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• Using gdiplusX drawing technics

  25 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #gdiplusX, #drawings )

  This code uses known technics of gdiplusX libary on imgcanvas control as -drawing shapes & filling,array points,PathGradientBrush -Lineargradients,blends,factors colors on shapes -surroundcolors,centercolors -drawString... Works with system.app and gdiplusX...

• Using Notepad++ with Visual foxpro as real editor.

  28 February 2016 ( #notepad++, #syntax highlighter, #vfp editor, #config, #userDefinedLanguage )

  in preview post have show how to make notepad++ working in tandem with visual foxpro as completely external application. this tutorial show how to customize notepad++ to work as a part of vfp environment. Assuming that free notepad++ is downloaded and...

• Working with windows10 shortcuts

  21 September 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #win10 shortcuts, #keybd_event, #API )

  Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of two or more keys that perform a task that would typically require a mouse or other pointing device. Keyboard shortcuts can save you time and effort as you use Windows and other apps. Windows10 introduces new applications...

• Text to Speech (TTS) part2 : Applying to IE11 vfp browser

  04 January 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #TTS, #SAPI5, #EvenHandler, #object browser, #sapi.dll, #_ISpeechVoiceEvents, #HTMLSelectElementEvents )

  this is the second part of the previous post "Working with Text to Speech (TTS)" :http://yousfi.over-blog.com/2018/01/working-with-text-to-speech-tts.html this builds a vfp browser olecontrol and intercept some events.its the same modified code in my...

• A special effect ala Stars War with CSS vfp & navigator.

  24 January 2015 ( #visual foxpro, #CSS, #NAVIGATORS, #stars war )

  *For fun this a special effect animation as stars war produced and its with CSS adapted to vfp+any browser. *you have the choice with FF,Chrome or IExplore. *You can customize the title,text... *the html+css code is built from vfp and run with shellexecute...

• A WEB EASINGS demo

  30 November 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #easing, #animations )

  Easing function specifies the speed of an animation to make it more realistic. A real object does not start its movement instantaneously and at constant speed. When we open a drawer, we must first indicate its acceleration and then its deceleration. When...

• The Web Fullscreen API throw an images viewer sample

  22 September 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #fullscreen api, #web api, #firefox, #images viewer, #setx path )

  You can use the fullscreen API to bring video, images, and other content to a user's full attention. its a javascript function,the script is positionned at the bottom of the web page body code. Any click on a declared as fullscreen class element makes...

• A special pictures viewer from a toolbar

  27 February 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #toolbar, #pictures viewer, #setlayeredWindow, #mouseWheel )

  the code *1* builds a toolbar docked on bottom vfp screen. it embeds a container who can have a big quantity of buttons firing images(200 is a normal images count).can select any big folder of filtered format images (here jpg,png,bmp,gif ). the button...

• Blend 2 images with gdiplusX

  23 January 2015 ( #GdiplusX, #Visual foxpro, #drawing, #blending, #colorMatrix, #imgcanvas, #drawpath, #stringFormat )

  *This code makes a blend or dissolve effect with 2 images and can blend a text with adjusted format (font+size+position by dragging it). *GdiplusX class and system.app must be reached mandatory from code making it to work *Can choice 2 images and adjust...

• Libharu HPDF library - Export to PDFs part II

  18 April 2016 ( #libharu, #hpdf, #encodings, #list_encoding, #outline, #destination, #Visual foxpro )

  the previous part began to be heavy, that why i open this part II. -23 encoding_list demos for Libharu with _libPDF.prg library this code shows the list of characters for various encodings. it must be in same folder as _libpdf.prg library and libhpdf.dll...

• A css treeview on VFP form

  22 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #Treeview, #CSS )

  A css treeview on VFP form -This code builds a web (only css) treeview on a vfp browser olecontrol and makes the clicked links working in vfp environments. All links are redirected from the browser before navigate2 method. Some links are coded to visual...

• GdiplusX images transformations & ImageAttribut & ColorMatrix"

  14 September 2015 ( #Visual Foxpro, #gdiplusX, #imageAttribut, #colormatrix, #Imaging )

  *--this code was posted on foxite on Time stamp mercredi 20 mai 2009; 22:43:52 *--Subject :This code turns around imaging bitmaps, working with gdiplusX class,image attributes and colormatrix Load any bitmap file and make changes with buttons allowed.can...

• 6 cool flash clocks in a standalone executable

  21 November 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #ie application, #flash clocks )

  the code displays in IE (here emulation 11) one of 6 cool flash clocks. the view is set as fullscreen. this proj produces a standalone exe of its sources who are swf files(flash). the swf are converted to txt files (extension.sw), embed included on proj...

• Web sidebar working with VFP application

  10 November 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #Sidebar, #web menu, #getElementById, #ycnt_imgs class )

  A sidebar is a panel can collapse to free space or expand for using its contents. it can be coded with pure vfp as collapsible container,listbox or even a form (scrollable if needed) or an olecontrol treeview on the form... but the look infortunatly stays...

• A simple themed progressbar

  07 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #progressbar, #class )

  In this recent article "Generate gradients images with APIs" http://yousfi.over-blog.com/2015/01/generate-gradients-images-with-apis.html we made code to build images with gradients colors.Can be small dimensions. Now we can use these images to build...

• yPix: a desktop vfp colorPicker

  11 October 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #colorPicker, #APIs, #capture )

  This color manager yPix is a VFP9 program , do the follow things and retrieves: - the absolute positions X and Y at any screen point - the VFP color (RGB color) as an integer - the Hexadecimal color - the HTML color - the CMYK(Cyan,magenta,yellow,key...

• Building a vfp navigable richtextbox

  04 February 2015 ( #visual foxpro, #richtextbox )

  The richtextbox is an activeX ("RICHTEXT.RichtextCtrl.1") shipped with visual foxpro and can be used for making rich texts. I make this demo example with goal to be independent of any external resources (as dbf,images,embedd texts ...) Select the code...

• Modify native form skin with windows eventhandlers

  15 February 2016 ( #windows events handler, #gdiplus, #titlebar, #skin form )

  this code is a windows eventhandler as the sample shipped in vfp9. it uses gdiplus to paint & skin the titlebar and the form borders with a bi color gradient. it write also the form titlebar with a choosen color, fontnamenfontsize. the capabilities are:...

• Snap a web page as image

  15 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #capture web, #span web, #gdiplusX )

  Capture contents of visible or invisible windows & web pages with PRINTWINDOW API This code captures the contents of visible, invisible windows and web pages as images jpg,png,gif,bmp,tiff... The normal way of capturing the contents of a window into a...

• GdiplusX functions help

  20 September 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #gdiplusX, #GdisplusX help )

  this tool can import all functions enumerated in system.drawing.prg of gdiplusX (1035 functions) and show in the right browser. these functions are listed in the order of their appearance in the library. this list integrates also also the APIs declarations...

• A CSS web menu on vfp form

  10 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #menu, #css )

  Nowadays modern styles such as CSS, HTML5 ... are fully on the worldwide web and make great attraction by users. Why not use them with Visual fox browser ( mandatory emulated (as ie11 for ex.) )! I made a small css menu on a web page navigated from the...

• A vfp9 replacement for IECAPT to snap any web page as image.

  11 March 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #gdiplusX, #API, #vfp browser, #capture web page, #printWindow, #gdiplus.dll, #yInputBox, #web to image )

  I used IECAPT.exe ,an utility to capture a web page (even on disc ) to image.this is a replacement with pure vfp code of this usefull utility. I have already used this vfp pure code to snap any web page (or disc page). that why i stay with same introduction:...

• A configurable desktop calendar

  18 January 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #calendar, #gradient, #transparency )

  this is a calendar originally downloaded from https://www.universalthread.com/ViewPageNewDownload.aspx?ID=33853 calendar.zip Emmanuel Galanopoulos Athens Graphical Month Calendar Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 09h52 (he agreed to this update by email)...

• A web slider with CSS & IE evenHandler

  08 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #eventhandler, #olecontrol, #slider )

  In this link we spoke about the IE eventhandler from vfp form http://yousfi.over-blog.com/2015/02/vfp-and-internet-explorer-eventhandler.html The first below code creates a prg class named yeventHandler.prg to trapp events on internet explorer browser.you...

• Free hand captures as bitmaps

  16 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #captures, #API, #free hand )

  This code provides a free hand capture of any visible desktop window region by hand (with mouse). It uses exclusively windows APIs and a table as cursor to gather the captured points. The idea is to fire a top level form made alpha transparent (to see...