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• Drawings with gdiplusX -part I

  26 January 2015 ( #visual foxpro, #gdiplusX, #drawings )

  Five codes are presented below to show drawings in gdiplusX. Can select any code and copy it to a prg Always have the latest stable system.app version (download in vfpX codeplex). As prg th e code must also to point to gdiplusX.vcx gdiplusX proj download...

• Awesome Html5 canvas animations - part2

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

  Below 6 codes working with ie emulation (i tested on ie11 emulation here). the javascript part is from K3D libraries. Better to download it (its free) and run(links can be broken or moved...) locally on disc.the links are in the codes. the resources used...

• Create a simple color picker

  25 January 2015 ( #visual foxpro, #color picker )

  This is 2 methods for making a simple color palette with visual foxpro. -the first is with native vfp functions -the second is with gdiplusX -I added a trick to make an image encoded as txt file *added a random color palette with bindevent,and a form...

• Filters & transitions on modern browsers

  17 November 2016 ( #CSS3 TRANSITIONS, #CSS3 filters, #Visual foxpro, #edge bug, #image editor, #fullscreen API )

  This code makes some standard filters on any local image and shows result on a web browser. there is 15 filters and spinners can set parameters to render the final work. Infortunatly IE11 (or vfp browser emulated one) does not support actually great majority...

• Digging in windows10 mine

  30 October 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #Windows10 Apps, #Special folders, #Windows icons, #ExtractiCon, #Shellexecute, #bindevent, #Search in grid, #win10 UIApps, #restart explorer, #app template, #pictureVal, #20 modern apps )

  *1*created on 26 of october 2017 *!* This is a personal platform to run all windows Apps,special folders,... *!* the method is to gather in a cursor a summary description and the command to run the application. *!* there is 282 applications indexed alphabetically....

• A web radio FM player

  01 November 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #radio FM, #web player, #flash, #runas )

  A pocket web radio FM player through internet connection. this form uses a web component to stream the radio FM (frequency modulation). all radio FM urls are gathered into a cursor and populate a comboBox. Any click combo builds a web page with representing...

• Around multi languages keyboards

  16 November 2015 ( #Keyboard, #osk, #multi languages, #API, #freeVK )

  these 6 codes below turn around keyboards as : 1-windows OSk and positionning with APIs for showWindow=0,1 2-get representation as image of 157 windows implemented keyboard 3-virtual windows keyboards and defined keys 4-a cool multilanguage web keyboard...

• The modern UI app windows Reader (win8.1 & win10)

  18 August 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #metro reader, #UI App )

  I struggled to make the Modern UI App reader working programmatly (its name (window title) is locallized and then depends on language installed on system). I expose below some ways to do that. can add it in the menu of previous post (UI apps on systray)...

• HTML5 canvas filters on images

  22 May 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #html5, #canvas, #javascript, #image filters )

  Remember these codes work only with ie emulation as pointed in previous posts (otherwise have fired errors when running). These codes are tested on IE11 emulation. JavaScript is still essential to work with canvas. I used a mixed code vfp/javascript to...

• A visual foxpro CHARMAP

  01 May 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #charmap, #unicode chars, #decimal char, #hex char, #octal char, #special chars )

  I never seen a charmap made with Visual foxpro. the windows utility charmap.exe can run easily from vfp as follow Run/n charmap.exe &&this utility resides in windows system32 it figures all chars in relation with any font even unicode. and that's the...

• Extract Icons from exe applications or dlls -APIs- partII

  02 October 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #extractIcon, #ExtractIconEX, #API, #DrawIcon, #File dialog properties, #vfp9 icons )

  We now studay icons exclusively with APIs.These APIs of course desserve the gdiplus and gdiplusX builts. below 4 codes 1-extract icon given by an index in an exe or dll (icon is a valid one with a color depth=32) 2-Extract all icons 32x32 present in an...

• Ownerdrawn transparent menus-Herman Tan class

  17 March 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #ownerdrawn menus, #API, #Herman TAN, #Menus )

  Herman Tan ownerdrawn menu (2005- last updated published 2006-2008) can be downloaded from this link: http://hermantan.blogspot.com/2006/09/updated-ownerdrawn-menu-class.html first version can be seen in https://www.universalthread.com/ViewPageArticle.aspx?ID=476...

• Visual Foxpro and design time working

  03 March 2016 ( #design time, #aselobj, #document view, #readMethod, #writeMethod, #saveas, #vfp menu names, #GetPEM, #Visual foxpro, #_browser )

  Working with vfp objects at design time is completely diffrent with the runtime. At design time there is some usefull functions as: -aselobj -GetPEm -ReadMethod -WriteMethod -Saveas -collections (for each obj in ...foxObject) -..... Must retain that all...

• Blurring& glassing a vfp form background

  03 September 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #gdiplusX, #blur, #transparency, #aeroGlass, #forms, #DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea )

  vfp9 have not functions to make aero theme or blur the form background as made by modern OS (vista and latest). Then instead of blurring really the form background,i replace this effect with a built form.picture,cloning exactly whatever is behind (or...

• public Hotkeys in Visual foxpro

  13 March 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #Hotkey, #RegisterHotKey, #Shortcut, #API )

  Inside Foxpro system can Assign easily Access Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts As you create a menu system, you should consider ease of access to the system, and you must assign tasks to the system. You must give menus and menu items tasks to perform, such...

• Building an instantaneous search filer with vfp

  04 May 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #filer, #search file, #everything, #windows scheduler, #taskschd.msc )

  [post 276] vfp historically is a good searcher but with old/traditional methods as: -pointing a folder,scan/endscan,loops,strings operations... -vfp filer (with an external dll)-this dont worked correctly and make vfp crash without any alert (abandoned)....

• GdiplusX drawings part II

  29 January 2015 ( #visual foxpro, #gdiplusX, #drawings, #watermark )

  This page presents 4 codes: 1 -Chapitre I Basic Drawings 2-ChapII-Gradientbrushes in many styles and many colors 3-ChapIII-points,circles 4-Chap IV-watermarks text on image at a specified position -single or batch images -Chapitre I Basic Drawings *!*make...

• Around the vfp systray class

  01 March 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #Systray class )

  Below 5 codes relative to the systray class . These codes are tested on win8.1 The Systray class is based on the VFP Hyperlink class. This allows the Systray class to be dropped on a form, just like any other visual class or coded as vfp object(createObject,...

• Yet another gradients samples

  04 September 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #gradients, #gdiplusX, #gradienFill, #Imgcanvas, #LinearGradientBrush, #SetBlendTriangularShape, #SetSigmaBellShape, #html5 canvas )

  Click on code to select [then copy] -click outside to deselect *1* *i use this sample to build some gradient based images. *this code draws with vfp native functions 10 random gradients (case choose in the spinner simple gradients or buttons type gradients)...

• yTxt2PDF : convert any plain text (even web Html) to PDF

  17 December 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #FoxyPreviewer, #ytxt2pdf, #convert text to pdf, #vfp report, #build exe, #ysystem class, #web page to txt, #xmlhttp, #Html2Txt )

  Foxypreviewer can translate any txt file (even big one as a book) to pdf (save this code as ytxt2pdf.prg) the text can be from any web page (html)converted to txt file or any local txt file. the txt file is divided into pages and passed to a memo field...

• BULLZIP PDF PRINTER as COM Object

  05 May 2016 ( #print to pdf, #bullzip, #visual foxpro, #pdf automation, #BullZIP.PDFPrinterSettings )

  Bullzip PDF Printer is one of the most complete and advanced tools to convert any printable document into PDF or into various image file formats. This tool is compatible with all Windows versions available, and you can use it for free for personal and...

• Customizable html5 canvas analogic clocks

  28 May 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #html5, #canvas, #javascript, #clocks )

  In the previous posts relative to html5 canvas i shipped many html5 canvas clocks. these codes below customize three of them on many parameters as -needles hour+minutes colors -graduations colors - hour digit numbers colors -text color -clock face gradients...

• Generating signatures

  29 July 2016 ( #signature, #drawing, #gdiplusX, #MSINKAUT objects, #INKCollector, #inkRectangle )

  How to generate programmatly a user signature ? must present a support as a form to draw manually the user signature and save it as image format. can integrate it in a field table or put it simply in a folder and call it when needed. i present 3 solutions...

• Messagebox with function API and VFP

  20 December 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #messagebox API, #API, #form messagebox )

  The messagebox API is the source of the vfp messagebox function. this last one have many restrictions as -the text length is limited to 1024 chars max. -the text is occidental exclusively and dont support unicode. this code make an experimental builder...

• Working with jQuery from Visual foxpro

  03 December 2015 ( #jQuery, #Visual foxpro, #JavaScript, #calculator, #datePicker )

  jQuery is a lightweight, "write less, do more", JavaScript library. The purpose of jQuery is to make it much easier to use JavaScript on the web pages. jQuery takes a lot of common tasks that require many lines of JavaScript code to accomplish, and wraps...