I'm doing an extensive series for FoxTalk regarding GDI+ and VFP. The first article will be in the August issue and I believe it will also be made available for free to the community. It deals with the basics of drawing on a VFP form with GDI+, including an effective double-buffering technique. It's just the start, and once everyone is warmed up then the second article will blow doors off (guaranteed). I'll be submitting the second article to David Stevenson sometime today. Then I'll begin working on the third article in the series. By the time I'm done, there should be very little that is not known or accessible to VFP developers when it comes to GDI+. This series of GDI+ articles and another one (different topic) I'm doing for FoxPro Advisor is the reason behind this blog entry (well sort of)...
I've been somewhat quiet about GDI+ and VFP for the last couple months (out on the forums), because most of the stuff I would be able to post would come from the code I'm working on for the articles and that's not allowed under most, if not all, publishing contracts. It's been really difficult for me to hold a bunch of stuff back like this. I do like having the opportunity to have my stuff published, but it's been a big change for me. For years now, I've written cool code and been able to instantly thrust it into the public domain. What I haven't placed in the public domain has been making its way into my website www.vfpcode.com which should be ready for primetime by the end of this year (when I'll open up the registration for the VFP Community - and yes, VFP Code will be free and stay that way). Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to VFP's visibility that quality articles are written for the industry rags, and I'm trying to do my part. I'm just not use to the lag time between when I've figured something out to when I can let everyone know about it.
I absolutely burn to give stuff away to the VFP Community and promote one of the greatest languages on earth. It's an itch that needs to be scratched and while my forum posts, and latest SPS Blog entries on VFP Email, have helped, it's just not enough. So, here are 603 GDI+ DECLARE statements that I've translated, and rest assured that I'll be going through examples of how to use many of them in my FoxTalk series.
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