Desktop Alerts – Kevin Ragsdale

Desktop Alerts Tip: Building App-Specific Alert EXE’s

Kevin Ragsdale — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:57:34 +0000

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

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Desktop Alerts 1.0.0 (Production Release)

Kevin Ragsdale — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:36:45 +0000

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

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From A Hog To Just A Pig With A Simple Windows API Call

Kevin Ragsdale — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:50:51 +0000

Reducing memory consumption of your Visual FoxPro apps is easily done with a couple of Windows API calls, thanks to Sergey.

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Catastrophic Failure and Desktop Alerts

Kevin Ragsdale — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:45:27 +0000

Yesterday, I posted a screenshot of my scariest error message. It was a message I had gotten while playing with the Desktop Alerts. Randy Jean commented that he saw the same error with the Desktop Alerts. In the Alert class nResult_Assign() method, I had the Alert calling its Release() method. So, if you had code like this: oMgr = CreateObject("VFPAlert.AlertManager") […]

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What’s the Scariest Error Message You’ve Ever Seen?

Kevin Ragsdale — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:33:44 +0000

Here’s mine: Right in the middle of a presentation, too. What’s the scariest error message you’ve ever seen? This post originally appeared on the Foxite Weblogs site.

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