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Authors:
Marcia Akins,
Jim Booth,
Tamar E. Granor,
Doug Hennig,
Andy Kramek,
Rick Schummer
Length: 24 pages (A4)
Formats Available: Printed (incl. electronic) or Electronic only
Printed format: A4 (210x297 mm or 8.3x11.7 in)
Electronic format: PDF
Single Issue Price ($US): 29.00 (printed+electronic) $19.00 (electronic only)
Press date: March, 2009
Printed issue availability: 2009/03 issue being mailed on 3/05.
Electronic issue availability: Available for download.
Source code: Available for download.
March, 2009 - Number 7
Editorial: Thanks for the Memories
[[Doug Hennig]]
As they discuss in this issue's article, Andy Kramek and Marcia
Akins have written their last Kitbox column. Doug offers a tribute
to Andy and Marcia to celebrate their years of contribution to the
FoxPro community.
VFPX: FoxTabs, The VFP IDE
[[Rick Schummer]]
FoxTabs is relatively new to VFPX, but has been
in development for years. In October 2008 project
manager Joel Leach dusted off the initial development started several years ago by Craig Bailey and
Scott Scovell and began moving the tool forward.
This month Rick will discuss this innovative approach to enhancing the VFP IDE and explain how
he uses it to enhance his productivity.
Deep Dive: Creating Explorer Interfaces in VFP, Part 2
[[Doug Hennig]]
In the first part of this three-part series, Doug presented a set of classes that form the basis of an Explorer-style interface. This article looks at more of
these classes.
[[KitBox]]: So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
[[Marcia Akins]] and [[Andy Kramek]]
For more than 10 years Andy has been writing
the Kitbox Column. He was first published, with
co-author and long-time friend, Paul Maskens, in
the April 1998 edition of FoxTalk. Andy and Paul
wrote some 42 articles together in the three and a
half years of their collaboration and the style of the
column as an interchange between two peers be-
gan to gradually evolve. When Paul retired from
the column in September 2001, Marcia jumped in
and took over as Andy's partner in the column, as
she is in real life. Together they have written more
than seventy articles together and, under their col-
laboration, the back-and-forth style of two real-life
developers discussing a problem of mutual inter-
est evolved further until it truly has become their
unique signature. Andy and Marcia's writings are
instantly recognizable, and their style has even been
imitated (the sincerest form of flattery - even if it
was not very successful). However, like all things,
this too must come to an end and this is the final
offering from Andy and Marcia.
New Ways: The Scope of Things
[[Tamar Granor, PhD]]
When I started using FoxBase+, there were two
kinds of variables available: public and private. If
you did nothing, any variables you used in code
were private. Since that was the most restrictive
scope available, it was easy to get into the habit of
not declaring variables unless they were public.
Best Practices: Best Practices Part III
[[Jim Booth]]
In the last article of this series we covered the concepts of encapsulation and cohesiveness to understand how to construct routines that have a solid
internal structure and we discussed coupling to
investigate the issues involved with constructing
routines that play well with others. Our first venture into this best practices series covered what
constitutes a routine and why we care about routines at all.
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