Meeting Agenda
Tuesday October 12th, 1999
Beginning Lewis Keim Conducting
6:00 - 6:10 PM Mayhem reduction Announcements
6:00 - 6:05 PM: Rich Monroe: HAL-PC Internet Expo., HAL wants us to push this baby. Its supposed to be a pretty big deal. Category Publicity, Exposure 5 minutes.
6:05 - 7:05 PM: Lewis Keim and John Chambers: Lots of people seem to be excited about AFP (Active FoxPro Pages) . Find out why. This is simple to load 3rd party software. Lewis and John will demo loading the MS decomcnfg and PWS (or IIS), necessary for all web apps. Then demo loading and using AFP loaded on one computer seen via the web on another (hopefully need phone connect that Hal says we have in room) Changing code and tables with audience participation.
A copy of AFP will be raffled - Chambers will not be in raffle since he always wins. .Category, Add on technology. 55 minutes.
BREAK 7:05 PM till 7:20 PM
7:20 -7:25 Announcements by Rich Monroe
Advanced Rich Monroe Conducting
7:25 - 7:45 PM: Tim Hayes: Presentation based on Jim Duffy's "Help Mr. Wizard" presentation at the Los Angeles Developer's Conference. This presentation had the best jokes. It took the source code for the wizards and shows you how to build your own to guide user input. t is short and very practical. Developers Conf. Topic, 15 minutes.
7:30 - 7:50 PM: Markus Egger: Markus and Travis have been working on a new set of classes they call the Fox Extension Classes. They had their debut in Vegas at the end of September. These classes are a set of 'interface' classes that have things like a login form class, wizard class, item selection dialog class, pageframe class, hyperlink textbox class, email textbox class, etc. Fox Extension Classes 45 to 60 minutes
Ready Reserve: Ed Hardin: Learning the sequence of the event model and the firing order of form and object events. "Understanding the Event Model" and "The Visual FoxPro Event Sequence". Also using the DEBUGOUT method.