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Import/Export with CSV
by Sytze de Boer 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

I have a problem and I hope someone can help I export 3 fields to a CSV file Code C(15), price N(10,2) , supcode C(30) The code and the supcode may be pure numbers Example supcode may be 12345.56000 I make some changes to the price (using Excel) I now import from this same file and the supcode has changed to 12345.56 Whats the best way to overcome this? -- Kind regards, Sytze de Boer --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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VFP 9 breakpoints
by profox 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hi Foxgang. I think I mentioned this before. Often I want to debug and put a breakpoint in. It starts debug screen ok but does not stop at the breakpoint. However if earlier I put a set step on, it does. It’s really P’ing me off as it seems hit and miss. I do set resource off in config.fpw but I’m not convinced that is the issue. It’s making this good idea into a joke. VFP 9 fully loaded with SP’s. I can’t be the only one, can I? Al Allen Pollard GSL --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] Website Redirect...
by Dave Crozier 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Guys, Without playing around with the ISP settings what is a simple way of redirecting a website to a different domain home page. I specifically don't want redirect it at the control panel level. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.example.com/"> I have tried putting this into the header of the home page but it doesn't seem to work and there are loads and loads of other "solutions" in google that just don't do what they say or are simply too damned complicated. Any ideas or best practices? Dave

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ProFox List Statistics for February 2016
by List Administrator Account 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

================================================== ProFox List Statistics February 2016 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 283 ProFoxTech: 187 ================================================== Total Posts: 422 (Up 22.32% from January 2016) Total [OT] Posts: 7 (Up 100.0% from January 2016) Total [NF] Posts: 186 (Up 38.81% from January 2016) Daily Message Counts for February 2016 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- M 1 - 8 T 2 - 17 W 3 - 27 T 4 - 12 F 5 - 5 S 6 - 3 M 8 - 9 T 9 - 20 W 10 - 56 T 11 - 31 F 12 - 8 S 13 - 4 S 14 - 7 M 15 - 5 T 16 - 11 W 17 - 13 T 18 - 16 F 19 - 16 S 20 - 16 M 22 - 24 T 23 - 27 W 24 - 6 T 25 - 19 F 26 - 19 S 27 - 7 S 28 - 11 M 29 - 25 Message Counts By Day of Week for February 2016 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 18 Mon - 71 Tue - 75 Wed - 102 Thu - 78 Fri - 48 Sat - 30 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to January 2016) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 55 (Up 17.02%) OT messages: 4 (Up 100.0%) NF messages: 31 (Up 19.23%) Total number: 55 (Up 17.02%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 45 Ted Roche 2. 35 Kurt Wendt 3. 29 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 4. 23 Mike Copeland 5. 21 Dave Crozier 6. 20 Alan Bourke 7. 19 Joe Yoder 8. 15 Stephen Russell 9. 15 Tracy Pearson 10. 15 Gene Wirchenko 11. 12 Ken Dibble 12. 11 Richard Caruso 13. 10 Stephen Weeks 14. 10 AndyHC 15. 9 Fernando D. Bozzo 16. 9 Peter Cushing 17. 9 Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) 18. 8 Richard Kaye 19. 8 Darren 20. 7 Paul Hill Top 5 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 3 12% Dave Crozier 2. 1 100% Graham Brown 3. 1 33% Graham Brown 4. 1 12% Paul Hill 5. 1 6% Gene Wirchenko Top 20 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 36 Ted Roche 2. 18 Mike Copeland 3. 13 Gene Wirchenko 4. 12 Alan Bourke 5. 12 Ken Dibble 6. 11 Stephen Russell 7. 10 Dave Crozier 8. 10 Kurt Wendt 9. 9 Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) 10. 7 Peter Cushing 11. 6 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 12. 5 Paul Hill 13. 4 Fernando D. Bozzo 14. 3 Michael Glassman 15. 3 AndyHC 16. 3 Joe Yoder 17. 3 Malcolm Greene 18. 2 Ed Leafe 19. 2 M Jarvis 20. 2 Thierry Nivelet Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 45 Ted Roche 2. 35 Kurt Wendt 3. 29 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 4. 24 Dave Crozier 5. 23 Mike Copeland 6. 20 Alan Bourke 7. 19 Joe Yoder 8. 16 Gene Wirchenko 9. 15 Stephen Russell 10. 15 Tracy Pearson 11. 12 Ken Dibble 12. 11 Richard Caruso 13. 10 Stephen Weeks 14. 10 AndyHC 15. 9 Fernando D. Bozzo 16. 9 Peter Cushing 17. 9 Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) 18. 8 Richard Kaye 19. 8 Darren 20. 8 Paul Hill Top 20 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 6 Ted Roche 2. 5 Joe Yoder 3. 3 Stephen Russell 4. 3 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 5. 2 Rick Schummer 6. 2 Gene Wirchenko 7. 2 Alan Bourke 8. 2 Mike Copeland 9. 2 Graham Brown 10. 2 jerry foote 11. 2 Kevin Cully 12. 2 Richard Caruso 13. 1 List Administrator Account 14. 1 Pete Theisen 15. 1 Bill Anderson 16. 1 Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) 17. 1 Graham Brown 18. 1 Peter Cushing 19. 1 profox 20. 1 Paul Newton Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 53 Multi-Select Grid & Foxite Code Issue (Was... A Question of ListBoxes) 2. 34 [NF][RANT] I need to stop playing 20 questions... 3. 26 DBF Compare 4. 24 [NF] Blogging or CMS or what? 5. 23 [NF] WIFI Blues 6. 17 Remote Desktop Options 7. 17 [NF] FTDI disables devices with counterfeit chips 8. 16 Import/Export with CSV 9. 15 [NF] Phishing and security in general. 10. 15 Problem with GROUP BY 11. 14 [NF] Best format(s) to publish old PPT slides to the web 12. 14 Including an SQL expression builder on a form 13. 12 [NF] A Good Browser? 14. 12 How to allow multiple forms to update the same record pointer in a table 15. 9 Controling the order/timing of processing after doing a form 16. 8 VFP 9 breakpoints 17. 8 NEED ROUTINE TO FILL OUT PDF 18. 8 VFP9 copy to clipboard causes VFP to 'hang' for long period 19. 8 [NF] Two modems on the same network 20. 7 [NF] Two DHCP servers on a network - Changed to [NF] Top 1 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 7 [OT] Two DHCP servers on a network Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 53 Multi-Select Grid & Foxite Code Issue (Was... A Question of ListBoxes) 2. 34 [NF][RANT] I need to stop playing 20 questions... 3. 26 DBF Compare 4. 24 [NF] Blogging or CMS or what? 5. 23 [NF] WIFI Blues 6. 17 Remote Desktop Options 7. 17 [NF] FTDI disables devices with counterfeit chips 8. 16 Import/Export with CSV 9. 15 [NF] Phishing and security in general. 10. 15 Problem with GROUP BY 11. 14 [NF] Best format(s) to publish old PPT slides to the web 12. 14 Including an SQL expression builder on a form 13. 12 [NF] A Good Browser? 14. 12 How to allow multiple forms to update the same record pointer in a table 15. 9 Controling the order/timing of processing after doing a form 16. 8 VFP 9 breakpoints 17. 8 NEED ROUTINE TO FILL OUT PDF 18. 8 VFP9 copy to clipboard causes VFP to 'hang' for long period 19. 8 [NF] Two modems on the same network 20. 7 [NF] Two DHCP servers on a network - Changed to [NF]

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Southwest Fox/Xbase++ 2016: Session Proposals Due Friday
by Rick Schummer 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

This is just a reminder that session proposals for Southwest Fox 2016 and Southwest Xbase++ 2016 are due by 8 AM EST this Friday, March 4. If you are interested in presenting at either conference, please read the Call for Speakers (http://swfox.net/callforspeakers.aspx) and submit your proposals via the Geek Gatherings Submission Web site (https://geekgatherings.com/Submission) Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com

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[NF] Xamarin assimilated by Microsoft
by Ted Roche 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

So, many years ago, Miguel de Icaza tried to create a .NET compatible environment in the open source environments with the Mono project. Somewhere along the way, the Ximian company running that project got bought by Novell, then shuffled off by Attachmate, then spun off as Xamarin (with $87,000,000 in venture capital funding) and now bought by Microsoft. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-xamarin-purchase-is-a-blunder/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software) Supposedly, the first targets (Linux and OS X) have been changed to IOS and Android. Is anyone using Ximian to write apps for phones? I know in the 80s and 90s, there was a popular business model around Microsoft that people would work for the company for a few years, leave and start a skunkworks project, and if they got significant buzz, get bought by MS and come back to work with a tidy little payoff, lather, rinse and repeat. I don't know if that's still in fashion. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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Re: [NF][RANT] I need to stop playing 20 questions...
by Alan Bourke 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

At 06:40 2016-02-23, Ken Dibble <krdibble(a)stny.rr.com> wrote: > There are no technical reasons why I shouldn't > >have been allowed to continue to run Office 97 on Windows 7 Endless backward compatibility is unrealistic and there is a point where providing some aspect of it costs a company more than it's worth in user retention. Should Microsoft or anyone else really have to deal with all the heartache of enabling and supporting 16-bit software on a 64-bit OS at this point in time, especially when there are solutions like virtualisation and containers? Windows does a better job than almost anything bar certain big-iron mainframe operating systems in this respect. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

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[NF] Best format(s) to publish old PPT slides to the web
by Ted Roche 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

Not Fox, but kinda Fox. Google has started complaining about some of the older pages on my web site, which are *ancient* (1997, 98, 99) converted PPT files which MS Office helpfully converted into "state of the art" web pages that Google has decided it can no longer parse, and throws what they call "soft 404" pages: framed web pages that internally redirect, or non-standard HTML it will no longer parse. So, I'd like to open these files up and re-publish them, as a historical archive, not necessarily of any great value. The slides are pretty much curt outlines, where the questions are presented, but the answers were usually at the talk, and hopefully in the associated white paper. So, yeah, mixed feelings. Folks who saw the presentations might grin at seeing the old retro slides with funky themes. I would like to: -- publish the stuff on my website, so don't bother recommending Slideshare. -- preserve the graphical presentation, ideally in a responsive format (big on big screens, small on small screens) with simple (cursor keys?) and accessible navigation. -- offer a simple alternative view as text outline, likely one not-that-long page. -- valid HTML/CSS/JS of course. Here's an example: my 1998 presentation on HTML Help was converted by "Internet Assistant for Microsoft PowerPoint 97" view-source:http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/Dev-14/sld013.htm and makes pretty atrocious HTML (hey, it was 20 years ago, I did too!) the "main page" is http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/HTMLHelp.htm but that redirects to http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/HTMLHelp_files/error.htm with the laughably arrogant error message, "This presentation contains content that your browser may not be able to show properly. This presentation was optimized for more recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you would like to proceed anyway, click here." Considering this was generated with PowerPoint 97 and I'm looking at it in Google Chromium 46, you gotta chuckle. I thought I could do this in LibreOffice, as it has a nice Web export wizard, but I'm getting a bizarre I/O error exporting media. I'll try to debug that Python wizard in parallel, but would welcome suggestions if anyone else has tried to do something like this. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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[NF][RANT] I need to stop playing 20 questions...
by Ted Roche 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Happy Friday, all, and permit me to vent a little steam... "How do I get X to do Y?" is a common question we see on this forum as well as others. (Trigger for this was actually a LUG posting, not here). The Original Poster (OP) fails to explain: - why they want to do this, - what their environment is (OS, #records, performance needed, etc.), - what they have tried as an alternative, - the bigger picture of how they got themselves painted into this corner, and what (ultimately) they *REALLY* need, which is not X to do Y but starting at A and end up at Y. I sympathize that a lot of posters have pulled out all their hair and are at the last resort, but that's no excuse for taking it out on the unpaid volunteers here to help. We geeks often make the bad assumption that everyone knows what we're talking about when we ask an 8-word question, but we can't really fill in "when I try this in MariaDB" or "on the web" or "using a Database Container with Stonefield Toolkit." I have spent a *LOT* of time answering questions online, starting with the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System in 1976 (happy anniversary to me!) and I need to cut back on annoying myself by asking "What are you seeing?" "What have you tried?" and "Have you looked at this: www.lmgtfy.com?q=HowDoIGetXToDoY"" If you don't post: "What I'm trying to Do" "What I tried" "What results I got" "What results I expected" "What my environment is" - relevant OS, hardware, LAN, infrastructure, data structures, size of the data, etc. then you're not going to get a useful answer. Garbage In, Garbage Out. (Also, you'll find, if you write the long post of the 5 What's I listed above, nine times out of ten you'll work out the solution. At least, it works for me.) Bonus points if you've read: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Read it again. This public service message brought to you by Ted Roche & Associates, LLC -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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Re: [NF][RANT] I need to stop playing 20 questions...
by Ken Dibble 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

>Endless backward compatibility is unrealistic and there is a point where >providing some aspect of it costs a company more than it's worth in user >retention. Should Microsoft or anyone else really have to deal with all >the heartache of enabling and supporting 16-bit software on a 64-bit OS >at this point in time, especially when there are solutions like >virtualisation and containers? Windows does a better job than almost >anything bar certain big-iron mainframe operating systems in this >respect. It doesn't take any "extra" work at all to enable software that uses a smaller memory schema to work on an OS that can use larger memory schemas, as long as the OS is designed from the ground up not to isolate those schemas into separate silos. It was predictable at the time when Office 97 was released that eventually more addressable memory would be needed, so it could have been planned for at that time. In fact, OSes at that time could address locations on much larger hard drives than were available for sale. I don't think it magically takes fewer bits to record the location of something out beyond 4 GB a hard drive than it takes to record the location of something beyond 4 GB in memory. OSes are not designed that way as deliberate planned obsolescence, so vendors can extract more money from customers. There is no techical issue with this at all. Using console vs graphical software is a more difficult problem, but it's not the same as 16-bit vs 32-bit or 64-bit. As I noted in my previous reply, running software that is not "NT-aware" on later OSes does result in problems, many, but not all, of which can be corrected with registry hacks. 64-bit is not necessary or helpful for most line-of-business applications. Instead of trying to convince people to accept it as the default, it should be treated as a specialty option for specific uses, such as high-capacity servers. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org

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