To Boldly go Where no VFP'er Has Gone Before—the Tools of Thor - Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents a Southwest Fox Rehearsal:
1) "To Boldly go Where no VFP'er Has Gone Before—the Tools of Thor (Session I and 2)", by Jim Nelson.
There are a number of valuable tools that are available in other development environments, but are sadly lacking in FoxPro's own IDE. For some time, there has been a considerable effort afoot to expand the list of IDE tools by reproducing (where possible) the tools from other IDEs (such as Visual Studio), by building on and enhancing existing tools, and by creating brand new tools appropriate to FoxPro.
The most visible of these new tools is named Thor. Thor is a tool for managing add-on tools in the IDE. It provides a unified method for registering other tools, simplifying the task of disseminating them, and a user interface to control the assignment of hot keys and developer-defined menus. The UI provides four different methods for accessing these tools:
-By assigning hot keys to them
-By creating pop-up menus accessible via hot keys
-By adding them as bars under any of the VFP system pads (File, Edit, View, etc.)
-By creating new pads in the VFP system menu and adding them as bars under these new pads
Unlike the normal limited set of hot keys available from ON KEY LABEL, Thor provides for the full range of multiple-keystroke combinations (Ctrl + Alt + A, for instance).
More details here:
http://www.swfox.net/sessions.aspx
2) Anything else people want to talk about.
We are always looking for volunteers and topics.
Meeting Place
Holiday Inn Express - Southfield
25100 Northwestern HWY
Southfield, MI 48075
Small Meeting Room on 1st Floor
Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
-September 8, 2011 Double Header
--"Programming Standards and Guidelines for Software Craftsmanship" - Southwest Fox Rehearsal by Rick Schummer
--"VFP Version Control with Mercurial" - Southwest Fox Rehearsal by Rick Borup
-October 13, 2011 "Want: More Processing Speed!" - Southwest Fox Rehearsal by Jody Meyer
-November 17, 2011 "Data Visualization" by David Giard
Mary Pilon, Secretary for DAFUG