Hi everyone,
I've recently been working in Visual Foxpro again and while looking around to see if I can improve my workflow I ran across the VFP-Editors and wanted to try them out. I am not exactly sure where to put the files though and what kind of setup needs to be done. I looked at the Editors zip and the Support Files zip but it is not clear to me how to get up and running. Do any of you use these tools, and if so, do you recommend them and/or know how to get them working? Are you guys with active FoxPro projects using anything else for editing or is the best solution to still use the VFP IDE for everything? VFP seems to work pretty well on my Windows 10 Desktop but I can't seem to get things the right size on my laptop. I think it may have something to do with my laptop having a fancy screen with a high dpi. In my perfect world, I think I would use vs code to do all my editing and build with VFP but I do not think that is really possible is it? Thanks in advance for any advice!
Hi Jeff,
I tried to get this working earlier this year. https://leafe.com/archives/full_thread/516219
Matt suggested I reach out on Foxite because that is where the author is active. I never did that. I did respond to one of the Issues on github, and never saw a response from Greggory.
HTH, Tracy
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Roberts Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 9:14 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Help or Opinions on GKKTools / VFP-Editors from ggreen86 from VFPX on github
Hi everyone,
I've recently been working in Visual Foxpro again and while looking around to see if I can improve my workflow I ran across the VFP-Editors and wanted to try them out. I am not exactly sure where to put the files though and what kind of setup needs to be done. I looked at the Editors zip and the Support Files zip but it is not clear to me how to get up and running. Do any of you use these tools, and if so, do you recommend them and/or know how to get them working? Are you guys with active FoxPro projects using anything else for editing or is the best solution to still use the VFP IDE for everything? VFP seems to work pretty well on my Windows 10 Desktop but I can't seem to get things the right size on my laptop. I think it may have something to do with my laptop having a fancy screen with a high dpi. In my perfect world, I think I would use vs code to do all my editing and build with VFP but I do not think that is really possible is it? Thanks in advance for any advice!
I think I would use vs code to do all my editing and build with VFP but I do not think that is really possible is it? Thanks in advance for any advice!
Jeff,
It's doable to an extent with .PRG files. I had a play with it last year. it involved creating a VS Code build task, which in turn ran a VBScript (.vbs) script. The script took the .PRG filename as an argument and created a VFP COM object, then told that to compile the .PRG.
Given the above and the Visual FoxPro syntax highlighting plugin for VS Code, it worked well enough for individual files. However it didn't help with code in visual elements like form classes.
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