Cathy Knight: OutFox the VFP Report Writer, Rick Schummer: How Craig Boyd Continues Making Me a Hero - Thursday, October 11th, 2012 at 18h00
Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) Double Header:
1) "OutFox the VFP Report Writer - Printing on My Terms" by Cathy Knight of Memorial Business Systems (Southwest Fox rehearsal)
The Visual FoxPro Report Writer has great power, but sometimes you need to print reports slightly different than the native behavior. In this session I'll show you how to use the VFP ReportListener object, combined with API calls, to extend the way you print reports. You'll learn how to print from the previewer WITHOUT closing the preview window. You'll also learn many more techniques such as printing two pages per sheet so you can bind the report as a booklet.
You will learn:
-How to print selected pages without closing the previewer
-How to print multiple copies, collated and non-collated
-How to print multiple pages on one sheet
-How to print booklets
-How to offer a "shrink to fit" feature
2) "How Craig Boyd Continues Making Me a Hero!" by Rick Schummer of White Light Computing, Inc. (Southwest Fox rehearsal)
Craig Boyd is one of the most generous developers in the Fox Community. Over the years his blog has included many posts where he delivers a cool FLL file that extends the functionality of a VFP application, or straight VFP code with numerous benefits, which make me look like a hero to my customers. This session picks up from last year's presentation on this topic, demonstrating more code and more features Craig makes available to the community.
Do you want your installs to have the professional manifest file for Vista and Windows 7 installs so your customers do not get the "untrusted" application message? Have you ever wanted your applications to go look for a more recent version and automatically have it updated? Have third-party applications requested data or provided data to you in JSON format and you need some code to work with it? Wouldn't it be great if you could use Windows Search in your custom application to be able to search for something on a computer? Have trouble coming up with a licensing scheme to protect the intellectual property you worked so hard on?
This session is going to go through some more of Craig's best FLLs and other tools, show you what they do and how you implement them, and how simple it is for you to look like a hero too.
You might learn:
-AppUpdater
-JSON Class Library
-Windows Desktop Search (Foxy Search)
-Visual FoxPro Random License/Serial Generator
-Backups for VFP Databases
-Vista/Win7 Progress Bar
-Skinning a VFP Form
3) Anything else people want to talk about.
Are you interested in presenting to DAFUG? Show off something cool in software development you believe your peers might be interested in hearing about? We are always looking for volunteers and topics.
Hope to see you at:
Comfort Suites
24977 Northwestern Highway
Southfield, MI 48076
Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
-November 15, 2012 TBD
-December 13, 2012 TBD
Mary Pilon, Secretary for DAFUG