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Using gmail to send emails from your VFP apps -- deadline approaching for shutoff
by MB Software Solutions, LLC 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

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Using gmail to send emails from your VFP apps -- deadline approaching for shutoff
by MB Software Solutions, LLC 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Attempt #2...this time as text-only....allegedly.... got this notice from google today: Less secure apps & your Google Account To help keep your account secure, starting*May 30, 2022*, Google will no longer support the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. Please note this deadline does not apply to Google Workspace or Google Cloud Identity customers. The enforcement date for these customers will be announced on the Workspace blog at a later date. For more information, please continue reading. *Special Note on Apple Device Sign-Ins.*Users who have not recently signed into their Google Account using only username and password will be able to only make new sign in attempts using the Google account type starting from*February 28, 2022*. Existing users may continue to sign into their Google Account using their username and password until*May 30, 2022*. If an app or site doesn’t meet oursecurity standards <http://track.smtpsendemail.com/9074967/c?p=uWQtfgxA4Aaf-lDhHff3zusNJX4bc0Fe…>, Google might block anyone who’s trying to sign in to your account from it. Less secure apps can make it easier for hackers to get in to your account, so blocking sign-ins from these apps helps keep your account safe. ...so I'm guessing my legacy apps out there at clients will no longer be able to use the internal error reporting (that sends an email to me from my gmail account). FYI for those of you who use gmail in our apps for this kind of emailing purpose. -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP Fox/VFP dev since 1997 Developer of FabNet estimating software - mbsoftwaresolutions.com

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Converting RTF to HTML
by paul.newton.hudl＠gmail.com 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Hi all I spent some time looking for a utility to convert RTF to HTML and asked for help. Darren very kindly offered to help and came up with a solution based on RtfPipe, a .NET library available on nuget We are making it temporarily available here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-K64g4NuEJmk0patx_U80DZte6j9uMHJ?usp =sharing If anybody thinks it deserves to be made available on Ed's download section, I will submit it for approval. Paul Newton --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Forms layout manager
by paul.newton.hudl＠gmail.com 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Hi all I wonder whether this might be useful and/or of interest - it can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v_JUnY-o0jJY-WvpW6N0rO2O7GolFKRd?usp =sharing Paul Newton Forms layout manager (FLM) Description This is a small utility that enables saving and restoring of form layouts. Many of you will have come across situations where the controls on a form are shuffled around at runtime. In order to achive this, the developer will have to work with one form design and then adjust TOP and LEFT for a number of controls by implementing code to make the runtime adjustments. But all the time, in design mode they only see one layout. What if you could have one form (SCX) but have two different views of it at design time and implement either or both designs at run time (i.e. expose one design or the other for the user, or even let the user switch between the two different layouts). What if all of this could be achieved more or less effortlessly and with no need to remember and or calculate object positions? Welcome to the Forms layout manager. How it works Start with a form design, say "Expanded". Run the Forms layout manager and have it store the positions of all the objects at the form level. These will be stored in a table (well I never) and the same table will be used for all forms and all form designs. At the same time that the form design is being saved, FLM can also generate code to reposition the controls at runtime. Now modify the form design, reposition the controls, make the form larger or smaller and so on. Let's call this design "Compact". Let FLM save the new layout and generate the code to reproduce the layout at runtime. Now whenever you want to work in the form designer, and see in the designer what the user will see, simply use FLM to restore the required layout ("Expanded" or "Compact"). In other words, when working in the form designer you will see just one design, uncluttered by the controls in the other layout. At the moment, FLM only processes LEFT and TOP but it is designed in such a way that other properties (e.g. WIDTH, HEIGHT, FILLCOLOR etc) could be handled in the same way with minimal changes required in FLM. I have not yet investigated whether the concept could be extended to classes in a VCX. One thing at a time ... --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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ProFox List Statistics for February 2022
by List Administrator Account 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

================================================== ProFox List Statistics February 2022 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 300 ProFoxTech: 183 ================================================== Total Posts: 73 (Down 1.35% from January 2022) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from January 2022) Total [NF] Posts: 0 (Down 100.0% from January 2022) Daily Message Counts for February 2022 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- T 1 - 2 S 6 - 1 M 7 - 8 T 10 - 2 F 11 - 4 S 13 - 5 T 15 - 16 T 17 - 3 S 19 - 4 T 22 - 7 T 24 - 12 S 26 - 3 S 27 - 4 M 28 - 2 Message Counts By Day of Week for February 2022 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 10 Mon - 10 Tue - 25 Thu - 17 Fri - 4 Sat - 7 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to January 2022) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 15 (Down 25.0%) OT messages: 0 (Unchanged) NF messages: 0 (Down 100.0%) Total number: 15 (Down 25.0%) Top 16 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 28 <paul.newton.hudl(a)gmail.com> 2. 12 Richard Kaye 3. 8 Alan Bourke 4. 4 Kurt @ Gmail 5. 4 Tracy Pearson 6. 3 Jürgen Wondzinski 7. 3 Christof Wollenhaupt 8. 2 <John(a)johnweller.co.uk> 9. 2 Ted Roche 10. 1 List Administrator Account 11. 1 MB Software Solutions, LLC 12. 1 AndyHC 13. 1 Eric Selje 14. 1 Johnson & Johnson Shopper Gift Card Chance 15. 1 Ed Leafe 16. 1 Jeff Roberts Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 0 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 16 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 28 <paul.newton.hudl(a)gmail.com> 2. 12 Richard Kaye 3. 8 Alan Bourke 4. 4 Kurt @ Gmail 5. 4 Tracy Pearson 6. 3 Jürgen Wondzinski 7. 3 Christof Wollenhaupt 8. 2 <John(a)johnweller.co.uk> 9. 2 Ted Roche 10. 1 List Administrator Account 11. 1 MB Software Solutions, LLC 12. 1 AndyHC 13. 1 Eric Selje 14. 1 Johnson & Johnson Shopper Gift Card Chance 15. 1 Ed Leafe 16. 1 Jeff Roberts Top 6 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 9 <paul.newton.hudl(a)gmail.com> 2. 1 List Administrator Account 3. 1 Johnson & Johnson Shopper Gift Card Chance 4. 1 Ted Roche 5. 1 Alan Bourke 6. 1 Kurt @ Gmail Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 7 Back from the Dead & MS PowerApps... 2. 6 Problem installing Thor 3. 6 No classes in REGISTRY.VCX 4. 6 Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images. 5. 6 Copy contents of code/editor window with formatting 6. 5 Problem with bbControls and MFC70.DLL 7. 5 VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - SOLVED 8. 5 Update and summary of findings: Syntax highlighting, registry settings and Tools~Options~Editor settings 9. 4 VFP code window contents to HTML - request for help/collaboration 10. 4 Update and summary of findings: Syntax highlighting, registry settings and Tools~Options~Editor settings 11. 3 [SPAM] Problem moving controls on a form at runtime 12. 3 Pictures and fontnames in dropdown lists and listboxes 13. 3 Problem moving controls on a form at runtime 14. 2 VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - NOT SOLVED 15. 1 Transparent commandbuttons in Windows 11 16. 1 [ADMIN] 404 reporting spam, like Error 13 while attempting to report error 13 17. 1 AW: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images. 18. 1 ProFox List Statistics for January 2022 19. 1 AW: [SPAM] Problem moving controls on a form at runtime 20. 1 Leave your feedback and you could WIN! Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 7 Back from the Dead & MS PowerApps... 2. 6 Problem installing Thor 3. 6 No classes in REGISTRY.VCX 4. 6 Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images. 5. 6 Copy contents of code/editor window with formatting 6. 5 Problem with bbControls and MFC70.DLL 7. 5 VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - SOLVED 8. 5 Update and summary of findings: Syntax highlighting, registry settings and Tools~Options~Editor settings 9. 4 VFP code window contents to HTML - request for help/collaboration 10. 4 Update and summary of findings: Syntax highlighting, registry settings and Tools~Options~Editor settings 11. 3 [SPAM] Problem moving controls on a form at runtime 12. 3 Pictures and fontnames in dropdown lists and listboxes 13. 3 Problem moving controls on a form at runtime 14. 2 VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - NOT SOLVED 15. 1 Transparent commandbuttons in Windows 11 16. 1 [ADMIN] 404 reporting spam, like Error 13 while attempting to report error 13 17. 1 AW: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images. 18. 1 ProFox List Statistics for January 2022 19. 1 AW: [SPAM] Problem moving controls on a form at runtime 20. 1 Leave your feedback and you could WIN!

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Back from the Dead & MS PowerApps...
by Kurt ＠ Gmail 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Hey there folks, I know its been a while since many of you last heard from me. Yeah, I used to be Very Active on this forum some years ago. I did manage to get an Awesome 3D Printing job last year in July, it was Truly my Dream Job. And, that's not an exaggeration. But, alas - situation went FUBAR, and the co. let go 40% of workforce between Cali & Texas operations - including me... So, I'm Back to Searching for a job, and also back to maybe being a little more active on here. As I'm now looking at programming jobs, as well as 3D Printing related jobs. Anyway, I came across this job listing, which of course mentioned FoxPro. But, then it also mentioned MS PowerApps. I'd Never heard of that. And, a quick search seems to show you can do Drag&Drop screen design, with little coding required. As such, I was curious to know if Anyone here had any experience with that!?!? OK, its back to the job search now. I look forward to hearing back from the Hive Mind here. Regards, Kurt

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Problem moving controls on a form at runtime
by paul.newton.hudl＠gmail.com 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

Hi all I am trying to reposition controls on a form at runtime and all is working well, except for one control (Microsoft Web Browser olecontrol). I can adjust its width and height, but whatever I have tried fails to move the control to a new Top and Left position on the form. I have tried setting Top and Left on the control and its object (i.e. on MyOLEControl and on MyOLEControl.Object. I have tried in the form Init, in the form Activate and from a command button Click event after the form has displayed. All to no avail. Am I missing something here? I can probably resolve the problem by putting the oleControl inside a container and then moving the container, but I would rather not have to do that. Many thanks Paul Newton --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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No classes in REGISTRY.VCX
by paul.newton.hudl＠gmail.com 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

Hi all When I open REGISTRY.VCX from its usual location (in folder FFC), there are no classes present. I have a good copy elsewhere and when I open it the expected classes are there. So, I copied the VCX and VCT from the good location to the FFC folder but still opening it from FFC there are no classes present. The VFP home folder is excluded from virus checking. I am completely baffled (and very, very frustrated) . Paul Newton --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.
by Alan Bourke 22 Feb '22

22 Feb '22

We have a customer who when printing a particular report from a Visual Foxpro application sometimes selects the Microsoft PDF Printer (installed with MS Office). This then prompts for a PDF file to save the report output to. They then open the PDF in Acrobat Reader or whatever and need to select and copy some text from it. The problem is that sometimes the PDF is rendered as an image so no individual elements are selectable in Acrobat Reader. All fonts on the layout are standard Arial. There are no settings on the PDF printer to adjust and nothing on the VFP side that I can see would affect it. Replicating this process with the report layouts in question on my PC works fine. Has anyone ever come across this ? -- 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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VFP code window contents to HTML - request for help/collaboration
by paul.newton.hudl＠gmail.com 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

Hi all I am working on a project which I hope may be of interest to VFP developers and which I intend to make available on Eds downloads section (if I can get it working properly). It is designed to: Use the clipboard to copy code from an open code window Fetch the contents of the clipboard as RTF Convert the RTF to HTML and display it in a web browser control It could be helpful in two ways: 1. To experiment with different colours and styles, change them and see the results immediately. You can change several areas (Keywords etc) and having made the changes (either one at a time or all at once) see their effect on the code in the web browser (instead of that stupid little preview that you get in Tools~Options~Editor) 2. The resulting HTML could be copied to the clipboard and pasted straight into, for example, a web page or blog. At the moment the RTF to HTML conversion itself makes use of a third party control (TextDynamic). Not only is this control complete overkill for what is needed, but it is also eye-wateringly expensive (as in £ hundreds). So I have put together (from various sources) a C#/.NET application to do the conversion and it builds successfully. However stepping through the code I get to a point where there seems to be a problem (not an error, just not doing what I tell it to do ). The relevant part of the code is based on HtmlToXamlDemo.HtmlFromXamlConverter.WriteFlowDocument(System.Xml.XmlTextRea der, System.Xml.XmlTextWriter) Example (csharpcodi.com) <https://www.csharpcodi.com/csharp-examples/HtmlToXamlDemo.HtmlFromXamlConve rter.WriteFlowDocument(System.Xml.XmlTextReader,%20System.Xml.XmlTextWriter) /> If anybody would be prepared to work on this with me, or to help me move forward, would they please contact me off-list. Many thanks Paul Newton --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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