I am an advocate of free software. In late 2010 I began working on a free software project (currently unreleased) called Visual FreePro.
Visual FreePro was to be a VFP9 follow-on (since Microsoft killed it). My idea was to have 75% support directly in source code (up to 75% VFP commands would run without any source code changes), to have 15% of VFP code needing slight modifications, and the remaining 10% would be thrown out and replaced with other code I would like to see. I was also going to provide full (true) backward compatibility support from the DOS-based versions of FoxBASE+ on through the FoxPro for Windows versions, allowing those apps to run 100% without any modifications.
I am wondering if anybody here would like to participate in such a project?
I have the application started in Linux, written in GNU's C++ compiler. I have the class structure setup (which allows everything else to work with dot references, including _vfp, _screen, etc.), part of the source code parsing engine completed (for an unrelated project I worked on), and in terms of "the next thing to do," am ready to start working on that part of it (source code execution).
I have considered continuing this project but have not worked on it much since early 2011. The time may be for this project to take off again.
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
Visual FreePro was to be a VFP9 follow-on (since Microsoft killed it). My idea was to have 75% support directly in source code (up to 75% VFP commands would run without any source code changes), to have 15% of VFP code needing slight modifications, and the remaining 10% would be thrown out and replaced with other code I would like to see. I was also going to provide full (true) backward compatibility support from the DOS-based versions of FoxBASE+ on through the FoxPro for Windows versions, allowing those apps to run 100% without any modifications.
I am wondering if anybody here would like to participate in such a project?
I have the application started in Linux, written in GNU's C++ compiler. I have the class structure setup (which allows everything else to work with dot references, including _vfp, _screen, etc.), part of the source code parsing engine completed (for an unrelated project I worked on), and in terms of "the next thing to do," am ready to start working on that part of it (source code execution).
I have considered continuing this project but have not worked on it much since early 2011. The time may be for this project to take off again.
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin