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SpinnerX (New), FaderX (Enhancement) & Others
I was creating this before but got busy with simultaneous projects. But since I wanted to give some more feature for FaderX as I need it, then I decided to utilize this now instead of VFP's Native...
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CtrlBox New Features
Brief HistoryOriginally CtrlBox is intended solely as a slave of my TitleBarX class when I decided to experiment with shapes for the controls there (minimize, maximize/restore, and close). Later I...
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xBox via SQL Pass-Through and Stored Procedures
Since xBox was created while I am still working with pure VFP, the approach I did was designed to work only on VFP's native backend. So to have something like this:You have to put in its...
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SwitchX/OptionSwitchX Bold New Themes
Since I adjusted the library to make it more flexible, I decided to replace some themes with bolder new look to spice up further our app. And here are the latest themes for both classesThis and other...
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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...
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dtPickerX - December 2017 version
Okay, so I changed some things (again) inside, for the better. And aside from listing what those are here, I decided to make this post as the official guide post for dtPickerX class too. So what are...
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Alter Table Trick
Okay so it is now 2018 and I want to greet every one a more prosperous new year than before. I am now back at work and immediately I got a request from a Colleague to create a small app that can...
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Google Calendar on VFP Form
Well, this comes from a request inside Foxite on how we can embed Google Calendar on form. Being foxy, I originally pointed to the late Guillermo Carrero's FoxScheduler instead:...
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GridX Class
Imagine yourself designing a grid and saying to yourself "it looks awesome, they will definitely love this!", then installing it on your clients' units then receiving complaints from some users such as...
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ExcelExport New Enhancements
1. New property named Automation. If you set it up to .T., it will seed excel via pure automation on a cell per cell basis. This is so we do not need to perform CAST() anymore on memo fields. It...
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ssUltimate May 1, 2018 release
DtPickerx. DtPeriodPer request of one subscriber (Patrick Bibro)1. Added _ShowNotes property. When this is set to .F., the adding of notes will be disabled as well as the colored shapes below the...
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Enhanced ImageCapture (an Imaging Capturing Tool)
I am currently working on a new project where I needed to capture images again for the Sellers to be used on their ID and on forms, so I fished out ImageCapture.prgwhich Gelson L. Bremmshared to us:...
View ArticleGrabbing UNC path from a Mapped Drive
I am among those who stores only the fullpath() of the outside files into a field as I do not want to store the actual files inside the tables as that will make the tables huge as time goes by.I am...
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CtrlBox on Left Side
Since some are using Arabic/Urdu which deals with the right-to-left reading and data entry, then this trick might be useful to them. Which is to transpose too the position of the ControlBox of...
View ArticleEnumerating Path Links and Installed Apps
A friend requested for my assistance as they were recently hit by a ransomware so he wants to reformat all machines. But before that, since there are around 60 machines to be reformatted, he wants to...
View ArticleIE inside the Form
Unlike with placing internet explorer browser inside our form via Internet Explorer Shell, this is similar to my other blogs of opening the URL directly on a browser like Chrome and Firefox, capturing...
View ArticleDrag, Drop and Restrict
I have just read a problem inside foxite where when a user accidentally moves the mouse beyond the form boundaries, then drag and drop fails because the objects disappear on the areas beyond the form....
View ArticleVFPA, the way forward for VFP Lovers!
Some of us (including yours truly) finds it very hard to move away from VFP. Not because I can’t learn a new language but the moment I started trying to learn a new one, my mind always compares the...
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Backup Progress, How?
I have been wondering how to do this as we need to allow users to perform backup and give them a good estimate on when said backup will be completed; as in my end where the database is external...
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