Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter – 0.2beta
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 Controls The method code for [...]
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Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter – 0.1beta
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, where do you go when [...]
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Real Studio not ready for Ubuntu 11.04 … yet.
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 however. No graphic images show [...]
Tags: 11.04, Graphics, Images, REAL Studio, Ubuntu
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Speaking at DAFUG on 12 May 2011
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 now blab all I want! [...]
Tags: Apple, Linux, Mac, REAL Studio, realbasic, VFP, Visual Foxpro, Windows
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REAL Studio – Listbox Font
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 as you know where to [...]
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Installing REAL Studio on 64bit Linux
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 because it isn’t 32bit Linux. [...]
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ctEggTimer – Version 1.6 released
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
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RegEx fun in Real Studio
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 that needs to validate a [...]
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That darned libstdc++.so.5 file
I recently purchased some plugins to help with a development project I’m working on. Well, to register and decrypt the plugins, I had to run an application that required the libstdc++.so.5 library which has long been deprecated. I found some help from the following web site however: http://bootstrapping.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/missing-libstdc-so-5-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic/ Here’s the magic to get this to [...]
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CULLYTech ctEggTimer v1.5 Released!
I skipped over version 1.4 and I’m jumping right to version 1.5. I’d like to thank the many of the users of the timer and the suggestions that have been pouring in. I couldn’t get to them all for this release but I’m pleased with where it is right now. The major enhancement is the [...]
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