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Re: Variable/Procedure Naming Conventions
by Gene Wirchenko 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

At 10:51 2017-07-26, Stephen Russell <srussell705(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I have never been a fan of expressing the data-type in the name of the var >or function from VFP days on. lcCustomerName doesn't need c now does it? > dDueDate if you need to read a d as date, why is it in the blasted name? True. Why is the variable name not dDue? I sometimes code using prefixes. Mine are only related to type. For example, I use "c" for count, "x" for index, and "s" for size. All of these will probably be some integer type. >Everyone makes their own style and like art it is yours. And like art, it attracts critics. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: Variable/Procedure Naming Conventions
by Gene Wirchenko 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

At 10:37 2017-07-26, "Paul H. Tarver" <paul(a)tpcqpc.com> wrote: >I was reading a chapter on 'Meaningful Names' in the book "Clean Code" by >Robert C. Martin last night and right after he made a big point of using >"Intention-Revealing Names" ie: make the name of a variable, procedure or >function reflect its use, he then takes the opportunity to trash the >Hungarian Notation system (and by extension I suppose any similar naming >convention, including the YAlan Griver convention) saying that with today's >strongly typed variables, notation like this is useless and should be >avoided. It seems to be tradition in some circles to trash Hungarian Notation. As I understand, Microsoft got its use wrong. This led to the crusade against HN. I use HN, but not for types in the programming language sense. I use it for specifying how a variable is intended to be used. An integer variable could be a count, an index, a size, or something else. I respectively use the prefixes "c", "x", and "s" for the first three. >Quite frankly, it hacked me off as I've spent the better part of 25 years >learning and becoming disciplined enough to use the YAG naming convention as >well as I could in FoxPro and I've used the same naming convention >regardless of the language or its strongly typed variables because it works >for me. Why invest the anger into this? >In my world, any roadmap or breadcrumbs I can leave myself for future >maintenance and standardization is a good thing. Exactly. >Thoughts? Carry on. You are doing fine. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Array Declaration
by Laurie Alvey 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

I've always used DIMENSION a[] to declare an array but I've seen some developers use DECLARE a[]. Is there some subtle difference between te two statements? Laurie --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[FIC] Problems with Adapted code
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Hi Thierry, As I mentioned last week, I'll post here so as to help educate ProFox on the product, using the [FIC] subject prefix. When I ran the latest adaptation assistant, I made the C:\TEST folder (and subfolders) all read-write to remove the readonly errors I had prior. As per instructions at the end of the FAA, it says to run it and make sure it still works. I took that to mean I should run the newly built EXE. So I did: DO c:\test\dev\somerset\mbss_reports.exe *-FIC- Replaced by FoxInCloud Adaptation Assistant version 2.24 (copy mode) on 06/28/2017 06:24 AM *-FIC- WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT 1 lcSalutation + lcUser wWAIT(lcSalutation + lcUser, 'WINDOW TIMEOUT 1') It errors on the FAA-generated wWAIT function with which FAA replaced my WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT (also seen in the commented out code above). Question #1: do WAIT WINDOW instructions need to be taken out of the original code base? Question #2: what's my next step? Question #3: after FAA completes, how do I launch this newly adapted app in my local browser??? Thanks, --Mike

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Scrollbar ghost effect
by Tracy Pearson 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Hello, A Form - MyForm A PageFrame - MyForm.pgf A 2nd PageFrame - MyForm.pgf.Page2.InnerPgf An Editbox - MyForm.pgf.Page2.InnerPgf.Page2.edt Set the MyForm.pgf.Page2 active Set the MyForm.pgf.Page2.InnerPgf.Page2 active Now stretch the form down quickly. In Windows 10, on 3 different machines, we are seeing the scrollbar of the editbox ghost over MyForm.pgf.Page2 Anyone want to try to duplicate that and share your findings? Thank you, Tracy

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[NF] Updatable Code Snippet in HTML
by Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 22 Jul '17

22 Jul '17

"Cascading Snippet" In HTML, I want to insert a header into 100's of pages. But I want to update it only once -- and all the pages will be updated. Something on the order of how I manage formating with default.css. Thank you. *Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAP* *Aliyah <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah>: Cincinnati to Jerusalem <http://www.gojerusalem.com/items/263/German-Colony/>'s German Colony <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Colony,_Jerusalem> May, 2017* *Volunteer Associate Professor of PsychiatryUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center* *May all of us merit endless generations to live and thrive in the Holy Land* --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] Just checking...
by Paul H. Tarver 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

HELLO.Hello.hello. Quite an echo in here. Where'd everybody go this week? J Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc. Email: <mailto:paul@tpcqpc.com> paul(a)tpcqpc.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Re: [NF] Just checking...
by foxdev 21 Jul '17

21 Jul '17

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Location of Out-of-process automation server
by Paul Newton 20 Jul '17

20 Jul '17

Hi all Let's say that I have an out-of-process automation server (MyServer.EXE) containing OLEPUBLIC classes like MyOLEPublicClass1 etc and then I use CreateObject like this: o = CreateObject("MyServer.MyOLEPublicClass1") Class MyOLEPublicClass1 can determine the location of MyServer.EXE using the _VFP.ServerName property but what I want to do is determine the location of MyServer.EXE BEFORE I use CreateObject. I imagine this should be possible via the registry (looking for an entry that refers to "MyServer.MyOLEPublicClass1" but I cannot get further than that. Any ideas ? Thanks Paul Newton

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RE: Validating email addresses
by Gene Wirchenko 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

At 10:33 2017-07-18, Kurt Wendt <Kurt_Wendt(a)globetax.com> wrote: >Kevin - am sitting here at work eating some lunch. I read that one >part of your reply below and almost burst out laughing! Funny indeed. Oh, you think it is funny, do you, punk? You really should not push your luck with us Canadians. You would not like me when I am angry. (You might not like me at any other time, but that is another matter.) [snip] Sincerely, Gene "polite ... for now" Wirchenko

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