In VFP, it’s easy to display a simple image on a form and VFP will take care of scaling the image based on the “Stretch” setting. “0″ will clip the image; “1″ will stretch the image isometrically; “2″ will do a full stretch of the image based on the size of the image control. In [...]

A friend of mine has always wanted a feature in Visual FoxPro that would allow you to click a “Back” or “Forward” button in the IDE that would take you back (or forward) to the last code snippet that you were editing, no matter where it resided. Kinda like a web browser. I’m working in [...]

This story doesn’t really involve code, or applications, or forms, or data. It involves a telephone call and two people talking. Yesterday my phone rang several times from telemarketers. Many of them were automated calls from computers telling me that I’ve qualified for a small business loan. I wonder how I get those to stop? [...]

I’ve started a new project that is to run on Linux and I decided to give REALbasic a try. I’m impressed. A completely integrated working environment along with a debugger. Of course, as with anything, there is the good, the bad and the ugly: The good: Cross platform development. I can reach 99% of all [...]