Mike Stewart of Microsoft is doing the Southern California Tour this week! After visiting the groups on the West Coast he's going to brave the desert heat and head for Phoenix. We've moved our meeting to Friday night of this week. Same time (7:00) - Same place (BTek). See www.elzorro.org for directions.

Here is Mike's topic:

Hooking Windows System Events -
VFP 9.0 brings with it the ability to hook into Windows system events and
run custom VFP code when those events occur. When a new drive, such as a
USB memory drive, is plugged in, VFP 9.0 can fire code to copy files, import
records, or anything else VFP can do. When a laptop begins to hibernate or
go to standby, a developer can now save changes, close tables, or do any
other cleanup work before the system goes to sleep. Developers can trap
events that occur in custom windows or even windows in the VFP IDE. Mike
will explain and demonstrate the basics of Windows messages, the windows
procedures used to process messages, and hooking into system events to run
custom event code.

Jeff