ProFox February 2018

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Re: Throwback Thursday clip
by Gene Wirchenko 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

At 12:24 2018-02-08, Stephen Russell <srussell705(a)gmail.com> wrote: >When I saw the floppy disk I had to ask that stupid question. When was the >last time I had a floppy drive to read one of those? My current desktop computer has a 3-1/2" drive. I wonder if it works. It has a lot of dust. I knew it had one, but I had to search for it. (The front has little doors to hide things.) My previous desktop computer had a 5-1/4". I decided not to bother with my current system. I had not used it in years. Well, I am on-topic for "Throwback". [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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RE: [NF] Destroy your documentation with this new tool
by Paul H. Tarver 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

All I need to know about this, I learned when I read: 'Our modern design hinges on crisp minimalism. Shorter is always better.' I've found that not to be true in my life, therefore anything that comes after that is lost on me. :) Paul -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 10:15 AM To: profoxtech(a)leafe.com Subject: [NF] Destroy your documentation with this new tool Microsoft Writing Style Guide <http://aka.ms/microsoftstyle>! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/style-guide -- 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 --- [excessive quoting removed by server]

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Blue Circle / Hour Glass
by Chris Davis 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

When a user clicks on a grid and my code in AfterRowColChange fires, windows is left displaying a blue circle as if it's busy until the mouse moves or something else is pressed. Any ideas how to stop it doing this? Thanks Chris. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] Destroy your documentation with this new tool
by Stephen Russell 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Microsoft Writing Style Guide <http://aka.ms/microsoftstyle>! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/style-guide -- 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: Licensing strategy
by Gene Wirchenko 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

At 08:02 2018-02-07, mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: >On 2018-02-06 22:25, Carl Lindner wrote: >>Mike, >>Not sure about Stephen's tip. Unless you are charging big bucks per user. >>You would have to track - on a daily basis logged in users. Then, would >>have to show those days where usage was exceeded. You would have variable >>billing. Seems like a lot of work - depending on the incremental charge. >>Then, billing could be questioned and you would have to answer. Might be >>easier to license for n and allow for n+2 users or something like that. >n <> n + 2....lol! > >Seriously though...if you track license usage, then you already have >something in place for daily basis in users as you said. You could >give a kind warning, maybe giving them X warnings before a surcharge >kicked in. All done programatically (until the limit is met, and >then you'd manually bill them if they accepted some "WARNING: >PROCEEDING WILL INCUR A FEE OF $5 FOR THIS EXTRA USER BEYOND YOUR >LICENSE LIMIT." or something nicer and friendlier than that. > >I don't think I would do that anyway, but it's an interesting discussion. I do not think that that would be workable. If there are that many users, the end user who would "proceed" likely does not have authorisation to incur expenses on behalf of the client. The client might well repudiate the charge and could have good legal grounds to do so. (It is not reasonable to expect a clerk to have such authorisation.) Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Licensing strategy
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

If you were marketing a vertical app and pricing it per license, would you consider a license specific to the installed machine or keep track of users logged in and make sure the active user count doesn't go over the # of licenses the client purchased? My VFP9SP2 app uses the latter, and goes against a MariaDB database.

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Using the ACE OleDB Driver to connect to Excel from VFP.
by Alan Bourke 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

This is the driver installed via: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54920, Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable. It installs the ACE 12 OLEDB and ODBC drivers so you can (for example) query Excel sheets using SQL into a VFP cursor. I've been using the 2010 version for years. This version isn't playing ball with VFP however. It appears to be installed correctly because I can pull data out of a sheet from a C# program. However trying to do the same from VFP, with the exact same connection string throws up a dialog looking for a data source to specified, and if you cancel that the SQLCONNECT() fails. Here's the connection string: Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=excel.xlsx;Extended Properties="Excel 12.0;HDR=YES;" Has anyone used this version successfully from VFP using the OLEDB version? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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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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ProFox List Statistics for January 2018
by List Administrator Account 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

================================================== ProFox List Statistics January 2018 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 290 ProFoxTech: 183 ================================================== Total Posts: 267 (Down 19.82% from December 2017) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from December 2017) Total [NF] Posts: 72 (Down 33.94% from December 2017) Daily Message Counts for January 2018 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- M 1 - 9 W 3 - 3 T 4 - 13 F 5 - 16 S 6 - 11 S 7 - 4 M 8 - 6 T 9 - 1 S 13 - 11 S 14 - 2 M 15 - 9 T 16 - 7 W 17 - 10 T 18 - 7 F 19 - 7 S 20 - 1 M 22 - 3 T 23 - 15 W 24 - 31 T 25 - 28 F 26 - 22 S 27 - 7 M 29 - 22 T 30 - 16 W 31 - 6 Message Counts By Day of Week for January 2018 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 6 Mon - 49 Tue - 39 Wed - 50 Thu - 48 Fri - 45 Sat - 30 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to December 2017) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 43 (Down 8.51%) OT messages: 0 (Unchanged) NF messages: 23 (Down 17.86%) Total number: 43 (Down 8.51%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 33 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 30 Ted Roche 3. 21 Kurt at VR-FX 4. 16 Alan Bourke 5. 15 Stephen Russell 6. 14 Paul H. Tarver 7. 13 Dave Crozier 8. 12 AndyHC 9. 10 Ken Dibble 10. 9 Chris Davis 11. 8 Richard Kaye 12. 8 Paul Newton 13. 7 Fernando D. Bozzo 14. 6 Michael Oke, II 15. 6 Gene Wirchenko 16. 5 Desmond Lloyd 17. 5 Ed Leafe 18. 5 John Weller 19. 3 Jean MAURICE 20. 3 Koen Piller Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 20 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 11 Ted Roche 2. 8 AndyHC 3. 6 Ken Dibble 4. 5 Kurt at VR-FX 5. 5 Alan Bourke 6. 4 Ed Leafe 7. 4 Paul Newton 8. 3 M Jarvis 9. 3 Dave Crozier 10. 3 Paul H. Tarver 11. 3 John Weller 12. 2 Laurie Alvey 13. 2 Gene Wirchenko 14. 2 Joe Yoder 15. 2 Richard Kaye 16. 2 Michael Oke, II 17. 1 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 18. 1 Jürgen Wondzinski 19. 1 Koen Piller 20. 1 José Enrique Llopis Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 33 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 30 Ted Roche 3. 21 Kurt at VR-FX 4. 16 Alan Bourke 5. 15 Stephen Russell 6. 14 Paul H. Tarver 7. 13 Dave Crozier 8. 12 AndyHC 9. 10 Ken Dibble 10. 9 Chris Davis 11. 8 Richard Kaye 12. 8 Paul Newton 13. 7 Fernando D. Bozzo 14. 6 Michael Oke, II 15. 6 Gene Wirchenko 16. 5 Desmond Lloyd 17. 5 Ed Leafe 18. 5 John Weller 19. 3 Jean MAURICE 20. 3 Koen Piller Top 15 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 8 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 2 AndyHC 3. 2 List Administrator Account 4. 2 M Jarvis 5. 2 Ted Roche 6. 2 Paul Newton 7. 2 Jürgen Wondzinski 8. 1 Dave Crozier 9. 1 Rick Schummer 10. 1 Chris Davis 11. 1 Ken Dibble 12. 1 Paul H. Tarver 13. 1 Desmond Lloyd 14. 1 Joe Yoder 15. 1 Kurt at VR-FX Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 36 [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information 2. 27 Foxpro/Programming Training Question 3. 22 MariaDB 4. 22 Indexes on VFP tables--when do they get updated 5. 18 Trashed class library 6. 18 hellooo-o 7. 17 Searching for FoxPro Work & a Change in Work Status... 8. 10 Timers in VFP 9. 10 [NF] Printer brands 10. 10 VFP9SP2/Windows 10 and Blat 11. 10 Declaring variable as "Empty" ??? 12. 9 [NF] Export to PDF/FDF 13. 8 Command Window: 14. 7 [NF] C=64 on the internet 15. 6 Craig Boyd 16. 6 Rainer Becker's company + Macrosoft 17. 5 Performance issues on virtual 2K12 server 18. 4 [NF] Timers in VFP 19. 3 [NF] Scanned images and Quick Books 20. 3 Weird error with VFP9SP2 (7423 build) using ReportBehavior 90; fixed when I switched to 80 mode Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 36 [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information 2. 27 Foxpro/Programming Training Question 3. 22 MariaDB 4. 22 Indexes on VFP tables--when do they get updated 5. 18 Trashed class library 6. 18 hellooo-o 7. 17 Searching for FoxPro Work & a Change in Work Status... 8. 10 Timers in VFP 9. 10 [NF] Printer brands 10. 10 VFP9SP2/Windows 10 and Blat 11. 10 Declaring variable as "Empty" ??? 12. 9 [NF] Export to PDF/FDF 13. 8 Command Window: 14. 7 [NF] C=64 on the internet 15. 6 Craig Boyd 16. 6 Rainer Becker's company + Macrosoft 17. 5 Performance issues on virtual 2K12 server 18. 4 [NF] Timers in VFP 19. 3 [NF] Scanned images and Quick Books 20. 3 Weird error with VFP9SP2 (7423 build) using ReportBehavior 90; fixed when I switched to 80 mode

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