I received a call from a VFP programmer yesterday. Someone that I had never met or talked with before, but they found my blog on my Converter from Visual Foxpro to Real Studio (now known as Xojo). We spoke on the phone for about 40 minutes. He had been examining… Read more »
I’ve been thinking a lot of random strings lately. Notice that this isn’t about generating a UUID. I just wanted to generate a reasonably random string. Originally I had need for a user ‘typable’ string. I get really frustrated by the CAPTCHA strings when they include the ambiguous characters of… Read more »
Hello Visual Foxpro Programmers, Here’s an update to the ‘Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter’. I’ve just released version 0.2Beta. There are numerous updates including: The Real Studio project now properly identifies the forms as belonging to the project. More controls are converted such as the Option Groups and Image… Read more »
I love Visual Foxpro. Let me throw that out there right now and right up front. Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t going to continue to develop Visual Foxpro and official support is scheduled to end in 2015. Sure, there will be VFP applications that continue to run for years to come. But,… Read more »
I recently upgraded my test laptop from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04 with the new Unity interface. I’m going to take this laptop to the Detroit Area Users Group for a demonstration of Real Studio and I thought I’d demonstrate it on the latest and greatest Ubuntu. A small problem… Read more »
Rick Schummer reached out to me and asked me if I would speak to the Detroit Area Foxpro Users Group. I was delighted to accept that offer. I didn’t want to make the announcement before Rick did so … mum was the word. The announcement went out so I can… Read more »
This morning I was looking around for how to adjust the font for a row of sales figures in a listbox. I wanted the refunds to show in red italic, and the regular records to show in the default black font. Luckily REAL Studio makes this easy … as long… Read more »
I’ve recently taken my Windows 7 laptop and installed Ubunto 10.10 64 bit Linux in a dual boot configuration. Sweet. All of that delicious RAM available. While setting it up, one of the tools I have to install is REAL Studio (REALbasic). Well, the DEB file says it won’t install… Read more »
Just some small bug fixes for this release. Someday I’ll get to the bigger features that the fans have requested. ctEggTimer v1.6 for Winders ctEggTimer v1.6 for Linux
I’ve always been inspired by the power of regular expressions … it’s just that I’ve never really needed them for anything extensive. I could always hack my way around the simple string replacements in the programming language I was using. Today was different, however. I am working on an application… Read more »
