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disappearing methods in forms
by Ajit Abraham 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hello All, This is the second time I am facing this issue on Windows 10. After I compile the project to an exe, I find that entire methods of my forms have gone empty!. First time, when it happened, I "solved" this mysterious problem by having an exclusion entry of my vfp program folders in Windows 10's default Defender program. After a long time, this happened again yesterday - To my surprise - Defender had removed all my exclusions ! - and my methods started disappearing again. By the way - this happened after the last update couple of days back. Woes of Windows 10 ! Ajit --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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VFP9 Grid record focus
by Kent Belan 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hello, I have a weird problem with a grid on a locate screen that I have never noticed before. I have a maintenance screen with a locate button, that opens a modal search form with a grid to select a record. When I load the grid with several hundred records the first time it loads fine at the top of the file. The user selects a record and I return to the maintenance form and show the record details. If the user clicks the locate button again, I load the search form with the grid and position the cursor to the record that was previous selected and the grid shows the correct record. The problem is when the user clicks on the grid, it repositions itself to the first page of the grid and now we are on the wrong record. Very weird ... Has anyone seen this behavior and possible solution ? Thanks, Kent

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[NF] Anyone seen pricing on Java fees for 2019?
by Stephen Russell 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

In USD I saw 40.00 for the applet. I hope our buyer service can do better. Has anyone seen any server-side prices yet? Java still sucks. Fuck Oracle -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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JSON for Visual FoxPro
by Paul Newton 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hi all This is on Craig Boyd's Sweet Potato Software site (https://tinyurl.com/ybk97s97) but the download link is coming up 404. Any ideas where I can get hold of it? Or alternative VFP options to handle JSON? I have tried the following from various sources (e.g. VFPX, GitHub, CodePlex) : nfJson-master (Marco Plaza), vfpJson-master (Ignacio Gutiérrez Torrero), qdfoxjson (Victor Espina) but none of them can decode JSON strings like this: "{\"code\":\" ERROR\",\"message\":\"Message \",\"errors\":[{\"field1\":\"FIELD\",\"value\":\"VALUE\"}]}" They all appear to stumble because of the additional JSON between the [] brackets. I could StrExtract the string between the [] and decode that separately but I would rather find something that can handle this directly. Failing that I'll have to "roll my own". Thanks Paul Newton

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How can you tell the difference programatically between Windows 8 and Windows 10 (from the desktop, not server versions)?
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

VFP9SP2 According to http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPFunctionOS, it looks like 8 and 10 return the same values? Windows 7 Windows 6.01 OS(5) returns "7600" AND OS(11) returns "1" Windows 7 SP1 Windows 6.01 OS(5) returns "7601" AND OS(11) returns "1" Windows 8 Dev Preview Windows 6.02 OS(5) returns "8102" AND OS(11) returns "1" Windows 8 (Release) Windows 6.02 OS(5) returns "9200" AND OS(11) returns "1" Windows 8.1 Windows 6.02 OS(5) returns "9200" (why not 9600?) AND OS(11) returns "1" Windows 10 Windows 6.02 OS(5) returns "9200" AND OS(11) returns "1"

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Re: IBM to buy RedHat
by Jerry Wolper 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

> He’s basically updating the “Apple buys NeXT” story from the mid-90s. Apple was > much bigger and better known, but was having some financial woes after some > management mis-steps. Within a couple of years, nearly every Apple exec was > gone, replaced by people from NeXT. The Mac OS was replaced by NeXTSTEP, > which was re-christened as OS X. Wasn't one of those people at NeXT Steve Jobs? It's much easier to transform the culture when you were instrumental in originally establishing it. > Hey, I guess it could happen. ;-) It could, but it seems unlikely that a culture as entrenched as the one at IBM will suddenly flip, for better or worse. I would imagine that mainframe salespeople will still be in their blue suits when pushing big iron to other corporate behemoths. -Jerry --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[OT] pfSense hardware recommendations?
by Paul Hill 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Hi All, I've got a budget for a pfSense firewall to replace our aging OpenWRT box (which works surprisingly well for a consumer unit, but it's getting old and low on RAM). Does anyone have any recommendations? Rack mount is available but I'm not too bothered. Our dev team is about 15 people. I need a basic firewall with NAT, the odd bit of port forwarding (we don't host anything) and OpenVPN for maybe 5 clients. WIFI is not needed. WAN is 100 Mbps up/down. I don't need a router for the LAN side. I'm unsure what my best option would be. Some kind of ARM box or a cheap rack mounted server (needs to be FreeBSD compatible of course). -- Paul

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[NF] Alternatives to Peachtree Accounting software?
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

I have a potential client who desires to replace his Peachtree accounting software for their company. Will find out more but wondered if anyone here has replaced PeachTree with something else?

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Report with data from 2 unrelated siblings
by Frank Cazabon 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

Hi, CREATE CURSOR Merchants ; (MerchantID i,; MerchantName c(10)) INSERT INTO Merchants (MerchantID, MerchantName) VALUES (1, "Freddie") INSERT INTO Merchants (MerchantID, MerchantName) VALUES (2, "Brian") INSERT INTO Merchants (MerchantID, MerchantName) VALUES (3, "Roger") INSERT INTO Merchants (MerchantID, MerchantName) VALUES (4, "John") CREATE CURSOR Emails; (EmailID i,; MerchantID i,; Email c(30)) INSERT INTO Emails (EmailId, MerchantID, Email) VALUES (1, 2, "brian(a)queen.com") INSERT INTO Emails (EmailId, MerchantID, Email) VALUES (2, 2, "brian(a)gmail.com") INSERT INTO Emails (EmailId, MerchantID, Email) VALUES (3, 4, "john(a)queen.com") CREATE CURSOR Templates ; (TemplateID i,; TemplateName c(10)) INSERT INTO Templates (TemplateID, TemplateName) VALUES (1, "template 1") INSERT INTO Templates (TemplateID, TemplateName) VALUES (2, "template 2") CREATE CURSOR MerchantTemplates; (MerchantTemplateID i,; MerchantID i,; TemplateID i) INSERT INTO MerchantTemplates (MerchantTemplateID, MerchantID, templateID) VALUES (1, 2, 1) INSERT INTO MerchantTemplates (MerchantTemplateID, MerchantID, templateID) VALUES (2, 2, 2) INSERT INTO MerchantTemplates (MerchantTemplateID, MerchantID, templateID) VALUES (3, 4, 1) INSERT INTO MerchantTemplates (MerchantTemplateID, MerchantID, templateID) VALUES (4, 4, 2) I need to create a report like this (the email and template columns must be side by side): *Merchant** * *Email** * *Template* Freddie Brian brian(a)queen.com Template 1 Brian brian(a)gmail.com Template 2 Roger John john(a)queen.com Template 1 John Template 2 This was my attempt to build the data, but I get doubling up: SELECT MerchantName; ,Email; ,TemplateName ; FROM Merchants ; LEFT JOIN Emails ON Merchants.MerchantID = Emails.MerchantID; LEFT JOIN MerchantTemplates ON Merchants.MerchantID = MerchantTemplates.MerchantID; LEFT JOIN Templates ON MerchantTemplates.TemplateId = Templates.TemplateID Can I do this in SQL or do I need to build my cursor up procedurally? -- Frank. Frank Cazabon --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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CDO Email issues all of the sudden? VFP9SP2 app running for years without issue
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 09 Nov '18

09 Nov '18

VFP9SP2 Strange...code that has been working for years using my mbss.bugs(a)gmail.com as the sender now doesn't want to work. Good ol' Error 1429. See screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/Bxe0x4CX I know some of you here use CDO. Did you notice any problems this year? I checked that gmail account and it's using the LESS SECURE mode so 3rd party apps like mine can send email with it. So I'm not sure if this is a GMail problem, a CDO problem, or Mike's laptop environment problem. No real changes in my environment except for using Avast Secure VPN plug-in now, and Avast Secure browser (but surely that's not in play here). Ideas? tia, --Mike

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