Visual Extend 8 0 Rapid Application Development with

Visual Extend 8. 0 Rapid Application Development with VFX 8. 0 Venelina Jordanova, Uwe Habermann Venelina@mnet. bg, Uwe@habermann-leu. de Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Who is talking? § Venelina Jordanova § Dipl. -Inform. Uwe Habermann § Working with Fox. Pro since 10 years § MCP für VFP § Software § Freelancer since 1986 Development Team § Consultant of Pro. Lib, Leader ISYS and other § J. E. I. -Varna companies § Visual Extend Product Manager Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Visual Extend 8. 0 What is this? § Rapid Application Development Framework for VFP 8 § VFX 8. 0 comes with • Template application • Task Pane • Many Builders and Wizards Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Let´s create a Sample Application Venelina´s Fantastic P izzas Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

VFX - Application Wizard § Create new Projects 1. Enter the folder and database 2. Enter texts for the about dialog 3. Make settings for the application object 4. Enter project information 5. Compile all files Let´s go! Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

The generated VFX application ü Splash-Screen ü Login dialog ü Menu and Toolbar ü XP style open dialog ü User management ü User rights ü and much more features. . . Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

What to do now? § Create a database • Using the VFP database designer • Or using x. Case • Or using SDT Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

VFX – Form Wizard § Create forms based on one of the VFX form classes: • • c. Data. Form. Page c. Tree. View. Form c. Table. Form c. One. To. Many c. Tree. View. One. To. Many c. Ask. View. Arg c. Wizard § Based on own form classes Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

VFX – c. Data. Form. Page Builder § Reentrant Builder • Controls on pages of a pageframe • Search grid includes many features • Setting of form properties § Usage of own classes for controls • Corresponding to the DBC settings • Corresponding to the VFX project properties § Example: Customers Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

The Form at runtime § Autoedit § Incrementel search in the grid • Multi-Column-Sort § Search dialog (setting a filter) § Saving settings per user • Size and Position of the form on the desktop • Column width, column order and sort order of grids • Search criteria Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

VFX – c. Table. Form Builder § Reentrant Builder • Controls and search grid side by side • Setting of form properties § Printing, PDF-Export, sending e-mails § Example: Products Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Printing, PDF Export, E-Mail § Printing in all form possible without creating any report § E-Mail creation via • Postscript printer driver • Ghostscript • MAPI Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

VFX - c. One. To. Many Builder § c. One. To. Many • Edit and search of parent data similar to c. Data. Form. Page • Edit child data in a grid • Support of multiple children § Example: Orders. scx Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Pickfields § Select a customer for an order • VFX – CPick. Field Builder § Select a product for an order detail • VFX – CPick. Alter. Textbox Builder Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Linked-Child-Forms § § Call a Child Form Support of multiple Children Hierarchical linking possible Properties for control • l. Close. Childform. On. Exit • l. Auto. Sync. Childform § Example: Customers - Orders Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

VFX – c. Treeview. Form Builder § Reentrant Builder • Treeview controls for hierarchical display of data • Pageframe for editing data • Setting of form properties § Example: Category Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Forms based on Views § Views can be used in all VFX forms classes • thisform. l. Work. On. View=. T. § Enter View Parameters • CAsk. View. Arg. Pgf § Example: Supplier Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

VFX - Product Activation § Integrated Product Activation • For up to 32 rights or modules • Define activation rules • The developer can decide about the activation rules § Create Activation Key • Create activation keys for customers • Support of time limited keys Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

VFX – Product Update § Update customers application via the Internet § Automatic download and installation at the customer Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Links § Download and Information about VFX: • www. visualextend. com § More information about VFX: • www. my-vfx. de § Free Support for VFX in English and German: • News: //news. dfpug. de Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004

Thank you very much and Have fun with VFX! Venelina Jordanova & Uwe Habermann Visual Fox. Pro Dev. Con, Praha 2004