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Compile your own application-specific version of the Desktop Alerts for each application, and include it (along with ALERT.WAV) with your installer.

After 4 years in beta, I've (finally) posted a new version of the Desktop Alerts as a Production Release on VFPX.

I use the Microsoft Web Browser Control as the primary UI for an app. This means I need a ton of support files like cascading stylesheets, javascript files, images, etc. Typically, I create a subfolder in the Windows “Temp” (SYS(2023)) folder for the HTML files, then subfolders for each of the support file types (CSS, JS, IMG). I don’t like to install the support files with the app, because there’s...

I recently added some functionality to an app which allows the app to login to a web service with a username and password. Since I want to retain the login information (so the user doesn’t have to be prompted to enter their credentials every time), I store the username and password in an XML “settings” file. I’ve been using Craig Boyd’s excellent VFPEncryption FLL to encrypt/decrypt the password. The user enters her username...

Andrew MacNeill has posted FoxShow #71, which includes an interview with Christophe Unrug from FoxInCloud. I had the privilege to meet Thierry Nivelet at last years Southwest Fox conference, and I hope he’ll be back at this years conference. Very interesting (and impressive!) stuff they’re working...