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xBox, How To..
xBox' Usage, Explained FurtherxBox is among my most complicated classes to date due to the fact that I have given this three (3) possible usage. And a new user is getting confused with it that I...
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Going Barefoot, Health Benefits
Lately I observed that whenever I take a shower, while wet and I reached for the shower knob, I always receives a minor electric jolt, not too much but still disturbing. When I reported that to my...
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Encapsulating Popup Calls Within Forms
One of my dissatisfaction when creating a popup shortcut via Define Popup and later On Selection Popup or On Selection Bar commands is its insistence of not accepting Thisform reference. Something...
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xBox (a Textbox Control class)
Release 4Made the appearance cleaner by imitating a plain textbox so when you resize on form during design time, you will see the borders cleanlyFixed seeding initial Value via PEMAdded seeding via...
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Enumerate and Kill Selected Windows Processess
A question inside Foxite was raised yesterday requesting for a way to kill selected Windows processeses using API calls as what we normally use is the scripting way. And googling around, there are...
View ArticleShellExecute, Force open file to non-default application
As most of us know, ShellExecute() is a very useful tool to open a file on its external associated application. When you issue this command:Local lcFilelcFile = Getfile('doc,docx')If !Empty(m.lcFile)...
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Tick/Untick a checkbox on Grid with AllowCellSelection = .F.
Normally, when we want to put a checkbox on grid for the purpose of ticking and unticking it, then most probably most of you do it this way:Set AllowCellSelection = .T.Drill to every textbox object...
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TitleBarX Class
* Updates February 2, 2015Added NoMax property to hide Max Button. This should not be confused with _noMax property which simply disables the max buttonAdded NoMin property to hide Minimum ButtonAdded...
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Accurate Age Calculator
I never gave thought to calculating an age of a person in terms of years, months and days. But since I read a thread in Foxite pertaining to such need, then I decided to find out how hard it really is....
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xBox with Dropdown Grid
Updates 2/10/2015Added optional sort of tooltip guide containing the internal caption via _withGuide property (default is .T. or shown). I realized that with the class relying on internal caption, it...
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xBox October 2015 release
Its been a long time that I have not done any intensive developing but last week I decided to try to resume my mood on it. Finally, yesterday my mood somewhat returned and so after a long time, I...
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What’s on ssUltimate Library
What’s on ssUltimate Library Now?During these past months, some people are showing interest in ssUltimate Library. And finally after receiving several email enquiries, I decided to create a demo...
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Controlling Windows 10 Auto-Updates
I bought a laptop a few months ago with a licensed Windows 8.1 OS. But since a colleague of mine was able to download an offline Windows 10 free upgrade and burned it into a CD, then immediately after...
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DTPickerX (new)
So what is this latest class that is also now part of ssUltimate?DTPickerX is a unique DateTime picker. Unique in its look and unique in its functions. Right now it has three levels via nLevel...
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Popup Calculator
I was popped yesterday by a fellow developer who showed me his form using ssDropCalc saying he is very satisfied with ssClasses library. Thinking that others are really using said class, I decided to...
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CalendarX
This is based on my DTPickerX's idea of a faster date navigation/selection. Have 3 return values:.Value = date value._bom = Beginning of Month._eom = End of MonthUse Click event to perform other...
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ProgBarX
A simple progress bar which I created to replace the WAIT WINDOWs I put in ExcelPivot and ExcelExport classes. Late last week, I decided to add more features onto it so its usage can go beyond those...
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ExcelExport
This is the counterpart of ssToExcel2 of ssClasses. Unlike ExcelPivot, this one simply transfers your cursor/table into excel with added formats, titles, etc. An example is a ledger as shown at the...
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APPEND FROM fails on Memo (VFP)
It appears that APPEND FROM command has an undocumented behaviour which is it cannot transfer its values into a Memo Field. So in cases where you want to append data from say a csv, text or other...
View ArticleWhy I am never a Loyalist (a Political Issue)
While I do not want to involve politics on my blog, I will make an exception for these thoughts; hoping it can reach more of my countrymen.I am not a loyalist, never was and never will be, even with...
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