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T'was the Night Before Crisis...
by Ted Roche 27 Dec '19

27 Dec '19

'Twas the night before crisis, and all through the house, Not a program was working, not even a browse. The programmers were wrung out, too mindless to care, Knowing chances of shipping hadn't a prayer. The users were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of inquiries danced in their heads. When out in the lobby there arose such a clatter, That I sprang from my cube to see what was the matter. And what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a SUPER PROGRAMMER, oblivious to fear. More rapid than eagles, his programs they came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name: On Update! On Add! On Inquiry! On Delete! On Batch Jobs! On Closing! On Functions Complete! His eyes were glazed over, his fingers were lean, >From weekends and nights in front of the screen. A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, Turning specs into code, then he turned with a jerk. And laying his finger on the ENTER key, The system came up, and worked perfectly. The updates, updated; the deletes, they deleted; The inquiries, inquired; and the closing completed. He tested each whistle, he tested each bell, With nary an abend, and all had gone well. The system was finished, the tests were concluded, The client's last changes were even included! And the client exclaimed with a snarl and a taunt, "It's just what I asked for, but NOT what I want" (attributed variously, my copy came from here[1]) [1] http://www.mdarwin.ca/humour/night-before-xmas/night-before-crisis.phtml Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, festive Festivius, salubrious Solstice, happy Saturnalia and so forth to all!-- - - Ted --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] TeamViewer alternatives
by MB Software Solutions, LLC 27 Dec '19

27 Dec '19

I bought a TeamViewer (TV) license a few years back and it's the purchased one-and-done lifetime license. TeamViewer's business model has changed and they've been pushing annual licenses now for over a year. I like my TV license and it works great for me; I don't see the need to upgrade to the latest. That said, I wondered if others are using another tool they enjoy and isn't expensive. Prior to TV, I used to use LogMeIn (LMI) but then their licensing prices went up too. What's your current remote support tool of choice (other than UltraVNC etc. I wasn't a fan of VNC as YES, IT WORKED, but it wasn't as easy and user-friendly as TV or LMI. My clients on the other end of the support connection are NOT tech folks. I needed it to be super simple and that's what TV/LMI gave me. tia, --Mike

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[NF] X# Bandol 2.2 released to the public
by Johan Nel 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Hi All, Just a short note that the latest X# Bandol 2.2 was also released into the public domain. https://xsharp.info Johan Nel George, South Africa.

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Twilight zone moment for textbox value being different than what it's controlsource evaluates to
by MB Software Solutions, LLC 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

See https://www.screencast.com/t/mQEK40Tqp. I don't understand how the thisform.txtDraftingRate.Value is not equal to 1 as well? Causing a bug in my code at the moment. tia, --Michael

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VFP9 App: Running VFP executable using UNC
by Desmond Lloyd 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

My app has always ran from a mapped drive. Pathing was set "Relatively". Worked fine for years. If I create a shortcut pointing to the executable using the UNC it runs but won't open the first table. So I modified the project so that I would use that relative path for that table and it works! Including the opening all the other tables..... Does that make sense? TIA, Desmond --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] VFP function list status in X#
by Johan Nel 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Hi all, A list of the current status of VFP function/procedure support was published on the X# website. https://www.xsharp.info/itm-help/foxpro-compatibility-list Hope this is of interest to most. Johan Nel George, South Africa.

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{NF] WIN 10 and LibreOffice
by Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Which version of LibreOffice works with WIN 10? Program Compatibility Troubleshooter says each version is incompatible and not fixed: [image: image.png] *Shai / שי **Charles Hart Enzer, MD(Ohio, USA), 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 CenterWebSite: **EnzerMD.com <http://EnzerMD.com>* *Publications* <http://www.enzermd.com/CV.html#Publications> *Tiny Country, Huge Dreams* *ארץ זעירה, **חלומות ענקיים* *עם ישראל חי* --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/related multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html image/png ---

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Intl and Report Labels
by Frank Cazabon 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Hi, has anyone here used Steven Black's Intl code for translating their applications? I have written some code which will open all my FRX files and convert each label to a text field with the expression of the label being called in i(). So if i had a label with the text as "Client" I would end up with a text box with the expression as: i("Client"). This works but ends up with me then having to modify each report to slightly adjust the text box's positioning to get it to line up with surrounding objects properly. Is this the best way to do this or is there another recommended way? Maybe some hook in the reportlistener to automatically call i() on the label itself? -- Frank. Frank Cazabon

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Programatically saving the Outlook signature when using automation code
by MB Software Solutions, LLC 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Problem: need to preserve Customer's email signature in Outlook automation code. Tech: VFP9SP2 app using the latest Outlook client. This is an update to the 8/21/2019 thread I started about using Outlook to create an email with file attachments. Got that code working (see below) but now need to find a way to preserve the customer's Outlook email signature. As the code is below, it creates a blank email and does NOT use their signature. I'm going to research this with fresh eyes tomorrow but wanted to throw this out in case others could chime in. * start outlook LOCAL oOutlook as Outlook.Application, oNamespace as Outlook.NameSpace, oMailItem as Outlook.MailItem, lcFilename as String, lcRange as String, llOK as Logical, lcDir as String LOCAL oRecipient as Outlook.Recipient oOutlook = CREATEOBJECT("Outlook.Application") #DEFINE olFolderDisplayNormal 0 #DEFINE olMailItem 0 #DEFINE olCC 2 #DEFINE olBCC 3 #DEFINE olOriginator 0 #DEFINE olTo 1 oNameSpace = oOutlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI") oExplorer = oOutlook.Explorers.Add(oNameSpace.Folders[1],olFolderDisplayNormal) oMailItem = oOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem) WITH oMailItem .Subject = ALLTRIM(this.txtSubject.Value) .Body = ALLTRIM(this.edtBody.Value) *** mjb 10/21/2019 - added defensive coding for L vs. N and empty too IF ((VARTYPE(this.chkEmail.Value)="L" AND this.chkEmail.Value) OR (VARTYPE(this.chkEmail.Value)="N" AND this.chkEmail.Value = 1)) AND NOT EMPTY(this.txtEmail.Value) THEN .Recipients.Add(ALLTRIM(this.txtEmail.Value)) ENDIF *** mjb 10/21/2019 - added CC IF ((VARTYPE(this.chkSRep.Value)="L" AND this.chkSRep.Value) OR (VARTYPE(this.chkSRep.Value)="N" AND this.chkSRep.Value = 1)) AND NOT EMPTY(this.txtSalesRepEmail.Value) THEN oRecipient = .Recipients.Add(ALLTRIM(this.txtSalesRepEmail.Value)) oRecipient.Type = olCC ENDIF * first add the built PDF from MergeDocuments above IF liCnt > 0 THEN .Attachments.Add(lcFile) ENDIF && liCnt > 0 * any non-PDFs to attach? SELECT curEmailThese SCAN FOR UPPER(JUSTEXT(cfilename)) <> "PDF" .Attachments.Add(ADDBS(ALLTRIM(curEmailThese.cpath))+ALLTRIM(curEmailThese.cfilename)) ENDSCAN .Display() && Save() *.Send() ENDWITH

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[NF] World class enterprise system in X#
by Johan Nel 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

Azyra Systems report that their large scale Enterprise System used by 100+ logistics businesses in 12 countries is now built with X# as the principal language and Microsoft Sql Server as the database. Jimmy Cahill, Joint CEO of Azyra, told us /“We are delighted with the unrivalled coding efficiency, compilation speed and runtime performance. X# not only allowed us to modernise our tried and tested code and business logic but put us at the forefront of everything IT.” / /“We freely mix X# and C# giving our development team access to everything they need to race ahead of our competition. For example, we’ve moved the GUI to WPF and our designers are busy adding charts and dashboards everywhere for visual appeal and to give our //clients immediate insights to their business.”/ /“The X# Team have done a magnificent professional job of building on and completing the work done by generations of the xBase community. They have set the scene for the xBase syntax to be recognised as a much more efficient and elegant language than C# - and by far the best language for teaching object orientated development.”/ --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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