>VFP Codebook for Mere Mortals Update
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>Here is a list of the major changes included in the latest release of VFP Codebook for Mere Mortals. Each of these changes plus many more are listed in the “What’s New” document and Developer’s Guide that comes with the framework.
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>*** Integration with Stonefield Database Toolkit ***
>In this release we have provided integration with Stonefield Database Toolkit. We have created a new “Stonefield” component class that you can add to your application object when you want to integrate with Stonefield Database Toolkit. This Stonefield class is a subclass of our new Component class which will be used in the future to integrate with other 3rd Party Products.
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>*** Greater Flexibility ***
>We have added a greater degree of flexibility to the framework by means of our new Abstract Factory. This new class opens up the framework by allowing you to specify the concrete class names of the major framework components. This makes it very easy to replace components in the framework with your own custom classes.
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>For example, if you would like to replace the Mere Mortals error handler with your own error handler class, you can simply specify the name of the alternate error handler class in our new “Classes” table and the framework will take care of the rest. If you are not familiar with the Abstract Factory pattern, check out the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Vlissides.
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>*** New Business Rules Class ***
>Introduced the concept of a business rules class that can be attached to a business object. Breaking out business rules from the business object allows you to subclass and specialize business rules. For example, your application may require different business rules for different users. User 1 may be allowed to override a customer’s credit limit up to $10,000 whereas User 2 may only be allowed an override of up to $5,000.
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>The framework does not require that you use a separate business rules class, but offers the option where needed.
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>*** Support for External Class Libraries ***
>In VFP 5, a new “IN” clause was added to the SET CLASSLIB command which allows you to access class libraries in an .app or .exe file outside of your main application. We have added support for external class libraries in our Abstract Factory metadata table. You can specify that the framework use a particular class in a specific .exe or .app file.
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>*** New Form Manager Class ***
>Created a new specialized class that manages application forms. Previously, the application forms collection was a generic Reference Collection class.
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>*** Miscellaneous ***
>New developer hooks, new and improved functions, many enhanced classes.
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>If you would like more information or would like to order a copy of the framework, check out our web site at www.oakleafsd.com or call us at 804-979-2417.
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>Regards,

Kevin,
Do you handle other 3rd party products like FoxFire! or querymaker similar to Stonefield??

How about using an implimentation of DCBX??

Thanx!

Tony MIller
Vancouver, Wa