ProFox November 2018

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Re: IBM to buy RedHat
by Gene Wirchenko 09 Nov '18

09 Nov '18

At 11:42 2018-11-07, Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 2:14 PM Gene Wirchenko <genew(a)telus.net> wrote: > > > OTOH, there is that line about insanity. > >Oh, you mean: https://twitter.com/tedroche/status/701896005332168705 Yes. (Were you expecting any other answer? Be honest.) Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: GetFile() issue
by Gene Wirchenko 09 Nov '18

09 Nov '18

At 11:41 2018-11-07, Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 2:13 PM Gene Wirchenko <genew(a)telus.net> wrote: Ted Roche: > > >SETs often have global effects which make their local use frustrating. > > > > I have not found it so, but one must be careful. >Well, OP had a classic case, where the SET is saved, changed, and reset in >a very small snippet of code, but if other code runs in the meantime >(timers, in that case, or menu code or LostFocus events) that depend on the >global setting, confusion results. I can see timers giving problems -- thankfully, I do not use them -- but LostFocus? Isn't that just in the normal sequence of events? Why would it give trouble? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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GetFile() issue
by Dave Crozier 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi folks, Just had an issue that has been bugging me for a while and I now why but I haven’t got a solution to hand… so maybe you can help. In lots of places we allow users to export their reports and spreadsheet results onto their own personal “C” drives. And to do this I implement … default folder set in prior coding cOld_Folder = SYS(5) + SYS(2003) set default to <suggested destination folder> cFile = Getfile(……..) set default to (cOld_Folder) This code allows the user to be programmatically placed in the suggested folder to save/open files. Unknown to me after all these years, the set default to command has an effect on the whole of the VFP thread not just the DataSession you are in. Unfortunately for me I have a number of regular timers running that check whether any particular file or process is locked, or the system is available for use i.e. it can sometimes auto log out the user to allow system maintenance for example. The timers open tables and expect to be in the base folder of the application but issuing the above coding changes the base folder for ALL the application, hence throwing errors as the tables (all held relative to the application folder) cannot be found in the new location. So, if you action the Getfile() command and stay in the dialogue for a period of time during which the timers fire, then the timer coding cannot open it’s tables as you are no longer where it expects you to be. Looking at the help file ( OK, I should have looked at it years ago!!) it states: “The SET DEFAULT command is not supported in either single or multithreaded DLL servers. This command changes the default directory of the entire process, so all threads which are part of the process are affected. Use the mk:@MSITStore:c:\program%20files%20(x86)\microsoft%20visual%20foxpro%209\dv_foxhelp.chm::/html/047f2e74-3552-43b7-a18d-ee2c7dd2db6e.htm in DLL servers, in place of CD and CHDIR.” The pertinent fact being: This command changes the default directory of the entire process, so all threads which are part of the process are affected. The same thing goes for CD and Chdir so using those as replacements is not an option unfortunately. Has anyone any ideas as to how to produce a dialogue for saving/opening a file which doesn’t require the “set default to ” instruction? I can modify all the timers to open tables based upon absolute paths but this would be a mega change which I am trying to avoid. Of course I could roll my own Getfile() unless anyone has one available!!! All suggestions accepted, thanks in anticipation. Dave Crozier Software Development Manager Flexipol Packaging Ltd. ﴾⚆ᨎ⚆﴿ Flexipol® Packaging Ltd T 01706 222 792 E DCrozier(a)flexipol.co.uk W https://www.flexipol.co.uk/ Follow us: Unit 14 Bentwood Road, Carrs Industrial Estate, Haslingden, Lancashire, BB4 5HH This communication and the information it contains is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. Its contents are confidential and may be protected in law. If you have received this e-mail in error you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or email. Flexipol Packaging Ltd. has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise the risk of virus transmission through email and therefore any files sent via e-mail will have been checked for known viruses. 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by Dave Crozier 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Test message to test our email spamfilter…. Mailsphere…. Yak! Dave Crozier Software Development Manager Flexipol Packaging Ltd. ﴾⚆ᨎ⚆﴿ Flexipol® Packaging Ltd T 01706 222 792 E DCrozier(a)flexipol.co.uk W https://www.flexipol.co.uk/ Follow us: Unit 14 Bentwood Road, Carrs Industrial Estate, Haslingden, Lancashire, BB4 5HH This communication and the information it contains is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. Its contents are confidential and may be protected in law. If you have received this e-mail in error you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or email. Flexipol Packaging Ltd. has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise the risk of virus transmission through email and therefore any files sent via e-mail will have been checked for known viruses. However, you are advised to run your own virus check before opening any attachments received as Flexipol Packaging Ltd will not in any event accept any liability whatsoever once an e-mail and/or any attachment is received. It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that they have adequate virus protection. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms & Conditions: Notwithstanding delivery and the passing of risk in the goods, the property in the goods shall not pass to the buyer until the seller Flexipol Packaging Ltd. ("The Company") has received in cash or cleared funds payment in full of the price of the goods and all other goods agreed to be sold by the seller to the buyer for which payment is then due. Until such time as the property in the goods passes to the buyer, the buyer shall hold the goods as the seller's fiduciary agent and bailee and keep the goods separate from those of the buyer and third parties and properly stored protected and insured and identified as the seller's property but shall be entitled to resell or use the goods in the ordinary course of its business. Until such time as the property in the goods passes to the buyer the seller shall be entitled at any time --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/related multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html image/jpeg image/jpeg image/png image/png image/png image/png ---

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Re: GetFile() issue
by Gene Wirchenko 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

At 07:08 2018-11-07, Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 5:57 AM Dave Crozier <DCrozier(a)flexipol.co.uk> wrote: > > > Unknown to me after all these years, the set default to command has an > > effect on the whole of the VFP thread not just the DataSession you are in. > >To quote my co-author, "Computer language purists object to SET commands >for a pretty straightforward reason: the formation of the infinite-state >machine. Although that sounds cool,..." ( >https://www.tedroche.com/hackfox7/s4g126.html) That URL was wrong in your post as it included the closing paren. Oddly, Eudora excluded it in this reply. >SETs often have global effects which make their local use frustrating. I have not found it so, but one must be careful. If I change a global setting SET (as opposed, say, to a SET ORDER), I either set the setting back as soon as I can or I have a procedure for doing the modified function requiring the different SET value. One must be careful about this stuff. >Three things: > >1. If you were rewriting the app, you'd store a "Data Directory" in your >global settings table and precede all your file open commands with that. >That makes it INCREDIBLY easy to have a test mode that just switches that >setting. But you're not re-writing your app, so... I did that for a few programs where I needed to get to a different set of data. I am glad that it was only a few. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Terminal Server 2008
by Chris Davis 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi All Not sure this issue is speciic to terminal server 2008, but we have an issue where a file gets locked so that foxpro cant access it, yet if you look in open files on both the terminal server and the file server the file isn't open. The only way to remove this lock is to either log every user connected to the terminal server off or reboot the terminal server. Anyone accessing the same file directly on the file server can access it without issue, i.e. the file isn't really locked the terminal server just thinks it is. Any ideas? Thanks Chris. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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SPT and Remote Views
by Chris Davis 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi All What extra happens when using Remove Views over SPT? Using the same ODBC conneciton to a Filemaker database if I do "select * from ...." I get mixed results for the text strings. If I perform the same query via a remote view I get the same mixed result. But if I go one step further with the Remote View and specifc properties of the fields it manages to pull complete information out of filemaker. So what extra is Remote View managing to ask of the Filemaker ODBC driver to make it behave? Any ideas? Regards Chris. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Re: IBM to buy RedHat
by Gene Wirchenko 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

At 08:49 2018-11-07, Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 11:18 AM Ed Leafe <ed(a)leafe.com> wrote: > > > Hey, I guess it could happen. ;-) > >Past history is no guarantee of future performance. OTOH, there is that line about insanity. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: CAN You Hear the Silence???
by Kurt ＠ Gmail 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hey there Ted, Turns out - it wasn't my email reader. It seems that Optonline.net was being Black listed, which I found out - since I reached out directly to Ed about the problem. However, I got busy with looking for work and failed to followup and switch to another email address of mine. Well - this has now been rectified - as I'm now using my GMail account. Hopefully it now works (as I think I remember people reporting problems in the past with GMail access to ProFox. Will See... -K- On 6/26/2018 11:24 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > ProTip: visit the Leafe forum archives to see if there are email > messages you're not getting in your defective email reader. > > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Kurt at VR-FX <vrfx(a)optonline.net> wrote: >> Wow - was surprised not to receive ANY Forum postings since 6/16! Has it >> really been that silent - or have I been unsubscribed for some reason? >> Hmmm... >> >> >> -K- >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server]

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OT: IBM to buy RedHat
by Ted Roche 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

I suppose it could be worse: it could have been Computer Associates. Or Oracle, or HP or *shudder* Microsoft.. Reactions over the weekend have mostly been dread from the employees, who of course, can't be sure what happens next. This was, reportedly, the largest software acquisition ever, at $34 Billion dollars. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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