Foxite Community Weblog of Bernard Bout

If you are like me, over the years you would have accumulated a large number of files.

I had run out of disk space on my desktop long ago and rather than install an internal drive, I opted for an external USB driven disk of 3TB size.

Disk space is cheap now as compared to before. My first HD was a 20 MB drive for $650. I can buy a complete computer now for that amount and have some change over.

Anyway I have a large number of media files on this external drive - Movies, TV shows, Songs, Tutorial… Continue reading →

Earlier I had published 2 articles that described Windows 8 Live tiles

The original Article and the Update1

I had also published an Easing Library for VFP which used Robert Penner's Easing Functions converted by me for use in VFP. Since I liked those easing functions, I decided to put them in a class and add them to the Windows 8 Tiles project so that the Win8 Live tiles now have Easing. Here is the sample below.(excuse the blurred colours. That is because GIF's have only 256 colours)

I have added the easing Functions Library as a class in the… Continue reading →

I have always looked at other programming languages, especially .Net WPF forms and admired the Easing that was available for those controls. In VFP that seemed impossible.

Not any more. Enter the Easing Library of functions for VFP. If you don't know what Easing is, then have a read here

Also, to better visually understand what is meant by easing, have a look at this page where you can try out the different easing functions available. You need to do this to understand what easing is and what it can bring to your apps. No static image can ever illustrate… Continue reading →

Hi Guys

I have just updated the Windows8 Live tiles with 2 new tiles.

The new tiles consist of an user defined image that slides left/right to reveal some user defined text. This is what the tile could look like initially. This is the Slide Left tile.

When you mouse over, the tile slides Left or Right depending on the class selected and will look like the image below. This is the Slide Right tile of the  Slide Right class.   The SlideLeft class (shown above)  is subclassed from this class.

I have not added any custom properties… Continue reading →

I quite like the idea of "Live Tiles" on an application desktop a-la-Windows 8 (Metro). It gives your user up-to-date feedback in an animated tile of whatever information you choose to display.

For this post I created three different types of Live Tiles. All tiles are clickable so you can put any code you want into the click() method. All tiles are 310x150 px in size

1. The Rollover Tile

This tile allows you to display an image of 310x150 px as well as a text message that can be anything you choose. As the user moves the… Continue reading →

Ever since it was first introduced, I have hated the fact that most applications insisted on installing stuff in my c:\Program Files folder. Some gave me the option of choosing another location but most, especially Microsoft Applications, like SQLServer and others, did not give this option and  insisted on putting everything in my C: drive.

When I bought my present computer it came with an 80 Gig HD which at that time was sufficient. I also added another drive of 250 Gigs as my D: drive and most of my apps are stored here.

Unfortunately over time the C:… Continue reading →

Guys, its been a while since I last posted.

Anyway this is not about VFP but about webapps and HTML5.

Mozilla have been working on "Open Web Apps" - an open app store platform - throughout this year, and recently launched the Firefox Marketplace.

Currently there are only a few titles here and they only work on Firefox for Android which means Desktop and other Browsers will not work -or will they.

So I decided to check this out for myself.

There are a few things you will need first but everything is free.

1. If you haven't yet done… Continue reading →