The strangest thing made with VFP?

[rianeiromiron]

Hello all!!!!!

This is just a simple curiosity from me, but, I would like to know what is the weirdest thing you have made using vfp? As an example (and according to my level of knowledge in VFP, some or a lot of you I suppose are more knoweledgable than me). I had to make an interface for a CAT (Tomography) where I used the serial port to control a device made by an electronics engineer to control the CAT. The other thing I made had to do with rounded corners in windows, where I learned to make multishaped windows (with the help of a guy from Argentina, don't remember the name).
So, what have you done, I would like to know.

bye.

 

[TonyScarpelli]

Does things started and that did not go into fruition count?

Fox products were so good for network data, I was using FoxBase here at the hospital way back. When FoxPro 2.6 came into being my mind was doing things like "What can't I do with this?"

In my off work hours I did consulting work for a friend. I created an advertising accounts program for a multi-media advertising agency whose biggest client was an auto dealer here in Maine. Unfortunately my friend didn't get the bid and the FoxPro program was taken over by someone else. It was good code though.

I also developed a FoxPro application that would send and receive messages to ships at sea. This was for a South African shipping client who eventually dropped the project. This was before cheap satellite communications. I guess they thought the costs were going to be too high. I used "Silver Com" for the communications part.

You know, once you get down to it, FoxPro can do most anything. It's a wonder that Microsoft isn't advertising this product more. You see IBM all over the place, and the .NET ads on TV have stopped. Come on, MS, there's a world of applications still to be done.

Anybody do a media player in FP yet?

CU

Tony Scarpelli
Clinical Engineering Dept.
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine 04102

 

[rgbean]

Tony,
Actually one of the VFP 9.0 Sample apps is the "Fox Media Player" which uses the WMPlayer.OCX. I don't remember seeing any code that couldn't be done in VFP 8.0 though.

Rick

 

[TonyScarpelli]

Rick,

See, there you go. Almost anything can be done in FoxPro. We just had to wait around a bit.

This is such a good language.

CU


Tony Scarpelli
Clinical Engineering Dept.
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine 04102

 

[audiopro]

We did a media player back in 1995 using .wav files for a hospital radio station. MP3 technology was in its infancy then. The main control was a simple database of stored music which users could select. Music control was achieved by API calls to control multi instances of Winamp.
After a faultless demonstration to the assembled committee, they rejected the idea in favour of turntables and stretchy tape machines.
Another opportunity lost - Oh Hum!

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[DrAlbany]

Hi Guys..,

I wrote an MP3 Player using VFP 5 and an API.

Then when I upgraded to VFP8 I used a different Library, and wrote the code to interagate the MP3 data from the MP3 files etc... creating a music management system, oh along with a nice LED VU meter... Well I thought It was cool.

Then out came Music match Jukebox 9 with better features for manipulating the MP3 data, so I stopped developing it <grin>

regards

Steve

Watch ya back, because some times the devil drives a minibus.

 

[mmerlinn]

I am using FP 2.6 to semi-automatically generate HTML and javascript based eBay pages. That is not really all that strange, but I am probably the only eBayer doing that. Much faster using FP than the eBay way, 5-10 minutes vs HOURS per page to do the same job.

Same program also is used to generate groups of inter-related and inter-linked frame based HTML & Javascript web pages. Also not that strange, but again, minutes vs hours to do the same job. With FP I can generate a suite of 65 pages in 20 minutes vs the old way of 5-6 hours per page. And when they need updating it is just a matter of tweaking data in a database and regenning them again.

Best part is that the pages and links ALWAYS work, lol. No more spending hours debugging HTML and javascipt because of some stupid typo or nesting problem or misplaced command.

Cheers all,

mmerlinnd