This is great, Kurt! It is interesting to see the different challenges of doing AI-assisted web development vs desktop development. I recently added mcp servers for playwright and Chrome Dev Tools to my arsenal to allow Claude to navigate web apps and see things himself. If you aren't already uploading screenshots manually in your prompt, you could also do that. I did a quick google search to see if there were any "mcp servers that can take screenshots of a desktop app". and it appears there are a few. You might try something like https://github.com/codingthefuturewithai/screenshot_mcp_server to further speed things up. I have a another pet Visual FoxPro app that I've been working on converting to a web app in my (non-existent) spare time, and I'm finding that Claude is a great help in this process. I initially ran bin2prg on the entire project so Claude could read the code better, but there are lots of challenges with a conversion like that! It is always good to hear your progress and insights!
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM Vincent Teachout vinny@caracal.net wrote:
Not an AI fan, but I have to say that this is a great idea, good solution, and the results are great. Wonderful job of using old tech with new!
On Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 at 11:38 AM, Kurt Wendt < kwendt@pakoinc.com> wrote:
Hey there Foxers!
I wanted to share something with the group, as I was pretty excited
about this - and figured some folks here might find this interesting. And, yeah - this does involve FoxPro (which is why I didn't mark this as [NF]).
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