stay tuned for migration news. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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Retrospective properties - the magic of inheritance
by Paul Newton 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Hi all Let's say I have five classes (Class1, Class2 etc.) and that each class is a subclass of the one before it (class2 is a subclass of class1, class3 is a subclass of class2 etc.) Now let's suppose that I have added a custom property (e.g. "MyProperty") to class3 and set its value to "Property3". At this point class4 and class5 will inherit the property MyProperty with the value "Property3". Now I add the custom property MyProperty to class1 and set its value to "Property1" and everything is just fine. Now class2 will inherit the property MyProperty with the value "Property1" and classes class3, class4, class5 will inherit the property MyProperty with the value "Property3". I think that's great and potentially very useful because it means I can create a property at the top of the hierarchy without having to worry about whether a property of the same name has already been defined lower down the hierarchy. Paul Newton

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[OT] Humour: I Work From Home
by Gene Wirchenko 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Hello: It does get lonely working from home, but it could be worse: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-home Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Debug Window is HIDING From ME!
by Kurt Wendt 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

So - I noticed a strange problem had been happening to me recently. Although - at the time - I had a ton of stuff open and I had not rebooted my Work PC here for a LONG time. Well, I just rebooted it a couple of days ago - and, I am now having this strange problem again! The problem - the VFP Debug window - its like its "Hidden". I just went to the VFP menu, clicked on Debugger under Tools. But, the Debug window does NOT appear on the screen! However, if I click on the Fox icon at the bottom of my screen (and I have Two sessions of VFP currently open) - it display 3 small windows - 2 VFP sessions - and the 3rd small window is the Debug window. But, if I click on it - it does NOT go full size on my screen. I find this VERY Weird - and have NO Clue as to why it's happening. FYI - I'm running VFP 9 SP2 on Win7 Pro 64-bit. Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst One New York Plaza - 34th Floor New York, NY 10004-1936, USA Tel. +1-212-747-9100 Direct +1-212-405-8246 www.GlobeTax.com GlobeTax does not provide or offer, and this is not, tax, investment or legal advice. This email and any attachments hereto is intended only for use by the addressee(s) and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please immediately notify the sender at +1-212-747-9100 and permanently delete the original and any copies of this email.

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FRX getting trashed
by Paul Newton 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Hi all I have noticed something rather worrying of late which I have _never_ come across before. It is not reproducible and I can't be at all sure what might be causing the problem. The problem manifests itself when attempting to edit or run a previously good report (valid FRT and FRX). VFP complains that the FRX is missing but lo and behold when I look in the reports folder I can see the FRT and a temp file with the same date/timestamp and a name similar to 0005UVIH02KM.TMP. If I rename this temp file to give it the same name as the FRT but with an FRX extension then everything is restored back to normal. This is really weird and I wondered if anybody else had ever seen anything similar Paul Newton

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Excel class not registered
by Paul Newton 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

Hi all Whilst testing AssocQueryString I temporarily renamed EXCEL.EXE. When finished I restored the original name. However, now: CreateObject('Excel.Application') returns an OLE error code 0x80040154: Class not registered. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks Paul Newton

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Default application for shellexecute
by Paul Newton 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Hi all I want to find out in advance what application shellexecute will invoke for a given file type (e.g.TXT, XLS, DOC) etc. or indeed if there is no default application for the file type in question. Any ideas ? Many thanks Paul Newton

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[NF] Software craftsmanship
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Good article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-software-craftsmanship-david-max "Our view at LinkedIn — and I’m saying this not because somebody designated me to define company policy, but rather because this is just how we talk about craftsmanship here (it’s even on our internal Wiki page) — is that craftsmanship is one piece of what we call engineering excellence. We call it engineering because engineering is all about recognizing constraints and negotiating the right tradeoffs between them."

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