FoxyDialog Questions

[stanlyn]

Hi,

Anyone here using these vfp tools as they really give vfp a modern look in the dialogs arena? As I now attempt to integrate this, how do I pre-populate a textbox via code? Such as doing a table lookup and stuffing the returned values into the textbox. Where can I get the version that has hyperlinks capability? Is there a paid version of this, and if so where?

Thanks, Stanley

 

[Mike Lewis]

You presumably already know that the full documentation is here:

http://vfpimaging.blogspot.com/2020/06/foxydialogs-v10-going-much-forward-with.html

To pre-populate the textbox, you use the tcnDefault parameter, which is the second-to-last parameter. You can see an example in Sample 12 in the above documentation. I'm not aware of any support for hyperlinks. Perhaps that's something you would like to add yourself (the source code is available).

There's no paid-for version, but you could always offer a donation.

Mike



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[stanlyn]

Thanks Mike,

I already figured it out and why I had issues was I was not trimming the return result and the textbox was showing the end of the string which looked blank. Once I trimmed it before assigning it to tcnDefault, it became visible. Without trimming, I only saw a blued (selected textbox that I thought was empty.

If you look near the bottom of the above mentioned document, you will see this that suggests more in the pipeline...

Thanks again, Stanley

 

[Mike Lewis]

Yes, I saw that list of features in the pipeline. And of course, you are free to suggest further features yourself (use the Comment box for that).

I still don't see any reference to hyperlinks. Do you have any information about that?

Mike

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[stanlyn]

Hi Mike,

Yes, here is a clip from the included .chm file. It also talks about it not being part of the demo version...

 

[Mike Lewis]

Stanley, I wonder if we are talking about the same product. I have FoxyDialog 2.41, dated 13/6/20. It does not have a CHM file. It uses a library named vfp2c32.fll. Your screen shot seems to belong to xmsg.fll.

Mike



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[stanlyn]

Mike,
That very well could be true as I was testing them both and later decided to go with Foxy. I looked everywhere through the Foxy docs, articles and web pages for the hyperlink stuff so to send you the info. I couldn't find it anywhere and knew that I had seen it as well as the demo comment. Then I looked to the chm on my desktop and found it, and as you pointed out it was from the previous testing, and looks a lot like Foxy. Thanks for pointing that out, and after working most of yesterday integrating Foxy, I need to reevaluate xmsg because of the extra capabilities. Take a look at the attached chm.

https://files.engineering.com/getfi...b17-4282-b958-b9fed22aa359&file=xmsg_help.chm

Where did you see the 2.41 version number for Foxy?

Thanks again,
Stanley

 

[vernpace]

FoxyDialog was based on work done by Anatolyi Mogylevets. He created around a half dozen FLLs that were available on news2news.com for a nominal fee - one was xmsg.fll and it came with a CHM file. Unfortunately, it is not available on VFPX GitHub.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Where did you see the 2.41 version number for Foxy?

In the comments at the top of FOXYDIALOG.PRG. That's also where I found the release date.

Mike

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