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• working with vfp native menus

  15 April 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #menu, #genmenu, #system menu, #shortcut menu, #menu names, #CNTBAR, #PRMBAR, #Prompt, #Pictres, #Push menu, #Pop menu )

  [Post 272] native vfp menus are obviously some old and somewhat obscure. in vfp language there is some supports to work with menus: 1-the menu designer creates an mnx/mnt menu and generates an MPR menu ( as a prg file),compiled as MPX file. the menu builder...

• Awesome html5 canvas animations - part3

  26 May 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #html5, #canvas, #javascript, #animations )

  A simple and fast library to allow pseudo 3D graphics to be rendered onto a 2D canvas. The canvas K3D JavaScript programming libraries by Kevin Roast supports wireframes and polygons with depth cue shading, animation with motion blur, and texture mapping...

• HTML5 AUDIO & VIDEO PLAYERS

  02 April 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #html5, #mediaplayer, #automation, #html5 audio player, #playlist, #video player )

  HTML 5 is a revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the standard programming language for describing the contents and appearance of Web pages.HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content...

• VFP Shapes and maps drawings

  12 March 2016 ( #Shape, #polypoint, #map, #polygons, #drawing, #gdiplusX, #Visual foxpro, #stars shapes, #FloodFill API )

  Native vfp shapes are controls having some properties.Can be rectangular, roundrectangular or circular (set with their property curvature 0-99). natively they cannot embed any drawing until vfp9 adds the property Polypoint who support to make drawings...

• A custom metro apps application in systray

  17 August 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #metro apps, #systray, #GodMode, #AppsFolder, #Powershell, #get All metro apps, #Edge launch )

  This code below builds a systray menu with some choosen windows metro applications (available on win8.1 and win10). with this artifact the favorite win apps can be under the hand and fired at any time. my favorite are: meteo,news, sports,photos, my couriel...

• Photos frames with gdiplusX

  10 June 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #gdiplusX, #hatchstyles, #borders, #torn paper )

  I needed to make some frames on photos and gdiplusX comes my rescue. This article is devoted to this subject with 6 codes. -the gdiplusX hatchstyle pattern brushes can draw patterns (with no image) and draw directly on the context surface to output an...

• Scrolling texts & images in visual foxpro

  07 March 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #scrollings, #Scrollbars, #scrollable container )

  Below 6 codes relative to scrolls text,images,scrollable containers.. *Suggestions and Bug Reports are always Welcome. *1-*A top level form as scrollable container Visual foxpro dont ship any scrollable container class.The only one big container can be...

• Grid cosmetics part 3

  01 October 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #Grid border color, #grid vertical header, #box function, #vfp controls borders, #grid themes )

  [Post 278] this post continues the previous one (part1 and part2). its relative to vfp grid codes,as grid artificial borderwidth or bordercolor , vertical headers.... note: if want more grid cosmetics convert the relative cursor online to html and browse...

• Five cool slideshow makers

  20 December 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #javascript, #Slideshow, #transitions, #sliders, #jQuery, #GdiplusX, #pictureVal, #runAS administrator )

  jQuery ( javascript ) is actually the top soft for building responsive slideshows.it produces cool transitions. i adapted an original free demo javascript code from http://www.jssor.com/demos/image-gallery.slider the code can fetch for any jpg images...

• Build cool css3 buttons

  08 November 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #css3, #buttons, #snippingtool, #slider, #capture, #gdiplusX, #transition )

  The term CSS is an acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is a computer language used on the Internet to format HTML or XML files. Therefore, style sheets, also known as CSS files, include code for managing the design of an HTML page. this is a basic...

• Working with common dialogs Part2

  09 January 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #commonDialogs, #getfile, #getdir, #SHBrowseForFolder, #_comdlg bug, #_system.vcx, #_comdlg )

  this is the continuation of chapter dialogs as presented in the previous post http://yousfi.over-blog.com/2016/01/working-with-common-dialogs-part1.html *Important:*the codes follow are tested on visual foxpro 9 sp2-under windows 10 pro Click on code...

• Dynamic web world Maps drived from VFP

  10 December 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #javascript, #DOM, #freeMap, #World Maps, #dom collections, #getElementById, #openlayers, #LeaftLet, #hide IE icon )

  this code uses the web (https://maps-for-free.com/) who gives a free world map nearly as google maps provides. its -a zoommable map (zoom in +zoom out on any point of the world) -a movable map by mouse down (zoom and pan). -execute some actions as (Export...

• Working with windows handles and APIs- Part I

  05 March 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #Handles, #windows, #styles, #Taskbar, #menu )

  8 codes in this first part of windows ,handles and APIs showing how to manipulate any window, having a handle. In VFP , only forms are considered as Windows real object and have their handleThis integer,distributed by the system is used to make all operations...

• Working with VFP project as Object

  28 December 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #project object, #collection, #build exe, #project PEM )

  A project file is a table that keeps track of all the source files such as programs, forms, menus, libraries,reports, labels, tables, indexes, and format files. A project also keeps track of all the dependencies,references, and connections among the files...

• Playing with Youtube medias (video-audio)

  21 March 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #javascript, #youtube, #iframe, #youtube embed, #IE emulation, #JSapi, #RegExp, #videoID )

  The JavaScript API allows users to control embedded YouTube video players via JavaScript. youtube video can be embed in an iframe with all parameters needed. < iframe class="youtube-player" id="player" type="text/html" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JW5meKfy3fY?wmode=opaque&autohide=1&autoplay=1&enablejsapi=1"...

• RSS feeds Reader on your VFP form.

  04 October 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #RSS, #syndication, #XML, #autocomplete, #cycling feeds, #fade transition )

  RSS is a Web content syndication format.Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. its a family of web feeds used to represent digital contents in the XML format. RSS is a dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification,...

• Extract Icons from exe applications or dlls-gdiplusX - partI

  30 September 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #icons extract, #gdiplusX, #image2icon, #icon2image, #ExtractAssociatedIcon, #IDI icons )

  In this first part we studay only the gdiplus class Solution from xfcIcon class.in the second part we studay that with APIS exclusively. Exe and dlls can encapsulate many resources as icon files.these icons are compiled with projects and can be extracted...

• playing with MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2 Treeviews

  27 May 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #olecontrol, #treeview, #MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2, #bindevent, #treeview builder, #filltree, #treeview explorer, #search in treeview )

  Most of vfp developpers dont use the treeview olecontrol microsoft MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2 (SP6) shipped with vfp. maybe its hard to set ... its also fast forgetting... in this demo can set a treeview as a navigation bar (menu,sidebar,...and whatever)....

• Some VFP DOM tests into HTML5 canvas class Part1

  25 April 2015 ( #HTML, #canvas, #DOM, #Javascript, #Visual foxpro )

  Html5 canvas is a new surface class drawing and makes a great replacement of gdiplus,gdiplusX.its works only on modern navigators whose support that(chrome,firefox, ie9 and above...). Some persons can think thats a registry hack .No thats a microsoft...

• Who said that vfp IE browser died ?

  31 January 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #IE BROWSER, #Olecontrol, #IE Emulation, #set emulation )

  The vfp internet explorer Browser was freezing in version IE7 and dont access to modern technologies as html5,audio,video,drawings as canvas,.... in My knowledge vfp users are also freezed with this olecontrol and dont have any official information how...

• Web desktop based applications & transparency

  06 November 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #css, #web app, #web transparency, #bindevent, #olecontrol, #transparency, #getElementById, #youtube video player, #collapsible menu, #Setting IE emulation, #crateElement )

  Web technology can be used usefully on vfp form inside olecontrols (oleclass="shell.explorer.2"). the olecontrol must mandatory be emulated to work with latest web technologies (as IE11). can build modern vfp apps with web ingredients. in vfp ,transparency...

• Working with form regions and transparency part 2

  15 February 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #FindWindowEx, #sendMessage, #AlphaBlend, #LR_LoadFromFile, #createCompatibleDc, #BitBlt, #GetObject, #buf2Dword, #BeginPath, #PathToRegion, #Textout, #createFont, #SetWindowRgn, #Clip Text, #EndPath, #GdipCreateLineBrushFromRectI, #Bitmap lineargradient with API, #yGenerateGradBitmap, #SetLayeredWindowAttributes, #Lock form, #Lock Desktop )

  these code continue the previous post working with forms rgions ans transparencies. the first code *1* -draw some pre defined windows small images on desktop (note that drawings are not persistent). -draw bmp's images on desktop (bmp is supported by API...

• Working with Text to Speech (TTS)

  01 January 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #Sapi.dll, #SAPI.SPVOICE, #TTS, #Text to Speech )

  SAPI = Speech Application Program Interface How to define TTS(text to speech)? Text to speech, abbreviated as TTS, is a form of speech synthesis that converts text into spoken voice output. TTS systems were first developed to aid the visually impaired...

• Singular vfp old and new calculators

  23 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #calculator )

  A vfp calculator this is a textbox joined with the native vfp calculator. this last is fired with this command [activate window calculator] its possible only in vfp screen,command window or screen forms or forms level 1 (showWindow=0,1).but the calculator...

• Around Emails & inbox with Gmail and Courrier apps

  21 February 2016 ( #Email, #Gmail, #IE application, #Mailto, #courrier, #inbox feeds, #Google apps )

  I searched in all vfp namespace a code to grab my gmail box or to send emails.All codes i tried returned me errors (protocoles,...) and dont have capabilities to communicate with actual google gmail. I searched for an email desktop application.i found...