brian on March 20th, 2009

A new calendar dropdown is available for date fields. See the datefor.prg utility and the customer demo page for usage. The fieldfor utility has been updated to call datefor if the field is a date or datetime.

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brian on March 12th, 2009

I recently gave a talk at the Chicago Foxpro Users Group (FUDG) about Fox Geo.
Fox Geo is a program that I wrote that provides a zip code radius search using the Google Maps API. I borrowed the RenderVML utility from Fox Trails to generate the javascript for the embedded browser control.
The files are available at [...]

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brian on October 31st, 2008

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> [...]

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brian on September 28th, 2008

So this is the new FoxTrails web site. Actually it’s a wordpress blog, cause it happens to be an easy to use content manager.
I’ll be migrating content from the FoxTrails pages on FoxWiki to the site and adding new stuff as time permits. There is an rss feed if you’d like to be updated when [...]

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