Outlook2003Bar control is part of VFPX now!
As everybody can see in my previous posts, from July I start to develop a control (entirely written in VFP) with the same look and feel of the Microsoft Outlook 2003 shortcut bar.
After some days developing, I've posted a beta version of control, waiting for a feedback from VFP community.
With a positive feedback, I start to improve the control and, after one month (in August), the control was completed.
Again, I've posted the control and publish them in a famous site about VFP.
With a great repercussion, the control was downloaded more than 3.000 times!
From the beggining, the only intent, was contribute with VFP community, by the fact that this community always help me.
So, to make the control more notorious and share his code with the community, I've submitted the project to VFPX managers.
VFPX is an effort from VFP community (mentioned in a monthly letter from VFP development team manager) to create open source "add-ins", complementing Microsoft efforts with Sedna code named project, to extend VFP9 functionalities.
The project was approved and receive a lot of recommendations from VFPX managers (community famous members: Craig Boyd, Doug Hennig and Rick Schummer) for your simple usage and polishedness.
Now, Outlook2003Bar control is part of VFPX and every member can suggest, test, report bugs and participate in development!
Recommendations:
Thanks for doing such a fine job on the Outlook 2003-styled Listbar.
It's very polished and it is simple to use (given your use of pageframe and pages with just a few simple properties to set).
I look forward to seeing more of your work.
I am quite impressed.
Craig Boyd (SweetPotato Software CEO, Inc. and VFPX manager)
We think you and your team will do some really great things with this project, and provide a great deal of value for the Visual FoxPro Community.
Rick Schummer (VFPX manager)
O projeto "Outlook2003Bar" do nosso colega Emerson Santon Reed acaba de ser aprovado e incluído ao VFP-X.
Isso confirma a excelente idéia e ótima qualidade na execução do projeto que o Emerson lidera, ratificando todos os elogios que a classe tem recebido.
Estando no VFP-X, garante visibilidade ao projeto, abrindo-o para receber a contribuição da comunidade.
Parabéns Emerson !
César Chalom (Member of VFPX team and FoxBrasil user group)
Links:
A Visual FoxPro Community effort to create open source add-ons for Visual FoxPro 9.0. The code, classes, and libraries made available here will complement Microsoft's continuing efforts to improve and extend Visual FoxPro with the code named Sedna project which is outlined at http://msdn.com/vfoxpro/roadmap
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