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[NF] If you're in the market for a super-lightweight console text editor ...
by Alan Bourke 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

... for all the major platforms. https://github.com/zyedidia/micro -- 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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Sending Faxes from FoxPro
by Ted Roche 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

I'm supporting a vertical niche app that sends faxes. (Yes, faxes. I've gotten a lot of snarky comments from folks who can't believe in the Third Age of the Internet that people still rely on faxes to do business, but it is true: the recipients of orders are factories far from modern internet hubs and faxes are still the best alternative, even though error-prone and primitive. The system also supports order-by-email and EDI. So, that out of the way,...) MaxEmail has announced they have been bought by eFax, and account costs are going up significantly. A $14.85/yr personal account will be $84/yr. A larger account will go from $69.95/year to $19.95/mo, with $0.10/page charges over 200 faxes. I'm still working out the cost implications. Generally an additional $15/mo charge won't break the backs of any client, but if there's another alternative available at a reasonable price, it's incumbent on me to consider it. I've checked the Wiki and the last Fax entry was dated 2008. I've checked the leafe.com forums and mostly it's me recommended Maxemail :). There's also send2fax, which I'm going to check out, although it looks like the same company, rates are better. Hmmm. Anyone else sending faxes? How are you doing it? And what kind of costs are you incurring? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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Leading Zeroes
by Gene Wirchenko 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Hello: On Foxite, Shaheryar Rashed started a thread "slow save at network". While I had nothing to add in general, I did note some awkward code: mvoucher = Right('0000' + Alltrim(Str(Thisform.voucherno1.Value)),5) How do you do leading zeroes cleanly? This is a thing that has bothered me. One would think it would make an excellent option for transform(). There is @L but transform(123,"@L") generates "0000000123.00" which is not anything that anyone is likely to want. Usually, I want leading zeroes on integers. transform() is not the answer; padl() is. Suppose you have 123 and want "00123". padl(123,5,"0") does it. Since the VFP documentation does not specify how the first expression is stringised, you might prefer padl(transform(123),5,"0") Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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[NF] Headed to SWFox
by Tracy Pearson 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

My boss and I are headed to this year's SWFox conference. We will be there Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. We are wondering if we should rent transportation for dinners. Partly due to I am a dairy free vegetarian, and partly due to where restaurants are. We have not been to SWFox at this location before. Feel free to respond off line if you like. Thank you for any feedback, Tracy

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Re: Leading Zeroes
by Gene Wirchenko 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

At 12:45 2016-09-12, Thierry Nivelet <tnivelet(a)foxincloud.com> wrote: >? Transform(123, '@L 99999') && 00123 Thank you. I *almost* tried that. I did not have the space between the @L and the 99999. Try it without the space, that is ? Transform(123, '@L99999') && 00123? NOPE! and see the difference. The docs do not give an example of more than one specification in the spec string. [snipped previous] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Processing a long character string one character at a time
by Joe Yoder 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

I have a routine that processes each character in a file. The file I am working with is over 2 million characters long. I pull it into a memory variable with filetostr and then process each character with the substr command. Apparently substr has problems when dealing with a long string as the process is painfully slow. I suspect that I will be better off using the low level file routines to read one character at a time but thought maybe someone knows of a way to speed up the approach I am using now. Thanks in advance, Joe --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Importing a CSV with carriage returns embedded in fields
by Joe Yoder 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

When one imports a .CSV file with carriage returns embedded in a field that is delimited by quotation marks, Foxpro ignores the quotation marks and assumes any carriage returns it finds indicate the end of a record. The file I am working with ends up with several hundred extra (garbled) records because of this fact. When the file is opened by Excel the problem does not occur. My question is if someone is aware of a solution to this problem. In this particular case, I think I can do a workaround by simply eliminating the problem field . Sooner or later I will probably get into a situation where I end up writing my own import but it hasn't happened yet. Thanks in advance for any solutions or ideas, Joe --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Re: M$ giving more support to dbf?
by Mike 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

There's a python desktop package for windows.Mike Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. -------- Original message --------From: Laurie Alvey <trukker41(a)gmail.com> Date: 9/10/16 8:12 PM (GMT-06:00) To: profoxtech(a)leafe.com Subject: Re: M$ giving more support to dbf? haven't looked at Dabo, but doesn't Python mean web based apps? Can it do desktop? Laurie On 10 September 2016 at 22:45, Darren <foxdev(a)ozemail.com.au> wrote: > V1.02 was first for me. Been with it ever since. > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken > McGinnis > Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2016 6:08 AM > To: profoxtech(a)leafe.com > Subject: Re: M$ giving more support to dbf? > > True, but change is painful or at least it seems like it would be painful. > > I, like some others on this list started with Fox back in the 1980's and > like some others on this list, I hope god will deliver a miracle and save > us. I haven't prayed yet. Maybe that would help? > > Note that VFP9 SP2 works great with Win10, even with only 2gb memory - even > better than on Win7,8,8.1. > > > On 9/10/2016 8:46 AM, Edward Leafe wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2016, at 6:39 AM, Man-wai Chang <changmw(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Resurrect Visual Foxpro, please! Make it 64-bit at least! :) > > Well, Paul McNett and I *tried* to do that when we created Dabo, which > does pretty much everything that VFP does, but with an open license and a > future path forward. It did require learning Python instead of Xbase, but > other than that, it had data binding, support for multiple backends (even a > DBF backend, if someone had maintained it). It's been production-ready for > over a decade. > > > > Very few people were willing to make the effort to move to Dabo. Sure, > you > couldn't directly port a VFP app to Dabo, but new development work doesn't > have that problem. It really seems that people are much more willing to > invest in a product with no future from its owner than to invest in a > product with a future. It's like people who lived on the coast who have > been > flooded as sea levels rose: instead of moving to higher ground, they keep > propping themselves above the waterline and praying for a miracle. > > > > -- Ed Leafe > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > > multipart/signed > > text/plain (text body -- kept) > > application/pgp-signature > > --- > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox(a)leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAMvTR9dGeyrCJvATNrGrm-BFxKa8ciQieyU… ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. Report [OT] Abuse: http://leafe.com/reportAbuse/CAMvTR9dGeyrCJvATNrGrm-BFxKa8ciQieyUQYb3eGr3Jf…

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Re: Processing a long character string one character at a time
by foxdev 10 Sep '16

10 Sep '16

Problem with mline approach is the minimum length for memline is 8 bytes. -------- Original message --------From: Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> Date: 10/09/2016 21:41 (GMT+10:00) To: profoxtech(a)leafe.com Subject: Re: Processing a long character string one character at a time Hi, Joe: Sorry, but my weekend is pretty full, so I can't answer as thoroughly as I'd like to. String functions in VFP are blazingly fast, but have to be used correctly in ways that aren't always obvious. CSV with carriage returns inside fields is not CSV, in my not-so-humble opinion. ALL DBMSes have trouble with long text fields. IAC, check out http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~StringHandling for some clues. MLINE() and _MLINE against your string variable (I know it says it's about memo fields) is what you want, *I think*, but don't have time to check. On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Joe Yoder <joe(a)wheypower.com> wrote: > I have a routine that processes each character in a file. The file I am > working with is over 2 million characters long. I pull it into a memory > variable with filetostr and then process each character with the substr > command. Apparently substr has problems when dealing with a long string as > the process is painfully slow. > > I suspect that I will be better off using the low level file routines to > read one character at a time but thought maybe someone knows of a way to > speed up the approach I am using now. > > Thanks in advance, > > Joe > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox(a)leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4sNMe+yUXR=VhBdRU16HzhDeEDT9Yy… ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. Report [OT] Abuse: http://leafe.com/reportAbuse/CACW6n4sNMe+yUXR=VhBdRU16HzhDeEDT9YyM+JDOgvttU…

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Southwest Fox 2016: Free components
by Rick Schummer 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

DBI is giving away a full license of Calendar COM (ctxCalendar; https://www.dbi-tech.com/ComponentPage_ctxCalendar.aspx) to each Southwest Fox/Southwest Xbase++ 2016 attendee (http://www.swfox.net) Calendar COM is a really great Outlook style scheduling control with three fully extensible views baked into one control: a multi-column Day View (a multiple day appointment scheduler for one resource or multiple resource appointment scheduler for one day at a time), a Week View Appointment Scheduler, and a Month Calendar / date picker. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. DBI has been a long-time supporter of Southwest Fox and we thank them for their generous support once again this year! Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com

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