ProFox February 2018

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Re: String Reference to Object
by Gene Wirchenko 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

At 11:07 2018-02-15, Gene Wirchenko <genew(a)telus.net> wrote: >At 10:57 2018-02-15, "Fernando D. Bozzo" <fdbozzo(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>To talk with an example, if you have this: >> >>oObj = createobject("custom") >>reference = "oObj" >> >>The you have at least 3 options: >> >>1) The way you know => &reference..referredto >> >>2) Using evaluate => =Evaluate(reference + ".referredto") >> >>3) My preferred: Caching the object and then using it: >> >>oRef = Evaluate(reference) >>? oRef.refered1 >>? oRef.refered2 >>... > > I was hoping to avoid evaluate(), but your third way makes > sense. I will check if it works in all the contexts I am thinking > of. (I was using "object" and "reference" rather loosely.) Unfortunately, it does not work in my usual use case: as an alias. Example: use ccli where=evaluate("ccli") && Nope ? where.clcode Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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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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[NF] Build iOS or Droid apps with Xamarin
by Stephen Russell 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

Building Your First Xamarin.Forms App with Xamarin for Visual Studio https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=NGvn-pGZFPA -- 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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Re: Free to a good home: HackFox6, OfficeAuto, Essential Sourcesafe
by Gene Wirchenko 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

At 10:49 2018-02-23, Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Yep, it's a heart-breaker. I cleared out most of the 2.x books, >although I kept a handful. I've still got a complete HWP collection >and 3 feet of other VFP books; these offered are brand new, never >opened, NOS, extra, spare, surplus duplicates. Laura's got her copies, >and I've got my copies and we've got more than a few autographed ones. >The local library book sales won't even take them. It's off to the >recycling center with 'em. Even signed by the [^Wa co-]author copies? <BEG> [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Southwest Fox 2018: Call for Speakers
by Rick Schummer 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

We've issued the Call for Speakers (http://swfox.net/CallForSpeakers.aspx) for Southwest Fox 2018. If you are interested in presenting, please read the document and consider submitting sessions via the Geek Gatherings Submission Web site (https://geekgatherings.com/Submission) Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com

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Free to a good home: HackFox6, OfficeAuto, Essential Sourcesafe
by Ted Roche 23 Feb '18

23 Feb '18

Cleaning out a corner of the office, I came across three books that were promotional copies, never used, of: Essential SourceSafe Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6 If anyone would like them, let me know OFF-LIST by direct email, drop me a postal address, US addresses only, sorry, and I'll ship them to you, media rate. Otherwise, it's the recycling bin for them, I'm afraid. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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VPN on the fly
by Richard Kaye 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

Throwing this out to the wisdom of the crowd. For many, many years we have been doing some data interchange in our VFP application between back office DBs (VFP or SQL) and a centrally located SQL DB via ODBC. The question has been raised about encrypting that traffic by going through a VPN tunnel. I was wondering if anyone here has implemented a VPN on the fly before making ODBC requests. Preferably I could only make this connection when I need it as opposed to firing up a VPN before the application starts as most things done by the program do not require this data interchange. TIA -- rk --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Re: New Term: Zombie Language
by Gene Wirchenko 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

At 07:20 2018-02-15, "Paul H. Tarver" <paul(a)tpcqpc.com> wrote: >Did anyone catch this article about "Zombie Languages"? > >https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zombie-programming-languages-could-visu >al-basic-be-the-next-cobol/?ftag=TRE684d531 ><https://www.techrepublic.com/article/zombie-programming-languages-could-vis >ual-basic-be-the-next-cobol/?ftag=TRE684d531&bhid=19995525687222274123473679 >288983> &bhid=19995525687222274123473679288983 > >While the article focuses on Visual Basic, I think VFP qualifies under their >definition: > >Zombie Languages: "Those old developer favorites that refuse to die" > >To be honest, it makes all of us FoxPro coders cool again: We are all >"Zombie Wranglers!" > >~~~~~~~ Pull Quote ~~~~~~~ > >James Milligan also drew parallels with the perennial demand for programmers >skilled in venerable mainframe programming language COBOL, a language older >than The Beatles. > >"Other languages which continue to be widely used despite running legacy >systems include COBOL. It's known that COBOL tends to be preferred in >business, finance and administrative systems due to its efficiency in >handling large volumes of data - so it's predicted to remain popular across >these sectors." > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ zombie language n. a language that is tried and proven that someone wishes to take a swipe at. See also legacy. legacy adj. A pejorative term used in the computer industry meaning "it works." The first is mine; the latter is from my sig collection. It is interesting how these sorts of articles do not seem to get into why the language is still around. Hoare said about Algol 60, "Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors." Rather than going ape over the language du jour, more attention could and should be paid to workhorses that get the job done and have a record for doing so. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Displaying Content on a TV
by Desmond Lloyd 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

We want to display a list of orders on a TV. coming from a VFP based system. Thus far I have generated a report to PDF, then converting that to a JPEG and displaying that on the TV/ Very clumsy and we have not been able to automate... Would someone please recommend possible ways of accomplishing this? Regards. Desmond --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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