How To Help Clipper & Foxpro Users Catch Harbour-HMG ASAP!
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:50 am
Hi All,
I believe that all CLipper & Foxpro programmers are facing common problems as how to, as quickly as possible, migrate from under-DOS apps to under-Windos apps. The first problem arising ( as I feel today ) is how to handle with screen area (menus, buttons, boxes, etc) in they way the Windows wants us to write programming codes.
As we know that under MS/IBM DOS, we write codes straight down to destination of row & col, bring togather with content, atribute, etc- to appear directly on screen, WITHOUT tyring bureaucracy!... ... After that we can #savescreen and #restorescreen.
Now, Using GUI (Harbour MiniGUI / HMG) we have to adapt to very different way... First we must handle screen as "windows" entity; first we must declare & define them before we can activate them to appear on screen. The advantage of this new-tech is however: the screen looks very excellent, impressing and mobile.
Our questions (as HMG newbees) and our needs are as follow :
1) How to get a lot of of source codes containing of samples to handle screen-menus ; from basic up to complex/advanced screen-menus?
To answer this questions, pls help us by showing links which permit us to download. And by sharing your source-code available for public.
Screenshoot attached herein, is a sample screen handle we need to implement on our application, ASAP. Being programmers for long time, we need any advanced skill in order to satisfy our users/clients currently still using our DOS-apps-versions.
2) How to avoid one app/EXE is double-run by users in the same computer? This problem never arise under DOS who own a single window. I noticed when execercising HMG-ID (executing IDE.EXE) to build project, the RUN (F5) function fails to detect the problem. that's way HMG-IDE made runtime error as if the mistake came from source program.
3) Why stable version release from official Harbour-Project differ from this forum? The project says the latest stable version is 3.0.0. while this forum says HMG 3.3.1. Any clarification in this matter is urgently needed to avoid confusion.
4) Pls help us describe what the differences between this 3 services you've been provided: Harbour Compiler, Harbour Mini GIU, Harbour-IDE. We need to know exactly when and why use them?
Many thanks for your help. Any contribution in this matter is highly appreciated.
Salam Hangat dari Jakarta.
I believe that all CLipper & Foxpro programmers are facing common problems as how to, as quickly as possible, migrate from under-DOS apps to under-Windos apps. The first problem arising ( as I feel today ) is how to handle with screen area (menus, buttons, boxes, etc) in they way the Windows wants us to write programming codes.
As we know that under MS/IBM DOS, we write codes straight down to destination of row & col, bring togather with content, atribute, etc- to appear directly on screen, WITHOUT tyring bureaucracy!... ... After that we can #savescreen and #restorescreen.
Now, Using GUI (Harbour MiniGUI / HMG) we have to adapt to very different way... First we must handle screen as "windows" entity; first we must declare & define them before we can activate them to appear on screen. The advantage of this new-tech is however: the screen looks very excellent, impressing and mobile.
Our questions (as HMG newbees) and our needs are as follow :
1) How to get a lot of of source codes containing of samples to handle screen-menus ; from basic up to complex/advanced screen-menus?
To answer this questions, pls help us by showing links which permit us to download. And by sharing your source-code available for public.
Screenshoot attached herein, is a sample screen handle we need to implement on our application, ASAP. Being programmers for long time, we need any advanced skill in order to satisfy our users/clients currently still using our DOS-apps-versions.
2) How to avoid one app/EXE is double-run by users in the same computer? This problem never arise under DOS who own a single window. I noticed when execercising HMG-ID (executing IDE.EXE) to build project, the RUN (F5) function fails to detect the problem. that's way HMG-IDE made runtime error as if the mistake came from source program.
3) Why stable version release from official Harbour-Project differ from this forum? The project says the latest stable version is 3.0.0. while this forum says HMG 3.3.1. Any clarification in this matter is urgently needed to avoid confusion.
4) Pls help us describe what the differences between this 3 services you've been provided: Harbour Compiler, Harbour Mini GIU, Harbour-IDE. We need to know exactly when and why use them?
Many thanks for your help. Any contribution in this matter is highly appreciated.
Salam Hangat dari Jakarta.