Well sorta.
https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
Anyone want to take a swing at VFP ? :)
That's impressive, in the way that playing Doom on an electric toothbrush is impressive.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Well sorta.
https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
Anyone want to take a swing at VFP ? :)
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, at 2:09 PM, Eric Selje wrote:
That's impressive, in the way that playing Doom on an electric toothbrush is impressive.
Doom on a toothbrush? Old hat.
All the cool kids play doom in a PDF file.
https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf
Reading what the Adobe JS lib can do makes my cybersecurity heart shudder.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, at 2:09 PM, Eric Selje wrote:
That's impressive, in the way that playing Doom on an electric toothbrush is impressive.
Doom on a toothbrush? Old hat.
All the cool kids play doom in a PDF file.
https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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As it should… 😊
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From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Eric Selje Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 10:58 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Cc: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Visual Basic 6 recreated in the browser with the Avalonia UI framework for .NET
Reading what the Adobe JS lib can do makes my cybersecurity heart shudder.
Howdy everyone, and Happy New Year.
Your app is only as secure as you wrote it they say.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
As it should… 😊
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From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Eric Selje Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 10:58 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Cc: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Visual Basic 6 recreated in the browser with the Avalonia UI framework for .NET
Reading what the Adobe JS lib can do makes my cybersecurity heart shudder.
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Hey Stephen - Happy New Years to you as well.
Although, admittedly - it's NOT So happy for me...
I've been STRUGGLING to find work - and, looking all over - including teaching/training jobs, 3D Printing, programming (yeah - even applied to a couple FoxPro jobs in the past 5 months) - but, still I struggle. I had an interview yesterday - but, they may take up to a month to hire. It would be an Interesting job - working Massive 3D Printers and print living units ( https://www.azureprintedhomes.com/ ).
But, my struggles have gotten so bad, that I can't survive financially. In the end of Nov. when rent was approaching and I didn't have money to pay - I started up a GoFundMe campaign. And, it helped GREATLY! However, since that time - things got worse again - and now I have to startup that campaign again - just so that my bank account doesn't go below Zero - and that I can pay rent at the end of this month ( https://gofund.me/54c1f337 ).
I did have THREE rounds of interviews for one job, where it would be working in an R&D lab for product development and testing. Running 3D Printers, Massive CNC machines - even testing eqpt. like Stress testing & even a wind tunnel. However, that job - 1st interview was nearly a month ago - and that process is still dragging on - as they told me they are still doing interviews.
Of course - my problems Pale in Comparison to the MANY Poor folks that lost their homes in the fires in LA recently! Myself, I'm down here in Orange County - far enough away that the fires would not be able to impact me here...
Either way - I sure hope others are having a better start to their New Years than I am!
Regards, -Kurt
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy everyone, and Happy New Year.
Your app is only as secure as you wrote it they say.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
As it should… 😊
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rk
From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Eric Selje Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 10:58 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Cc: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Visual Basic 6 recreated in the browser with the Avalonia UI framework for .NET
Reading what the Adobe JS lib can do makes my cybersecurity heart
shudder.
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Doesn't work in FoxIt PDF Reader! Bummer.
Paul H. Tarver Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, at 2:09 PM, Eric Selje wrote:
That's impressive, in the way that playing Doom on an electric toothbrush is impressive.
Doom on a toothbrush? Old hat.
All the cool kids play doom in a PDF file.
https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf
Wow - that Visual Basic thing is crazy. It looks like a environment running on like Windows 3.1 type UI. Or, am I wrong - and it's supposed to be a graphical app running in DOS? I never really did the Visual Basic thing - but, I DID Indeed start way back using BASIC on an Apple II, and then on the original PC-XT machines.
As for that Doom thing - that's just NUTS! I had no idea that PDF files have THAT much interactive capabilities. That being said, is it just me - or does that Doom PDF thing only show a kind of pixelated B&W interface with NO Colors???
Kinda reminds of when I did a basic recreation of the Brick Out game using Visual FoxPro - circa 2011...
-Kurt
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:
That's impressive, in the way that playing Doom on an electric toothbrush is impressive.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Well sorta.
https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
Anyone want to take a swing at VFP ? :)
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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We had a MadFox attendee come ONE TIME and show us his recreation of an RPG done in VFP. It was an impressive start but we wondered why he was doing it in VFP instead of a more suitable language. We never saw him again. I sometimes wonder whatever happened to him or that project...
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM Kurt Wendt kurthwendt@gmail.com wrote:
Wow - that Visual Basic thing is crazy. It looks like a environment running on like Windows 3.1 type UI. Or, am I wrong - and it's supposed to be a graphical app running in DOS? I never really did the Visual Basic thing - but, I DID Indeed start way back using BASIC on an Apple II, and then on the original PC-XT machines.
As for that Doom thing - that's just NUTS! I had no idea that PDF files have THAT much interactive capabilities. That being said, is it just me - or does that Doom PDF thing only show a kind of pixelated B&W interface with NO Colors???
Kinda reminds of when I did a basic recreation of the Brick Out game using Visual FoxPro - circa 2011...
-Kurt
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:
That's impressive, in the way that playing Doom on an electric toothbrush is impressive.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Well sorta.
https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
Anyone want to take a swing at VFP ? :)
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:
We had a MadFox attendee come ONE TIME and show us his recreation of an RPG done in VFP. It was an impressive start but we wondered why he was doing it in VFP instead of a more suitable language. We never saw him again. I sometimes wonder whatever happened to him or that project...
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
Colossal Cave Adventure was written in DECSYSTEMS-20 FORTRAN IV. [1] In comparison, using VFP is not a bad choice.
It's stable, relatively bug free, speedy and is a typical BASIC-clone that most coders can grok. And likely to run as long as Win32 emulation is available.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
BTW, a good day can be wasted browing the online playable versions at https://archive.org/search?query=Colossal+Cave+Adventure
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:
We had a MadFox attendee come ONE TIME and show us his recreation of an RPG done in VFP. It was an impressive start but we wondered why he was doing it in VFP instead of a more suitable language. We never saw him again. I sometimes wonder whatever happened to him or that project...
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
Damn - I can't believe someone did an entire RPG.
So - FYI - a tiny back story for me...
For those that know me - and know I'm a serious 3D Printing guy - I've been doing computer graphics - and even 3D graphics - as far back as 1980 on an Apple II.
Well, when I was working this job in NYC for several years (doing VFP work), during my lunch breaks - I had decided to do a pet project. Because of my intense interest in CG - and I knew that in VFP you could display graphical characters. That's when I decided to do a copy of the BrickOut video game. Because the graphics for that would be simple enough to do. And, I did have a basic version running by the end. Interact purely via keyboard - and the bricks would disappear when hit. But, I didn't get so far as doing any scoring display.
I did want to follow it up by doing a Space Invaders game - but, I never got around to it...
-K
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:
We had a MadFox attendee come ONE TIME and show us his recreation of an RPG done in VFP. It was an impressive start but we wondered why he was doing it in VFP instead of a more suitable language. We never saw him again. I sometimes wonder whatever happened to him or that project...
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM Kurt Wendt kurthwendt@gmail.com wrote:
Wow - that Visual Basic thing is crazy. It looks like a environment
running
on like Windows 3.1 type UI. Or, am I wrong - and it's supposed to be a graphical app running in DOS? I never really did the Visual Basic thing - but, I DID Indeed start way back using BASIC on an Apple II, and then on the original PC-XT machines.
As for that Doom thing - that's just NUTS! I had no idea that PDF files have THAT much interactive capabilities. That being said, is it just me - or does that Doom PDF thing only show a kind of pixelated B&W interface with NO Colors???
Kinda reminds of when I did a basic recreation of the Brick Out game
using
Visual FoxPro - circa 2011...
-Kurt
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:
That's impressive, in the way that playing Doom on an electric
toothbrush
is impressive.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Well sorta.
https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
Anyone want to take a swing at VFP ? :)
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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And, of course, who could forget Calvin’s implementation of Minesweeper in pure VFP code.
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From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2025 12:49 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Visual Basic 6 recreated in the browser with the Avalonia UI framework for .NET
Damn - I can't believe someone did an entire RPG.
So - FYI - a tiny back story for me...
For those that know me - and know I'm a serious 3D Printing guy - I've been doing computer graphics - and even 3D graphics - as far back as 1980 on an Apple II.
Well, when I was working this job in NYC for several years (doing VFP work), during my lunch breaks - I had decided to do a pet project. Because of my intense interest in CG - and I knew that in VFP you could display graphical characters. That's when I decided to do a copy of the BrickOut video game. Because the graphics for that would be simple enough to do. And, I did have a basic version running by the end. Interact purely via keyboard - and the bricks would disappear when hit. But, I didn't get so far as doing any scoring display.
I did want to follow it up by doing a Space Invaders game - but, I never got around to it...
-K
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com wrote:
And, of course, who could forget Calvin’s implementation of Minesweeper in pure VFP code.
"Daring" Dave Aring and his Etch-A-Sketch, too!
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