Chicago FUDG's June meeting will feature a remote presentation from Jim Nelson -- the famous VFPX tool developer. Jim will outline the efforts 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, a tool for managing add-on tools in the IDE. He will start the session by showing how to install and start using Thor, how to use its UI to assign hot keys and create menus and submenus, and how to use Thor to simplify access to your own private tools. He'll also delve into some of the more interesting details on how Thor works.

Using Thor as the backbone for the remainder of the session, we will explore some published tools that can be made accessible in Thor. You will find that these tools will rapidly become indispensable in your day-to-day VFP programming life.

There is a lengthy list of tools that will be covered, including the following: GoToDefinition, GoToDefinition #2, BeautifyX, Comparing objects with other objects or their parent class etc., Using the Format form, which provides enhanced options to the Format pad in the VFP system menu, and many, many more.

A bonus (if time permits): he will explore the two objects exposed by PEM Editor which can be used when building tools and demonstrate how they can be used to reproduce some of the simpler tools from PEM Editor as well as some of the tools available from VFP's context menu for code windows.

Location is Tech Nexus, 200 S. Wacker Suite 1500. Time is 5:30 pm. Date is Tuesday, 14 June 2011. RSVP here: http://j.mp/iTTbNp More details at http://www.ChicagoFUDG.com