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  • Change the shape of your pictures with GdiPlusX

    The samples below use the Graphics.SetClip function to draw shaped borders in your pictures. The trick here is to use the CombineMode.XOR enumeration, that forces the drawing to the external part of the shape, like in the samples below. Playing with...
    07-01-2009, 6:46 by VFP IMAGING
  • prague day 3

    After last nights dinner I went to bed but hardly could sleep. Up at 5 for the last day. Yesterday I had a session on software protection. Not all things went as good as I wished. So this morning I did work on the loose ends because I had the same session...
    06-25-2009, 13:37 by Boudewijn Lutgerink
  • Prague day 2

    Day 2 in Praha. Day 1 of the DevCon. I had two session today, one on the VFPCompiler and one on the NetExtender The Compiler session was visited by 60 people, the extnder session was visited by 30 people. All in all it was quite an experience to speak...
    06-23-2009, 17:16 by Boudewijn Lutgerink
  • Prague day 1

    Up at 3 in the morning to catch a plane at 7 is beyond human efforts for me, but I did it. Right now I am in my hotelroom, looking out over a street and a small park playground. Plane took off at 7:05 exact and landed 1h 10mins later at Ruzyne (the...
    06-22-2009, 9:53 by Boudewijn Lutgerink
  • Our DevTeach Experience Follow-Up

    I have one more point to add in respect of our Vancouver DevTeach experience in June of this year. If you read my blog last week you will know that I had a complaint about the lack of conference materials in general and specifically that: There was also...
    06-21-2009, 14:34 by Andy Kramek
  • Found WMI Snippets #1 - WIN32_PingStatus

    This is a more-or-less complete implementation of the WMI class WIN32_PingStatus in VFP.This class has some more platform restrictions as well as not being available in Windows 2000 or 95 or 98:Starting with Windows Vista, Win32_PingStatus can return...
    06-21-2009, 1:26 by fox weblog
  • Creating Data Driven Pop-Up menus in VFP

    One of the little tools that Marcia and I use all the time when working in VFP is a pop-up menu generator that allows us to select a development environment easily and quickly. Yes, we know all about the Task Pane but personally I have always found that...
    06-20-2009, 17:38 by Andy Kramek
  • Sorting the Grid by Header Clicking Asc / Dec

    In a recent thread about sorting a grid by clicking its headers, I explained a procedure to do that. I think posting it in my blog could be useful for others.the thread post is here.I improved the code and there is a link below to download a sample form.You...
    06-19-2009, 17:48 by Ammar Hadi
  • The First Visual FoxPro Programmers Group in Iraq

    I would be happy to announce to my friends here in foxite and in Iraq that I am working to accomplish the first Visual FoxPro Programmers Group in Iraq. In fact, I can say it will be the first programmers group in Iraq.  It was my dream to build...
    06-17-2009, 22:30 by Ammar Hadi
  • Our Vancouver Devteach Experience

    You may have noticed the blog has been quiet for a couple of weekends. This is because Marcia and I have been out of town to attend the DevTeach conference in Vancouver. As regular readers of this blog will know, I have for many years extolled the virtues...
    06-13-2009, 14:39 by Andy Kramek
  • The Cost/Time/Content Triangle

    The Cost/Time/Content Triangle is a simple way of representing the rather complex (not to say confusing) interaction between the three key components of any IT project - Cost, Time and Scope.  It provides a mechanism for visualising the effect of...
    05-30-2009, 17:36 by Andy Kramek
  • Finding the length of a string in a specific font

    One of the things that I often found myself doing when working in VFP was trying to decide how large a textbox had to be in order to accommodate the maximum length of the data that was permitted for its underlying source given a specific font and size....
    05-19-2009, 0:49 by Andy Kramek
  • Dynamic Flexible Invoice Report

    Hello my friends ...I would like to publish my first weblog post about a method I use to modify the report I use to print invoices.In this method I get benefit from 2 of the properties of report objects that is: Comment and User data in the tab of report...
    05-13-2009, 3:37 by Ammar Hadi
  • Modeling Lookup Tables

    One topic that caught my eye on the Foxite forum recently was a discussion of how to implement Lookup Tables. Like many such questions it provoked strong opinions and definitive statements of the "Thou shalt ...." type (i.e. the type of "dogmatic logic"...
    05-10-2009, 13:59 by Andy Kramek
  • Controlling the Panels from within....

    I am about to embark on a new journey which is to focus upon Server installation and Maintenance and some other non-developing matters.  And I don't know if during those times I will still have the same opportunity as I have these days to share ideas...
    05-07-2009, 6:33 by Jun Tangunan
  • Working with Vertical Tables

    What is a "Vertical Table"? The short answer is that a vertical table is one which does not store data elements in separate columns. Instead data is stored in rows, with each row containing a description of what is being stored (the “attribute”) and the...
    05-03-2009, 16:18 by Andy Kramek
  • Am I being too persistent?

    Persistent: lasting or enduring tenaciously, remaining beyond the period, retained.... Since discovering two Native VFP functions, i.e., STRTOFILE() and FILETOSTR(); it became among my favorites as can be seen on Live Backup Revealed source codes. ...
    05-02-2009, 1:12 by Jun Tangunan
  • Live Backup Revealed...

    For those who requested the source codes and also for those who don't. ...
    04-29-2009, 4:35 by Jun Tangunan
  • One app, many faces

    Since VFPSkins is no longer available I have been looking for other ways to skin the beloved fox. I found a way. Pretty soon I will show the code and make this available to all of you. All we need now is some creative minds that can create other skins....
    04-27-2009, 23:58 by Boudewijn Lutgerink
  • Modeling Hierarchies (Part 2)

    In the last article I gave the theoretical background to using mapping to model complex hierarchies. In this article I will work through an example that is intended to illustrate how the use of the mapping approach can solve some of the key issues associated...
    04-25-2009, 15:50 by Andy Kramek
  • Circular Gauge chart with GdiPlusX

    Drawing shapes with GdiPlusX is super easy, and we can very easilly transport this to solve some of our chart needs. In this post I'm sending you a very primitive sample for creating Circular Gauge charts. Obviously I hope to apply the techniques shown...
    04-24-2009, 5:28 by VFP IMAGING
  • GDI+X Pad gets an update with added functionality and tutorial

    After some testing and additional functionality programmed in, I have decided to release this new version of the GDI+X Pad - v1.35. There are a number of enhancements to it, to enable it to be easier to use, which I will list here: 1. The Error...
    04-24-2009, 4:47 by Bernard Bout
  • ala Silverlight revealed....

    I don't know if the word "ala" is universally accepted but it means "like a", and so "like a Silverlight".  This is actually in no way related to the famed Microsoft's Silverlight Technology.  But when I decided to change my style for the nth...
    04-22-2009, 0:50 by Jun Tangunan
  • Modeling Hierarchies (Part 1)

    As a computer users, we deal with hierarchies every day and working with relational data involves hierarchical relationships of varying degrees of complexity from the simple parent-child-grandchild (e.g. Customer -> Order -> Item) to very complex...
    04-18-2009, 14:21 by Andy Kramek
  • Right-Click among other things...

    I am using this style before in showing the reports available and in switching branches, and on anything I can think of which this can be used. But then I always experiment with a lot of styles and in my ala Silverlight blog you can see me using Treeview...
    04-18-2009, 2:08 by Jun Tangunan
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