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• Working with color schemes in vfp menus

  17 January 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #menu, #color scheme, #Scheme, #define popup, #RGBSCHEME )

  The COLOR clause The trick is to use the COLOR clause in the DEFINE PAD, DEFINE POPUP or DEFINE BAR commands. (DEFINE PAD creates the top-level menu title, DEFINE POPUP creates the menu itself, and DEFINE BAR creates an individual menu item.) According...

• OLE DRAG & DROP in VISUAL FOXPRO

  21 April 2016 ( #oledrag&drop, #Visual foxpro )

  i published a post relative to oledrag & drop in visual foxpro - 6 november 2014 in this Foxite link: https://www.foxite.com/archives/drag-images-from-explorer-firefox-0000414145.htm infortunatly this was worked on windows8.1 if i remember.When upgraded...

• Put any application on systray knowing its HWND

  10 March 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #SYSTRAY, #traybar, #ShowWindow, #ProcessMenuEvent, #ShowWindow constants, #long2str, #GetAsyncKeyState, #Shell_NotifyIcon, #SetForegroundWindow, #ExtractIconEx, #systray balloon )

  this code can make vfp reside on the systray (traybar) and used to hide/show vfp application. it uses ShowWindow API exclusively and systray class(to avoid some errors,this last must copied in source folder(vcx+vct)-the code does that). it works with...

• FREE HAND DRAWING WITH VISUAL FOXPRO

  25 January 2015 ( #free drawing, #visual fopro, #gdiplusX )

  I present here two methods for free hand drawing in visual foxpro. -the first is with native vfp (first 3prg's below) -the second is with gdiplusX (4th prg) gdiplusX proj download at codeplex : http://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=gdiplusx&referringtitle=home *(1)...

• Build your chm help with vfp & HTML worshop

  16 March 2016 ( #Help, #chm, #html Workshop, #hhp, #hhc.exe, #hhk, #moverbar )

  Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, consisting of a collection of HTML pages, an index and other navigation tools. The files are compressed and deployed in a binary format with the extension .CHM, for Compiled HTML....

• The DrawText API by a real example

  07 June 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #API, #drawText, #format text )

  The drawText APi have some explanations in this MSDN link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd162498%28v=vs.85%29.aspx its very usefull when you want to format a text (ANSI orR Unicode) in a given area. The DrawText function draws...

• A sidebar accordion web menu with a desktop vfp application

  11 November 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #sidebar, #accordion, #menu collapsible, #desktop app, #web transparency, #splash screen, #disable browser rightclick, #disable cursor )

  this code builds a main form as desktop application stylised with web ingredients. it uses transparency for creating a main text and a big changeable image as background.web can use the usefull rgba(red,gree,blue,opacity(0-1)) to set any color with transparency...

• A vfp pageframe on a form as main menu

  09 September 2015 ( #pageframe, #menu, #forms, #png icons, #drawmenuBar, #SetMenuInfo )

  Pageframe vfp control is used here to build a menu with modern png icons.it is embed on a top level form with property alwaysOntop=.t. i made some transparency with the APÏ setLayeredWindow. it can encapsule too vfp standard controls as images,commandbuttons,grids,combo....in...

• Disabling events by masking with a vfp form

  25 November 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #olecontrol, #internetexplorer.application, #Lock screen )

  In computing, a web widget is a software widget for the web. It's a small application with limited functionality that can be installed and executed within a web page by an end user. A widget has the role of a transient or auxiliary application, meaning...

• GdiplusX blurs & halos on images and texts

  29 September 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #gdiplusX, #blur, #shadow, #halo )

  I re publish this old post i put in Foxite for the gdiplusX lovers. This post contains 3 codes: 1-Apply different blurs on an image and simulate effect 2-Apply shadows,halos on an image and workshop for all adjustings. 3-Apply shadows,halos,fonts,adjustings...

• Testing VFP scrollbar container classes .

  24 December 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #Scroll Container, #vfpScrollbar class, #scroll container class, #MouseWheel )

  the vfpscrollbar class is from SPS site(Graig Boyd): *download the vfpscrollbar.zip and keep only the vfpscrollbar.vcx(+vct) *from http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/spsblog/2005/08/27/VisualFoxProScrollbarClasses.aspx it can embed a great quantity of...

• 2 html5 videoplayers as exe

  18 June 2015 ( #Video player, #html5 )

  2 methods to work with the html5 video player as executable file. can see also the method to build programmatly a proj and compile an exe . NB: video played must be mandatory in html5 videos supported formats. *tested on visual foxpro 9 sp2-windows 8.1...

• A custom vfp Ansi and Unicode tooltip

  07 June 2015 ( #Visual Foxpro, #tooltip, #drawText, #createfont, #API, #Unicode, #Ansi, #InfoBulle )

  The drawText APi studied in previous post can draw a formatted text on any window surface. It can be ANSI (drawtext or DrawtextA) or Unicode(DrawTextW). A top level form is used here as tooltip fired on mouseEnter event on a control and destoyed on MouseLeave...

• An autosize VFP editbox

  05 March 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #editbox, #autosize editbox, #editbox lines number, #CreateFont, #drawtext, #GetDeviceCaps )

  this code builds an autosize editbox embed in a container class. it calculates the number of lines of the editbox for any given width and then it sets the real height with a fontname,fontsize and a fontstyle as parameters. the height of an editbox line...

• Beziers curves drawing with gdiplusX and native vfp functions

  28 January 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #Beziers, #GDIPLUSX, #rose curve )

  *1* *!*--Subject :Drawing random Beziers curves with gdiplusX with alpha channel transparency.*!*--ESC to stop and browsing capture button(capture canvas contents and paste to mspaint)*!*the code ask to pint to gdiplusX class and system.app for mandatory...

• Windows keyboard on screen -OSK.exe-

  03 March 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #osk, #keyboard, #API )

  Updated on jeudi 5 mars 2015; 11:03:27 The osk.exe is a windows visual application of keyboard. On-Screen Keyboard Portable makes it easy to access Windows' built-in On-Screen Keyboard on any system you come across. (and any language set on system). Give...

• A multiselect Grid

  22 January 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #grid, #multiselect, #highlightStyle, #dynamicBackColor, #grid checked, #grid iconed, #report orientation, #Alter Table, #dynamicFontbold, #highLightBackColor, #Add column )

  this code builds a grid with multiSelect Functionalities as windows explorer does(click to select an object and reclick maintaining shift key to make a selection). to achieve this goal we need to a logic field (added automatically to the recordSource...

• A VFP multi Tabs browser

  18 December 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #browser multitabs, #IE, #Pageframe )

  This Is a basic multiTab IE BrowseR On a Visual FoxPro top level Form. it have the capabilities as follow: -create dynamically a new tab providing url navigation -removing any tab -type any url in the textbox (its autocomplete one sorted history alphabetically:...

• Drawing graphs on the fly with gdiplusX

  13 September 2015 ( #Visual Foxpro, #gdiplusX, #graphs, #Histogram )

  The 3 codes below draw graphs as histogram on the fly with data gathered on a simple vfp cursor. this use gdiplusX library.the code asks to point mandatory to system.app to make the app working. can modify colors,title,values,... in code as your custom...

• Clipping polygons paths in html5 canvas

  30 May 2015 ( #visual foxpro, #html5, #canvas, #clip, #polygons )

  *1* This application uses the canvas context clip() function to build a workshop for any polygon. I used to make first an inside html buttons on the page.There is some security restrictions for working from outside the page (vfp),for ex cannot open a...

• Build any systray application with APIs.

  13 March 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #API, #shell_notifyIcon, #shell version, #systray, #menu on systray, #createpopupmenu, #AppendMenu, #balloon, #nim_add, #nim_modify, #nim_delete, #sendmessage, #WM_SETICON, #ICON_SMALL, #NIIF_SOUND )

  In my previous post http://yousfi.over-blog.com/2018/03/put-any-application-on-systray-knwing-its-hwnd.html the code *3* built an icon on systray to hide/show any window given by its handle (as _vfp.hwnd).there was no contextuel menu attached to this...

• Resize containers or forms with gripper class

  07 February 2016 ( #resize container, #resize form, #gripper, #marlett font )

  This code is available for any container on a form containing editbox,image or any vfp controls. i dont find Marlett font on my win10 pro. can download it at http://www.fontpalace.com/font-download/Marlett/ with explorer go to c:\windows\fonts and paste...

• Treeview MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2 used as explorer interface

  18 April 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #treeview, #ImageList, #MSComctlLib.ImageListCtrl.2, #MSComctlLib.TreeCtrl.2, #filltree, #mouse_event, #web treeview )

  [Post 273] this code builds a treeview interface with populated imagelist and with any directory of disc. the treeview and imagelist activeX are shipped with vfp and used communly. in treeview can: -show/hide checkBoxes - expand-collapse nodes -go top-gobottom...

• VFP Form statusbar and progressbars

  09 February 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #statusbar, #progressbars, #recents mru, #bindevent, #ole statusbar, #MSComctlLib.SBarCtrl.2 )

  VFP have not a form statusbar.the only one is on vfp ide (under command widow). the code works around an old class of Weswind "Creating a Statusbar control with VFP 8" can be found in https://www.west-wind.com/presentations/wwstatusbar/wwstatusbar.asp...

• A basic vfp richtextbox implementation

  23 December 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #Richtext )

  this code implements a basic richtextbox as a pure vfp solution. All the main idea consists in making each word of a text in a label control and then use the label properties to beautify the text. It's very fast contrary to what one may think. I used...