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The day before yesterday I was surfing my blogroll and came across an interesting post by Calvin Hsia — “Enable crop and zooming in on your digital photograph display form“. It was using GDI+ in a Visual FoxPro form and, since I am writing a series of articles for FoxTalk on the subject, it caught my eye. One of the […]

A number of other languages have a splitter control of some sort, why not Visual FoxPro? To be fair, I have seen some splitter classes floating around from time to time, but I thought I’d try my hand at it. I was convinced it couldn’t be too difficult, and Visual FoxPro didn’t disappoint me. Below is a download link for […]

The ReportPreview.app is a pretty good general preview application for Visual FoxPro 9. The look of it mimics the report preview screen we had prior to Visual FoxPro 9 and it provides much of the same functionality as well as some new features available in Visual FoxPro 9 thrown in for good measure. However, some Visual FoxPro developers are having […]

The ability for BindEvent to hook into windows message events in Visual FoxPro 9 is great. It is no doubt wrapping the SetWindowLong API function somewhere in the source and facilitates the magic by subclassing the target window. My hat goes off to the Fox Team for coming up with this. But, what if you want to modify a messagebox before […]

As my younger brother Daniel was reading my weblog tonight, he messaged me and told me that the “poker spam comments on your weblog are bogus”. One of the online casinos had obviously thought that my blog might make a good place to advertise. So, I’ve taken this opportunity to not only clean up the spam, but also update to […]

A couple of recent blog entries, a letter from the Editor concerning Visual FoxPro, and a fairly hard-hitting interview… is today Christmas? First, I owe thanks to Alex Feldstein’s Blog for a heads up that Ken Levy’s August 2005 – Letter from the Editor for Visual FoxPro has been published. Then reading a recent blog entry by David Stevenson, I […]