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Problem replacing/deleting temporary picture file
by paul.newton.hudl＠gmail.com 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Hi all I have an image control whose Picture property is a temporary BMP (say Temp1.BMP). I am trying to redisplay the image control with a new Picture property of Temp2.BMP or with a modified Temp1.BMP Using GDIPlusX, I am creating the BMPs with the BitMap.Save method. Once I have used Temp1.BMP as the picture and later trying to use BitMap.Save again to overwrite Temp1.BMP, the changes are not saved (no error though) So I used BitMap.Save to create Temp2.BMP, set Temp2.BMP as the picture (which worked fine) and then tried to delete Temp1.BMP. Again this failed (file in use or similar). I tried Clear Resource Temp1.BMP before Erase Temp1.BMP but that didn't work either. Any suggestions would be welcome. Many thanks Paul Newton --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (May): Register today
by Rick Schummer 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Friendly reminder: if you have not registered for @VirtualFoxFest 2022 (May), head on over to https://geekgatherings.com/Registration and get it done before you get distracted again by posts on ProFox. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com

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[NF] - Dropped Off The Statistics, But I'm Not One
by Paul H. Tarver 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

I realized when I got the ProFox List Statistics today, I haven't been on the list for three months and I didn't want anyone to think I'd become a statistic! Still here, still programming with the Fox and hoping to jump back into the conversations here as soon as I can! Just had a very busy first quarter (which is a blessing) but work has been cutting into my fun hanging out with Fox Folks! Hope to be back in the thick of things here soon! Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Determine if a File is Open
by Carl Lindner 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

I extracted "d:\test_dir\test.pdf". Then used ShellExecute to open it. The user reads the pdf and later I want to erase it. But, it will not erase if the user has not previously closed it. How can I tell if it is closed? Even better, is there a way I can close it? Carl Lindner --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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ProFox List Statistics for March 2022
by List Administrator Account 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

================================================== ProFox List Statistics March 2022 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 300 ProFoxTech: 183 ================================================== Total Posts: 52 (Down 28.77% from February 2022) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from February 2022) Total [NF] Posts: 16 (Up 100.0% from February 2022) Daily Message Counts for March 2022 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- T 1 - 1 W 2 - 1 T 3 - 8 F 4 - 14 S 5 - 2 S 6 - 2 M 7 - 7 T 10 - 1 S 13 - 2 W 23 - 1 T 29 - 6 W 30 - 7 Message Counts By Day of Week for March 2022 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 4 Mon - 7 Tue - 7 Wed - 9 Thu - 9 Fri - 14 Sat - 2 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to February 2022) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 21 (Up 40.0%) OT messages: 0 (Unchanged) NF messages: 8 (Up 100.0%) Total number: 21 (Up 40.0%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 9 Kurt @ Gmail 2. 5 <paul.newton.hudl(a)gmail.com> 3. 5 MB Software Solutions, LLC 4. 5 Tracy Pearson 5. 5 Richard Kaye 6. 3 Alan Bourke 7. 2 Jeff Roberts 8. 2 Stephen Russell 9. 2 Charlie 10. 2 Paul Hill 11. 1 List Administrator Account 12. 1 Ted Roche 13. 1 <John(a)johnweller.co.uk> 14. 1 Johan Nel 15. 1 Jürgen Wondzinski 16. 1 Vince Teachout 17. 1 Michael Glassman 18. 1 Man-wai Chang 19. 1 Rick Schummer 20. 1 Carl Lindner Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 9 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 7 Kurt @ Gmail 2. 2 MB Software Solutions, LLC 3. 1 Ted Roche 4. 1 <paul.newton.hudl(a)gmail.com> 5. 1 <John(a)johnweller.co.uk> 6. 1 Johan Nel 7. 1 Alan Bourke 8. 1 Stephen Russell 9. 1 Michael Glassman Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 9 Kurt @ Gmail 2. 5 <paul.newton.hudl(a)gmail.com> 3. 5 MB Software Solutions, LLC 4. 5 Tracy Pearson 5. 5 Richard Kaye 6. 3 Alan Bourke 7. 2 Jeff Roberts 8. 2 Stephen Russell 9. 2 Charlie 10. 2 Paul Hill 11. 1 List Administrator Account 12. 1 Ted Roche 13. 1 <John(a)johnweller.co.uk> 14. 1 Johan Nel 15. 1 Jürgen Wondzinski 16. 1 Vince Teachout 17. 1 Michael Glassman 18. 1 Man-wai Chang 19. 1 Rick Schummer 20. 1 Carl Lindner Top 8 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 2 <paul.newton.hudl(a)gmail.com> 2. 2 MB Software Solutions, LLC 3. 2 Richard Kaye 4. 1 List Administrator Account 5. 1 Kurt @ Gmail 6. 1 Paul Hill 7. 1 Rick Schummer 8. 1 Carl Lindner Top 12 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 16 [NF] Facets Database??? 2. 7 Converting RTF to HTML 3. 7 Using gmail to send emails from your VFP apps -- deadline approaching for shutoff 4. 6 FoxBin2PRG vs TwoFox 5. 5 CURSORTOXML and NULLs 6. 3 Rude Words 7. 2 Using gmail to send emails from your VFP apps -- deadline approaching for shutoff 8. 2 Determine if a File is Open 9. 1 ProFox List Statistics for February 2022 10. 1 Forms layout manager 11. 1 Virtual Fox Fest: Speakers, Topics, 12. 1 AW: Converting RTF to HTML Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 12 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 16 [NF] Facets Database??? 2. 7 Converting RTF to HTML 3. 7 Using gmail to send emails from your VFP apps -- deadline approaching for shutoff 4. 6 FoxBin2PRG vs TwoFox 5. 5 CURSORTOXML and NULLs 6. 3 Rude Words 7. 2 Using gmail to send emails from your VFP apps -- deadline approaching for shutoff 8. 2 Determine if a File is Open 9. 1 ProFox List Statistics for February 2022 10. 1 Forms layout manager 11. 1 Virtual Fox Fest: Speakers, Topics, 12. 1 AW: Converting RTF to HTML

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FoxBin2PRG vs TwoFox
by Richard Kaye 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hey let's start another VFP thread here. I just noticed that Doug Henning released an update a few days ago for ProjectExplorer (and if you don't know what PEx is and you actively develop in VFP you should) which adds the ability to use different converters for VFP binaries. I've been using FoxBin2PRG in a Bitbucket environment with no significant issues for a while but am curious about the collective experience. Talk amongst ourselves... -- rk

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CURSORTOXML and NULLs
by Richard Kaye 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

While I'm poking away at this, I thought I'd check with the collective wisdom. I've found a situation where I want to take advantage of CURSORTOXML and XMLTOCURSOR. The issue I'm running into is if the cursor being converted to XML has fields with NULL values in the first record, this appears to affect the resulting XMLTOCURSOR conversion. Any NULL columns will be missing from the result cursor even if later rows in the XML contain values. The hacky workaround seems to be I have to make sure that the first record has non-null values for all columns I want in the cursor. Anyone have any other magic tricks? TIA -- rk --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Virtual Fox Fest: Speakers, Topics,
by Rick Schummer 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Virtual Fox Fest 2022 (May) is a one-day event on Thursday, May 5, 2022. We have some great speakers (https://virtualfoxfest.com/speakers.aspx) delivering great sessions (https://virtualfoxfest.com/sessions.aspx) live chatting during presentations, and getting to hang out virtually with new and old friends. This event will feature a mix of new and classic sessions from previous conferences, updated for 2022. Registration details (https://virtualfoxfest.com/register.aspx) deadlines, and cost are available on our Web site. Register for the conference here: http://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Don't procrastinate, get this done today! We're still discussing whether to hold Southwest Fox in Arizona this fall. We expect to announce our plans for a fall conference some time in April. More details here: https://virtualfoxfest.com Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com

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Rude Words
by Paul Hill 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Hi All, Something odd happened today at work. Not really Fox related. Our app (C#, WinForms) has a feature where on some screens you can embed a web browser in a tab to display a user definable webpage. The trouble is, the control is based on IE6 (?). We're in the process of updating this to Microsoft Edge WebView2. My tester contacted me today saying there's a funny folder with rude words in it. Swear words. What!?? I took a look. WebView2 will create a browser cache in the application folder unless otherwise specified. We can fix that. But what about the swear words? It turns out that she was using www.googlemaps.co.uk as a test. If you open this in a browser (*DO NOT DO THIS*) you get redirected to maps.google.com and all looks fine. In the cache folder a file called passwords.txt contains 30,000 passwords which are clearly the most common passwords (123456, password, etc). It also contains words like 'motherfucker'. There are other files with common male/female names and TV shows. So apparently googlemaps.co.uk redirects you to google maps and attempts a dictionary attack on your Google account. Nice! Enable 2 factor authentication folks! -- Paul

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[NF] Facets Database???
by Kurt ＠ Gmail 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

Hey folks - anyone every heard of this kinda DB before? Myself - Never! So, I was surprised when this headhunter reached out to me about a job doing this stuff. And, I confirmed - she insists the person must obviously have hands-on experience with it. This is the info about the Gig and her info (she connected with me on LinkedIn - so you can connect with her there): Facets Database Developer *Hi there! We’re searching for a database developer with strong Facets experience. This role will potentially be a role that will be contract to hire, but in the meantime it’ll be 100% remote and a contract. The role will be gathering all information regarding the intended functions of the Facets database and configuring, and designing and creating appropriate frameworks. Do you know someone who is a fit? We’re interviewing asap. Lauren Daher Senior Manager, Consultant Engagement at Catalyst Solutions* I'd say TGIF - but, in my case - nothing to be thankful for in regards to sliding into the weekend... -Kurt --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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