Applications created using VFX

Applications which have been developed using Visual FoxPro together with the Application Development Framework Visual Extend will have the following characteristics:

• Ready for Office Compatible certification
• Standard Toolbar, including optional toolbars for any form
• Navigation, Search, New, Edit, Delete optional on form or on main toolbar
• Multi instance of forms (optional)
• Recently Used File List in file menu, actually open windows in window menu
• Incremental Search including autosort in all VFX grids
• Alternate Sort by doubleclicking on any column header in any VFX grid
• Show actual sort in column header
• Auto Save and Restore of size and position of any form
• Auto Save of all grid layout changes including the current sort
• Tooltips in the language of your application
• Picklist control with auto-validation and optional data fetching (foreign key)
• Picklist Form with incremental search, auto-sort, alternate sort by doubleclicking
• Auto-save and restore of size and position of picklist forms including picklist
• User Access Management including password encryption
• Database Tools for packing, reindexing and repairing of local tables
• Complete Error Tracking System
• System Logfile
• System Locking table for optional semaphore locking schemes
• About Dialog
• User friendly mover dialogs for easy selection of multiple elements
• Powerful picklist object within childgrid
• Automatic synch with windows system colors
• Easy to use OneToMany forms
• Powerful linked child forms

Key Features

Software Developers using Visual Extend will appreciate the following features:

• Application Builder for the automatic generation of new applications in the language of your choice. After just a few seconds, your distribution ready Visual FoxPro application is prepared!
• The complete Application Development Framework covers already all user interface elements in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Start a new application in the language of your choice without translating a single word of the Visual Extend Application Development Framework
• Builders for standard forms including master and child Form technique (Calling and Called By)
• Builder for Power Grids
• Builder for all your picklist needs
• Builders for classical OneToMany Forms as well as advanced OneToMany Forms including tab dialog for the master and another tab dialog for multiple childs all on one form
• Form Builders will automatically size any textbox controls according current field length
• VFX is Codebook compliant (DBCX standard), works perfectly with other DBCX compliant add ons like STONEFIELD Database Toolkit, FoxFire or others.
• VFX is ready to use with the STONEFIELD database toolkit, just set one constant to true and you are up and running with SDT
• All Builders get the field descriptions automatically from the data dictionary and additional information from the DBCX standard resp. directly from the STONEFIELD database toolkit.
• Visual Extend Power Toolbar including setting of property of multiple selected objects during form design, autosize and even more
• Use the VFX form builders on own VFX based form classes
• Run forms directly from form designer
• Toolbar Navigation or Navigation Buttons on form
• Language Setup builder
• Messagebox Builder
  Application Manager
• Easy subclassing of the application class and setup of the environment class
• Easy setup of app specific main toolbars
  Easy switch between navigation and other command buttons on the form or on the main toolbar
• Incredible easy linked child form techniques
• Powerful VFX class switcher for forms and controls