Thinking Outside the Box
thanks to the urging by craig bailey and eric kindly providing the web space, i've decided to bite the bullet and get blogging. the projects at work are keeping me very busy since i am exploring new...
View ArticleI’m blogging at last "- outside the box"
thanks to the urging by craig bailey and eric kindly providing the web space, i've decided to bite the bullet and get blogging. the projects at work are keeping me very busy since i am exploring new...
View ArticleThe Scrollable Viewport Part II – I dump the API’s. Look Mama I can Click!
continuing the saga of the "perfect" viewport. as anyone who has read my previous blog about the scrollable view port knows, if you start moving the parent window around, funky things happen. basically...
View ArticleThe Scrollable Viewport Part III – Malcolm keeps me on my toes
after solving the problem of the funky behaviour of the scroll bar in this post i was ready for new pastures. but my pal malcolm would not let up. how is your scrollbar class handling the following...
View ArticleWith VFP its Perception – Make it cool.
its all in the perception craig bailey on his blog talks about how to make vfp look cool. as he says, its all in the mind – perception - vfp is xbase and is old technology, vfp controls look dated...
View ArticleRecreating OneNoteTabs in VFP9
onenotetabs(ont) in visual foxpro the techniques involved with making these tabs are simple and straight forward. since i use no api’s , to achieve the gradient effect requires a bitmap, one for each...
View ArticleVisual Foxpro does Glass!
the windows vista cpt is out and is being downloaded desperately by whoever has the bandwidth. one of the "eye candy" items of vista themes is something called glass forms. when applied, it gives an...
View ArticleVFP is very very cool
it’s all smoke & mirrors gone are the days of staid grey forms and controls. now screens need to have visual appeal as well as functionality. microsoft started the trend by designing the outlook...
View ArticleTransparent Forms in Visual FoxPro Revealed
how it is done my previous post was purposely vague as i wanted to stir some interest. just describing the method used to achieve the effect would have been easy but would have ended the interest...
View ArticleUsing the Alpha Channel in Visual Foxpro Images
using the alpha channel in png images can result in some very interesting and pleasing effects. i have been working on some pseudo forms using alpha channel masks in png images with some very pleasing...
View ArticleVisual Foxpro shows its Glass!
vista is almost upon us with its new api’s and aero glass theme. it has already been shown that vfp can run in vista and craig boyd has shown here how to achieve some of the glass effects of aero in a...
View ArticleAdd Glass XP Widgets to your Visual Foxpro Screens
google, yahoo, vista have all got them. now so has visual foxpro and you. i am talking about those little apps called widgets that you can use to clutter your screen with. using png graphics that are...
View ArticleEmbed Your Images
it has always been a problem for me to have to include images for each class as an external file. not only is file access slow, but vfp has an irritating way of displaying the hourglass cursor every...
View ArticleOzFox2007 – Get(Objx) more productive
i am back from an extremely intense ozfox 2007 and i must say it was very well organised by craig bailey of talman. it was great to meet other vfp users from australia and overseas and put faces to...
View ArticleEmbed II – The Smart VFP Treeview Class
in a previous post titled embed your images, i described how you can embed images into a class. well in this post i will show you a better way to embed those images as well as a configuration file...
View ArticleA Visual Foxpro Animated Zoombar Class
the zoombar class from the first time i saw this class here http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/bubblebar.html i liked it a lot. only problem was it was in .net and not vfp and i did not want all...
View ArticleZoombar with Reflections
adding reflections to the bbzoombar class. over the holidays, i have done some additional enhancements to the bbzoombar class. wouldn’t it be nice to have the icons reflected on the bar, with the...
View ArticleLightBox Class – More with embedded PNG’s
a lightbox dialog technique in vfp you may or may not have heard of the lightbox dialog ui effect. it is one of the current effects making the rounds, and has been described as the "interaction design...
View ArticleA Visual Foxpro DataRepeater Class
this is a control that will display your data in a repeated sequence. unlike a normal grid, this control can show multiple lines from the same record, thus giving you the ability to display data in a...
View ArticleVFP Lightbox Class – Now Activex Friendly
in my earlier post i showed a lightbox class done in vfp. mike s posed a problem: i've got one issue with it when placed on a vfp form that contains an activex control (ms webbrowser). the lightbox is...
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