ProFox January 2018

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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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RE: [NF] RE: Timers in VFP
by John Weller 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

I visited Binghamton in 1981 to attend a meeting at Singer Link, wish I could have stayed longer. Are Singer Link still there? John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > > HI Paul. Pleased to hear that you think it's pretty. I do too--you can be > anywhere in this town and look up and see forested hillsides. >

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Trashed class library
by Paul Newton 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

Hi all A few minutes ago I was working on a single form class in a class library. At some point VFP stopped responding and I had to kill the VFP process. After that I still had the VCT but not the VCX. Is there any possibility I might be able to recover the missing VCX? If so, what tool(s) would you recommend? I am not very hopeful ... :( Many thanks Paul Newton

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Weird error with VFP9SP2 (7423 build) using ReportBehavior 90; fixed when I switched to 80 mode
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Had installed FabNet on a prospective client's computer and when previewing reports, for some reason, everything was enlarged and getting cut off on the righthand side. In one report, I got a report error (but not an error that would have triggered the bug reporting). I switched to 80 mode and then all reports showed fine and no errors at all. Weird. Anybody experience that kind of freakiness before with reporting? My projecthook clears out the TAG, TAG2 values so no printer information is embedded.

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Rainer Becker's company + Macrosoft
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Saw this on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2590363/2590363-6364169620517064707?midToke… ...which links to here (in case you don't have a LinkedIn account): https://www.pr.com/press-release/742936 Macrosoft has been targeting the FoxPro folks on LinkedIn for years now. I know Rainer was (is?) a big Fox guy way back when, or at least was behind a Fox publication?

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Declaring variable as "Empty" ???
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Saw this today while looking for other stuff: https://www.screencast.com/t/PyvZvy53oZFu Never saw anyone declare a variable AS "Empty" before? I guess that's basically this: loMenuItem = CREATEOBJECT("Empty") (although you'd still have to write that code, of course, since no instantiation in declaration in VFP). ???

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Re: Declaring variable as "Empty" ???
by Gene Wirchenko 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

At 12:00 2018-01-30, Stephen Russell <srussell705(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Still trying to think of why you would use it. Likewise. If I want a data object, I usually also want methods. I subclass custom so I can have this. At the very least, I want the object initialised so I want .init(). Having to initialise outside of the object is not very OOP! [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Foxpro/Programming Training Question
by Paul H. Tarver 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

If you had an opportunity to teach a novice who is interested in learning programming in general and specifically with Visual Foxpro who has limited previous programming knowledge and experience, where would you start and are there some preferred VFP training materials/books/videos that are recommended. In my opinion there are two issues: 1) Basic Programming Skills and 2) VFP specific skills, and I'm interested in your suggestions in how to meet both of those needs. Plus if there are other issues, let me know that as well. Thanks in advance! Paul --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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RE: Foxpro/Programming Training Question
by Paul H. Tarver 29 Jan '18

29 Jan '18

Thanks Ken. I own a bunch of Hentzenwerke books and I too found them invaluable, but I read them as an experienced Foxpro programmer not a novice, so I use them more as reference material and for examples than anything else. In fact, on a recent project, I used a little book titled "Using SQLite to Bypass The 2 GB .DBF Filesize Limit" book by Whil Hentzen and edited by our very own Ted Roche to create a unique solution for a client I actually installed this morning (Thanks for the helpful hints Ted!). I too was self-taught starting with TRS-80 Basic, moving to GWBasic, Dbase II, FoxBase, Foxpro for Dos, VFP 6.0 and finally VFP 9.0. I'm able to read and understand C++, C#, Python and several other general purpose languages. I get that anyone can sit down with a manual or videos and learn how to write a "Hello, World!" program, but what I can't figure out is how to teach someone how to figure out a solution where no solution currently exists, or more likely, how to take a solution/example and re-purpose it to solve a different need. Anyway, sounds like we have similar backgrounds, and I'm glad to get to know you through this forum! Paul -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken Dibble Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 9:49 AM To: profoxtech(a)leafe.com Subject: Re: Foxpro/Programming Training Question >In my opinion there are two issues: 1) Basic Programming Skills and 2) >VFP specific skills, and I'm interested in your suggestions in how to >meet both of those needs. Plus if there are other issues, let me know that as well. I'm completely self-taught (and sometimes it shows). I don't have much to offer on basic programming skills. I played around with Basic in my youth briefly, and I got some formal instruction in C++ later in life but never used it to produce anything more than training exercises. I've briefly tinkered with Python--enough to convince myself that I could learn it if I had to, though I've never had to. But for VFP, I first taught myself dbXL using the examples in the manual, and when I had to move from DOS into Windows I taught myself VFP. The Hentzenwerke books were invaluable to me; I'm sure I never would have developed any real-world-usable skills without them. Especially: Hacker's Guide to Visual Foxpro 6.0 (THANKS TED!!!) The Fundamentals by Whil Hentzen Effective Techniques for Application Development with Visual Foxpro (Booth & Sawyer: RIP Ms. Booth) To a lesser extent: Advanced Object Oriented Programming with Visual Foxpro 6.0 - Marcus Egger Debugging Visual Foxpro Applications (Nancy Folsom; whatever happened to her?) Visual Foxpro Report Writer - Cathy Pountney Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org [excessive quoting removed by server]

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