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Give me the bullets to sell VFP Web enabled apps
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20/08/2001 09:03:00
 
 
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17/08/2001 01:08:35
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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00544633
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Thanks John

I will give it a try.



>Mark
>
>Do a demo. Use Rick Strahl's dHTML form Rendering classes to web-ify a VFP form with a grid record selector, tabs, precisely positioned fields, databound dropdowns, etc etc. If possible, take one of your existing forms (test it first!) and expose it as a web page using the above classes.
>
>Then show how you did it- open the VFP form, add a label saying "Hello there!" and move some of the fields around and add another databound field, then run it again. If you have time, get field saving going for a real "wow" experience.
>
>Also familiarise yourself with in-line parsing- the TEXTMERGE capability of VFP and (to a lesser extent) EVAL and &. These were originally intended for merging reports in the text printer days but they are absolutely lovely for web stuff. Try to focus on TEXTMERGE because when I've tried to discuss inline parsing in the past, silly people have focused on EVAL and tried to claim that VB can do the same using VBSCRIPT classes.
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>Anybody who has any real experience with web cannot help but be impressed by TEXTMERGE and Rick's classes. People with little experience may not appreciate the importance, which is why the demo is such a good thing to do.
>
>Regards
>
>JR
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