I’ve added a few new utilities to Fox Trails, mainly a few more field builders. They are undocumented at this point, but given the right parameters, they will work. These builders (utilities ending in “for”) require that you include both prototype.js and helpers.js in your .vml template.
You can do this by adding <script type=”text/javascript” src=”<<webroot>>/lib/somefilename.js”></script> [...]
Randy Jean has been a colleague and personal friend for over 10 years. We first worked together at a company called Synergy Systems in Elkhart Indiana. While at Synergy Systems, I gained a deep respect for his abilities as a Foxpro developer.
When I created Fox Trails (known then as VFP on Rails), I asked Randy [...]
I’ve been asked in the past why I chose to release Fox Trails to the public domain. I mean, why not sell it as a commercial product or at least ensure that it’s “protected” by an open-source licensing agreement?
Maybe I’m just a nice guy, maybe I haven’t imbibed any gpl kool-aid recently, or perhaps it’s [...]
I attended a recent Guineu presentation at the Chicago FUDG meeting. The prospect of running Fox Trails from .Net without the need to use the COM Interop layer is very compelling.
This opens a number of alternatives as well, such as running Fox Trails from Linux or OS X servers running Apache and mono. Way cool.
During a recent presentation of Fox Trails, I got some feedback that it might be nice to be able to invoke it from alternative web pages instead of from ASP.Net. Here’s a summary of what would be required to do so, along with a sample php page.
The core functionality of the Default.aspx page is to simply [...]
Fox Trails was designed to be embeddable in existing Foxpro Applications. You have a few different options for this.
The easiest means is to simply reference your database files from within a separate Fox Trails installation. I’d recommend making a Foxtrails subdirectory in your main application folder. Recompile the project and follow the steps in our getting [...]
Fox Trails was designed to be both easy to install and easy to maintain.
Fox Trails may be downloaded from our subversion repository, choose the tarball next to the FoxTrails trunk. Extract the tarball to the location of your choice. For simplicity, we’ll assume it’s installed in C:\foxtrails.
You may also download Fox Trails using a subversion [...]