ProFox November 2022

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Howdy Folks
by Virgil Bierschwale 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Been a long time. I'm back maintaining a foxpro system Back in the 90's I used a utility that would allow me to put a text file named shutdown.txt in the root folder and it would force all users out. Been googling and can't find it anymore. Any of you remember it? Looking for a way to kick users out so I can reindex when necessary. Thanks, Virgil --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] PyWin32 for Python 2.3.1
by Paul Newton 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Hi I would have posted this on ProPython but nothing seems to have happened there for a very long time ... Please don't ask why I would want to install such an old version of Python, but I have Python 2.3.1 installed anyway. Now I am looking for the corresponding PyWin32 install files. I believe they are available here https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ or here https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ but I cannot fathom exactly what I need to download or what to do with the download. I am sure somebody can help ... Thanks Paul Newton

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Dymo Twin Turbo
by Graham Brown 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Hi all Probably a long shot but has anyone managed to get labels printing to a Dymo 450 Twin Turbo. I am trying to get it to choose the correct spool (printer has two) . It always defaults to the last one printed to. There is sample code for VB but nothing for Fox. Would've expected if I have the driver installed I can just put the info into the frx memo field but doesn't seem to want to play. Thanks Graham --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] Right-click Open with options
by Paul Newton 13 Nov '22

13 Nov '22

Hi In my setup I have PSPad.EXE and PSPad (Admin).EXE. The latter is simply a copy of the former but with "Run as administrator" set in its properties. If I right-click on, for example, Config.FPW, I already have PSPad as an option but I can also "choose another program" and select PSPad (Admin).EXE and "Just once". The next time I right-click on Config.FPW there are two choices for "PSPad". One opens PSPad.EXE and the other opens PSPad (Admin).EXE which is great except for the fact that both are simply labelled "PSPad". Any ideas how I can get PSPad (Admin) to show as the second choice? Where does Windows store these "Open with" choices? Are they in a folder somewhere or in the registry? Many thanks Paul Newton

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ChilkatVFP 1.1 released - Now with Events support!
by Bill Anderson 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

Folks, When I first started the Chilkat project I was under the impression that events could not be supported in Visual Foxpro. Fortunately, it turns out that I misread the Chilkat documentation. I had found a GitHub site in late September where Chilkat placed some classes that (in theory) supported events - or as Chikat references it, event callbacks. That told me that in theory it could be done. It's done. ChilkatVFP supports all Chilkat event callbacks. It's not as straightforward as I'm presenting it. The Chilkat documentation is lacking, the event examples are missing methods and the parameters don't match in some cases - and you must match exactly or the binding doesn't work. On the Visual Foxpro side the IMPLEMENTS clause of DEFINE CLASS has some pretty serious compilation bugs. And there are some things necessary to make events work that literally I can't explain why it works that way, only that you have to do it that way. So you have event hooks for arriving emails, files uploaded/downloaded, processing Zip and Tar files, HTTP request/receive, and so on. Let me know if it works for you, Bill Anderson --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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RE: VFP9 starts in a folder it creates instead of the HOME() folder
by Jürgen Wondzinski 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

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VFP9 starts in a folder it creates instead of the HOME() folder
by Paul Newton 04 Nov '22

04 Nov '22

Hi all I am setting up a new machine running Windows 11 Pro. I have installed VFP9, together with SP2, Hotfix 3 and other bits and pieces (e.g.XML Parser). I have CONFIG.FPW in the HOME() folder. When I start VFP, I expect the current folder to be the HOME() folder but in fact it is C:\Users\pauln\Documents\!Visual FoxPro Projects\ If I add RESOURCE = OFF to CONFIG.FPW, VFP starts in the HOME() folder as expected. Without RESOURCE = OFF If FOXUSER.DBF doesn't exist in C:\Users\pauln\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Visual FoxPro 9\, it is created there VFP starts in C:\Users\pauln\Documents\!Visual FoxPro Projects\(which is created if it doesn't already exist) I don't understand why this is happening - how and why is VFP deciding to create a new folder and default to that folder when starting? Is this normal behaviour (I don't think I have ever come across it before)? Many thanks Paul Newton --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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ProFox List Statistics for October 2022
by List Administrator Account 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

================================================== ProFox List Statistics October 2022 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 301 ProFoxTech: 183 ================================================== Total Posts: 27 (Up 58.82% from September 2022) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from September 2022) Total [NF] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from September 2022) Daily Message Counts for October 2022 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- S 1 - 1 T 6 - 4 S 9 - 1 F 14 - 1 W 19 - 1 T 25 - 4 W 26 - 1 S 30 - 8 M 31 - 6 Message Counts By Day of Week for October 2022 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 9 Mon - 6 Tue - 4 Wed - 2 Thu - 4 Fri - 1 Sat - 1 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to September 2022) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 15 (Up 50.0%) OT messages: 0 (Unchanged) NF messages: 0 (Unchanged) Total number: 15 (Up 50.0%) Top 15 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 7 Paul Newton 2. 4 Jürgen Wondzinski 3. 2 Richard Kaye 4. 2 Man-wai Chang 5. 2 Alan Bourke 6. 1 Bill Anderson 7. 1 Jeff Roberts 8. 1 List Administrator Account 9. 1 Tracy Pearson 10. 1 Eric Selje 11. 1 Ted Roche 12. 1 Rick Schummer 13. 1 Stephen Russell 14. 1 MB Software Solutions, LLC 15. 1 Richard Quilhot Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 0 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 15 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 7 Paul Newton 2. 4 Jürgen Wondzinski 3. 2 Richard Kaye 4. 2 Man-wai Chang 5. 2 Alan Bourke 6. 1 Bill Anderson 7. 1 Jeff Roberts 8. 1 List Administrator Account 9. 1 Tracy Pearson 10. 1 Eric Selje 11. 1 Ted Roche 12. 1 Rick Schummer 13. 1 Stephen Russell 14. 1 MB Software Solutions, LLC 15. 1 Richard Quilhot Top 5 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 1 List Administrator Account 2. 1 Alan Bourke 3. 1 Jeff Roberts 4. 1 Rick Schummer 5. 1 Paul Newton Top 8 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 14 VFP9 installation on a new machine 2. 4 dreaming of vfp and vscode integration 3. 4 fox.wikis.com 4. 1 AW: fox.wikis.com 5. 1 ProFox List Statistics for September 2022 6. 1 Anyone with C# (and obviously VFP) chops looking for a 99% remote gig ? 7. 1 Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (Oct): Follow-up 8. 1 ChilkatVFP 1.0 Released Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 8 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 14 VFP9 installation on a new machine 2. 4 dreaming of vfp and vscode integration 3. 4 fox.wikis.com 4. 1 AW: fox.wikis.com 5. 1 ProFox List Statistics for September 2022 6. 1 Anyone with C# (and obviously VFP) chops looking for a 99% remote gig ? 7. 1 Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (Oct): Follow-up 8. 1 ChilkatVFP 1.0 Released

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