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I had someone contact me recently asking about the status of Visual FreePro, Jr.
I've gone through three iterations of different ways to apply the internal logic and design of Visual FreePro into a new product. I've currently settled on a 4th that I'm developing presently. I'm not sure I'll release it publicly once it's completed, which I anticipate being in March, 2025, primarily because it's not really a general purpose tool but more of a specialized C/C++ library API to make development in C/C++ with XBASE-like features easier.
We'll see when the time gets closer though. Still a lot of work to do.
To everyone who's supported me over the years: Thank you. Here's a basic overview of what happened:
1. July 12, 2012 -- Development on Visual FreePro began
2. 2014 -- Visual FreePro, Jr. development begins
3. 2016 -- I got a Hep-B vaccine that made me deathly sick. It took me until 2019 to recover from it. All development on Visual FreePro, Jr. stopped in 2016.
4. 2018 -- I had an idea for a CPU design called Inspire, and began working on that. I completed the work in 2022.
5. 2023 -- Work resumed on Visual FreePro. I created versions of it with the codenames DataHorse, DataFlow, and finally FreeFlow. Each of those were slightly different APIs than the standard Visual FoxPro type IDE, but with the same basic code under the hood, plus some new ways to visualize data and program flow.
6. 2024 -- My current iteration is codenamed Dori. Dori will be my last iteration of it and is somewhat scaled back from the original full version. It's designed to work in concert with C/C++ so you can do XBASE things easily in C/C++ code.
If anyone would like more information, please email me. My full name as below (as rick.c.hodgin) at gmail.
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Rick C. Hodgin
I've gone through three iterations of different ways to apply the internal logic and design of Visual FreePro into a new product. I've currently settled on a 4th that I'm developing presently. I'm not sure I'll release it publicly once it's completed, which I anticipate being in March, 2025, primarily because it's not really a general purpose tool but more of a specialized C/C++ library API to make development in C/C++ with XBASE-like features easier.
We'll see when the time gets closer though. Still a lot of work to do.
To everyone who's supported me over the years: Thank you. Here's a basic overview of what happened:
1. July 12, 2012 -- Development on Visual FreePro began
2. 2014 -- Visual FreePro, Jr. development begins
3. 2016 -- I got a Hep-B vaccine that made me deathly sick. It took me until 2019 to recover from it. All development on Visual FreePro, Jr. stopped in 2016.
4. 2018 -- I had an idea for a CPU design called Inspire, and began working on that. I completed the work in 2022.
5. 2023 -- Work resumed on Visual FreePro. I created versions of it with the codenames DataHorse, DataFlow, and finally FreeFlow. Each of those were slightly different APIs than the standard Visual FoxPro type IDE, but with the same basic code under the hood, plus some new ways to visualize data and program flow.
6. 2024 -- My current iteration is codenamed Dori. Dori will be my last iteration of it and is somewhat scaled back from the original full version. It's designed to work in concert with C/C++ so you can do XBASE things easily in C/C++ code.
If anyone would like more information, please email me. My full name as below (as rick.c.hodgin) at gmail.
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Rick C. Hodgin