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Friday, May 27, 2005 11:50 AM

Application logging and Error methods

I have some Fox classes that run in several modes. The normal fox interactive design environment In a runtime Multithreaded DLL from the fox interactive environment In a runtime Multithreaded DLL from within a client application (like windows explorer)
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:58 PM

Activation Key

Remember the old days when downloading a large file was a rare occurrence and your modem was the size of a box of Girl Scout Cookies? About 20 years ago you could dial up a bulletin board and start a download of some software. Come back an hour later
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:50 PM

Binding to Internet Explorer events: bug in Typelibrary

I was using the web browser control and getting some errors when binding to its events. This can be duplicated with the code below. To generate the event class, open the object browser (Tools->Object Browser) and select the Microsoft Web Browser Control.
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Monday, May 16, 2005 12:16 PM

What's the difference between Internet Explorer and Explorer?

From the navigate bar of either, you can type a web URL like www.msn.com or a local file path like “c:\Windows” In this post I showed how VFP can use the web browser control easily. Try opening a few instances of IE and a couple of Windows Explorer, then
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Monday, May 16, 2005 1:10 AM

Word to audible speech

Here’s some interesting code to run. It starts Microsoft Word and binds some Fox code to some Word events. Type some text into the document. Select some text. When the Selection Change event occurs, the Foxpro code creates the speech API object and speaks
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Monday, May 09, 2005 12:23 PM

Your VFP runtime splash screen

A customer asked the following: “When VFP starts wee see it's splash screen almost immediately after the mouseclick, then it disappears when VFP is finished starting up. If I develop a splash screen in my Fox app it shows after the runtime is in memory,
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Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:57 PM

Put your registry into a table

It’s pretty easy to use Foxpro to examine the registry. Here’s some simple recursive code I whipped up to put registry keys into a table. # define HKCU BITSET ( 0 , 31 )+ 1 CLEAR LOCAL oreg as "registry" OF HOME ()+"samples\classes\registry.prg" *cPath="Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\9.0"
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