Wrapped Text with GDIPlusX
A technique for rendering Wrapped text using GDIPlusX
Friday, January 11, 2008 7:56:52 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)       Comments [9]  GDI Plus | VFP Development

The GDIPlusX Library Has Been Updated...Into Production

The GDIPlusX library, part of the VFPX project, has been updated and moved into production status. Rumor has it that many people were using it in a production environment already (including myself) but now its official.

With this release we have added SYSTEM.APP. This APP includes the entire library in a single distributable. Rick Strahl made this recommendation at SWFox and we liked the idea. Of course, if you prefer to compile the library into your own application, you can do still do that also. All of the source is still downloadable from VFPX.

A few other features were packed into this release based on feedback that we have received in the past few months. We would like to thank Christof Wollenhaupt, Alan Stevens, Carlos Alloatti, several members of the Foxite message board and of course Craig Boyd for your valuable contributions. Special thanks to Cesar Chalom for all of his efforts in this last release. Most all of the new enhancements were added by Cesar as well as several cool new samples…if you haven’t downloaded it yet, you should really check it out as well as the other great projects on VFPX.

Friday, January 11, 2008 7:12:44 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)       Comments [4]  

An updated version of the GDIPlusX library has been posted

It has taken a while, but the GDIPlusX library is finally converted to be PRG based and has been upgraded from Alpha to Beta status. The new 1.00b version can be downloaded from here. But you should always check the GDIPlusX home page for the latest version.

There were several advantages to converting the library as I described in a message on the VFPX discussion board. The library is faster, smaller and more stable than before.

Special thanks to Cesar Chalom. Most all of the bug fixes and new features were added by him over the past couple of months while I converted the library.

We will hopefully update the project again from Beta to Production status by next month. We welcome any feedback. If you have any issues with the library, make sure you post them in the Issue Tracker so they can be prioritized and voted on.

For my next Blog entry I will discuss a little project Craig Boyd and I started on that will allow any VFP object (with a Picture property) to become a canvas object and have an associated Graphics object. There is a small sample posted on VPFX that demos this new functionality.

 

Thursday, August 16, 2007 3:32:21 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)       Comments [9]  

Insert Images into an RTF control using GDIPlusX
Programmatically insert images into the Rich Text control using this technique
Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:11:49 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)       Comments [11]  GDI Plus | VFP Development

HTML Tables and Styles

Have you ever tried to add borders to individual cells in an HTML table using style sheets? Something similar to <table border="1"> only done with CSS.

I had a requirement to put a 1 pixel black border between all cells in an HTML table. I wanted to do this without having to put a style or class attribute into every cell in the table. I thought: "How hard can this be?". There has to be a way of doing this with a single style attribute.

But after a quick search on the web with too many non-relevant results, (I mean what can you search for that doesn't bring back over a million hits). I decided to come up with my own technique:

<style type="text/css">

  table.border tr td,
  table.border tr th {border:1px solid black;}

  table.border {border-collapse:collapse;}

</style>

 

<table class="border">

  <tr>

    <th>Header 1</th> 

    <th>Header 2</th> 

    <th>Header 3</th> 

    <th>Header 4</th> 

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>Data 1</td> 

    <td>Data 2</td> 

    <td>Data 3</td> 

    <td>Data 4</td> 

  </tr>

  <tr>

    <td>Data 1</td> 

    <td>Data 2</td> 

    <td>Data 3</td> 

    <td>Data 4</td> 

  </tr>

</table>

Yields the following output:

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3	Header 4
Data 1	Data 2	Data 3	Data 4
Data 1	Data 2	Data 3	Data 4

Is there a better way of doing this?

Bo Durban

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:13:21 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)       Comments [9]  Web Development

I have entered the world of blogging

After much prodding, mostly by Craig Boyd, I have finally set up a blog. I plan to post some of my daily ramblings here under the Moxie Data banner.

I’m using the dasBlog based on Craig’s recommendation. It was fairly easy to set up and customize. So far, so good.

Tomorrow I will post something a little more technical, but for now I want to encourage anyone who has not signed up for a conference yet this year, to do so. The quality of session topics is better than ever plus there are several new speakers bringing in some fresh ideas.

I will be speaking at the FoxForward conference in Alpharetta, GA on September 7th-9th, 2007. It is super convenient for me (about 30 miles away) and only a few miles north of downtown Atlanta. Kevin Cully did a great job putting this conference together last year. His first ever. So I look "forward" to what he has in store for this year.

I will also be at the Southwest Fox conference in Mesa, AZ on October 18th-21st, 2007. I will hopefully be doing a vendor session to show off some of the new reporting enhancements in Sedna and how we are leveraging them in our Moxie Objects 2.0 product.  I have attended SWFox for the past 2 years and have always had a great time. If you are going, I recommend you plan an extra day to take in the sites in and around Phoenix.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by. Check back soon. Over the next few days I will be posting some examples using the GDIPlusX library, part of the VFPX project on Codeplex. I have a long way to go to catch up to the number of great articles and blog entries potsed by Cesar Chalom.

Bo Durban

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 3:51:47 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)       Comments [17]  General