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• Visual foxpro Grid with background image

  29 January 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #grid, #grid background image )

  *This code allows to make some cosmetics on a vfp grid and can set an image background by an artifact. *it uses 2 top level forms "glowed" with coding events and transparency with APIs. *There is some flickers appearing when manipulate these objects but...

• 10 javascript gauges drived from VFP

  08 January 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #javascript, #gauges, #HTML5 CANVAS )

  This is a set of 10 javascripts tests of javascript gauges from https://github.com/Mikhus/canvas-gauges. its licencied under MIT (read the Github project). the codes are gathered in a vfp cursor and the form can rotates all the gauges contained. each...

• A form titlebar with gdiplusX

  24 January 2015 ( #visual foxpro, #form, #titlebar )

  *this code produces a gdiplusX titlebar of form with 2 menus , title,and control box. *Infortunatly i cannot make files to download here and i am forced to write all in prgs(hard work). *I make the entier code as a style exercice instead of making images...

• Windows10 version 1703 : Cortana on a vfp top level form

  25 October 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #Cortana, #Window10, #search )

  the new windows 10 last version 1703 ( Fall Creators Update) have transformed cortana as a cool configurable tool. this code *1* makes the famous cortana as a child window on a top level form. habitually cortana is fired from the windows10 taskbar at...

• Windows10 Print to PDF - Print to XPS

  22 March 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #print to PDF, #Print to XPS, #rundll32, #mshtml.dll, #doc2pdf, #xls2pdf, #frx2pdf )

  The XPS Document Writer allows you to create xps files using any program that you can print from in Windows. Print to the XPS Document Writer when you want to create, send, and share or publish documents that you do not want other people to modify, or...

• Retrieve all my VFP posts on my Blog

  31 December 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #Blog posts, #xmlhttp, #crawler, #search )

  At this time 31 december 2015 and after 11 busy months , i put 162 posts in my blogs desserving the vfp communauty. I hope these codes bring some new things and highlight some dark areas. this code retrieves all my posts in my blog begining with the most...

• A vfp grid working with the web

  30 January 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #grid, #dynamicFontBold, #flags in grid, #bindevent, #setwindowText, #extractIcon, #setIcon, #grid pictures, #google maps, #strextract )

  Click on code to select [then copy] -click outside to deselect this code builds a vfp grid working with web objects as images,html,... the countries flags are linked to their web locations and transformed in image control pictureVal (as seen in my previous...

• Scrolling vfp containers with FlatScrollbar activeX

  23 November 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #flatScrollbar, #scroll containers, #Sendmessage, #Mscomctl32 )

  i was surprised by an old microsoft scrollbar shipped with vfp as activex (olecontrol).i project to make it in use. in preview posts i have presented 2 scrollbars classes for vfp containers (from SPS and kirov sites) (see links below the page). The FlatScrollBar...

• Html5 Canvas Samples Part2

  25 April 2015 ( #Html5, #canvas, #images effects, #html5 clocks, #save canvas, #javascript, #Visual foxpro )

  This is a first mixed first code with visual foxpro,and DOM (traversing javascript code whose is the main support for html5 canvas ).For the problems encountered (see the preview post) i used DOM with javascript to draw on html5 canvas. I present some...

• Html5 canvas samples part 6

  14 May 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #html5, #canvas, #drawings, #javascript, #DOM, #ThreeJS )

  This is yet the part 6 of the html5 canvas samples.let we continuig our advanced in unknown lands! the subjects studied here ( more 45 codes ) are the follow: -Gradients samples -texts animations -lines animation -Drawings & animations -Blur image animated...

• VFP messagebox function Hook (captions and icon)

  22 December 2015

  The natural scenario from the previous post is to set a custom icon on messagebox function !I tried with vfp9 unsuccessfully... before begin copy and save this big string as y1.txt in the same folder with the code *1* below. it represents the vfpEx.fll,...

• Another html5 canvas text rendering

  17 May 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #html5, #canvas, #text rendering, #javascript, #DOM )

  This is another formatting text with html5 canvas .i introduced 3 methods to render the text as you can see in some screenshots below: -a random color -a gradient with 7 random colors. -A pattern (any local picture for ex.) can generate great quantity...

• Working with "EveryThing" filer instant search.

  22 May 2018 ( #Visual foxpro, #EVERYTHING, #instant search, #filer )

  [Post 277] Everything is a free language C application making an instant search. it can be launched from everything.exe (with an INI file).this is the native GUI.it can be manipulated also with command lines with ES.exe (a DOS programm). vfp can easily...

• A navBar (navigation bar) vfp class part2

  02 May 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #navbar class, #accordion, #Subclassing )

  This is the continuation of the previous part1 applied to a desktop app. This Code builds a Top Level Form without TitleBar And Subclass it By a Container With Some Controls. the navbar Is As Level Form (ShowWindow=1 inside the Main Form) And Docked To...

• A new VFP top level form titlebar

  10 February 2016 ( #Form titlebar, #API, #container class, #DwmExtendFrameIntoClientArea, #Non client Area )

  this is a new vfp titlebar available on top level form (only).its available for desktop apps. -one solution is to cut the form titlebar and subclass it (by a container...) thats was done in http://yousfi.over-blog.com/2015/02/subclassing-the-form-titlebar-other-stuffs.html...

• Html5 canvas samples Part4

  28 April 2015 ( #Html5, #Canvas, #Visual foxpro, #drawings 2d, #javascript, #animations )

  This chapter is a logic follow to these 3 previous parts.It shows some demos on these titles: -Drawings curves as spirales and animate on canvas -Scaling the canvas -Adding/removing a text paragraph on the canvas -Diffrent gradients linear,radial, filling...

• A Web Charts library.

  23 September 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #charts, #web charts, #Javascript )

  Web charts made with javascript in majority are very usefull. in this demo i choosed the free charts of personal use of fusionChart XT. its wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) with one add :the company logo. I gathered 24 interesting charts (there...

• A web css3 TABS drived from VFP

  02 December 2016 ( #Visual foxpro, #css3, #Tabs, #pageframe )

  this is a custom web TABS , a best modern replacement of vfp pageframe at least for web applications. this contains text+png icon +any html tag in each page as web can provide. the number of labels tabs is limited by the screen and the font used only...

• AnimateWindow API and effects on a VFP form

  07 September 2015 ( #AnimateWindow API, #API, #Form Effects )

  This code uses the animateWindow API to implement some effects on a modal dektop vfp form * ref: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms632669%28v=vs.85%29.aspx the modal form is a desktop one to apply the transparency with setLayeredWindow...

• A vfp Application based on web CSS transparent menu

  05 November 2017 ( #Visual foxpro, #web menu, #css, #web application, #olecontrol, #transparency, #beforenavigate )

  This changes some of the old VFP menus. Current CSS codes are much better. this code builds a desktop application with a top level vfp form. a web transparent menu with html & css is used to launch vfp codes with the ingenious method "beforenavigate"...

• Clean vfp indesirable files as bak,fxp,err

  24 January 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #clean files, #clean recursive, #recycle bin )

  *1* *Along the time some working folders are surcharged of indesirables files such as *bak,fxp,err...time to time we must erase them. *this code below: *cleans current directory with all indesired files as bak,err,fxp *works for current directory *syntaxe...

• A cool desktop zones captures

  19 May 2016 ( #captures, #setlayerdWindow, #gdiplusX, #transparency, #fromscreen, #form movable, #systray )

  this VFP9 application works on systray with a summary contextuel menu(show/hide the form capture and exit application). Can capture any visible zone of the desktop can be achieved with a top level form (alwaysontop=.t. or .f. at runtime) semi transparent...

• Hide any application icon from the taskbar

  05 March 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #taskbar, #API )

  Any windows appstarts with puting an icon on taskbar.This icon gives a windows system menu (maximize, close,size...) This code makes any application icon hidden from the taskbar when running. can visit MSDN https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff700543%28v=vs.85%29.aspx...

• Windows listview on vfp forms

  11 February 2015 ( #Visual foxpro, #listview, #olecontrol )

  The listview is the main control used on windows applications as explorer for ex. its not used too on visual foxpro, because the vfp grid is a main component of data visualisation. the grid is more simple of utilisation but its have some limits. if there...

• drawing text with multi shadow effect

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

  The class ymulti_shadow.vcx makes stacked shadows on a text in imgcanvas of gdiplusX. must execute system.app and points to gdiplus.vcx class (put it in the project folder) simply put it on any form and imitialize the wanted parameters as this demo can...