FoxyPreviewer3 and its files

FoxyPreviewer3 needs to create several files in order to run, so here I will explain what happens behind the scenes, so that people can get the most benefit from it.

Initilization

At initialization, FP search for 2 files - if not found it will restore from the embedded app

 - LibHaru.dll - the PDF engine created by Takeshi Kano, that is used to generate PDFfiles using ".nPDFType=1". This file will be stored at the same folder that FoxyPreviewer.App resides.

 - FoxyPreviewer_Settings.dbf - stores the user customized settings. This table can be edited as you like. Whenever a user changes an option in the settings screen it gets updated, and it will be loaded at initialization. This file will be recreated if you delete it.

Folders

Also at initialization 3 folders will be created:

 - \FP_IMAGES - Here all the images used for creating the toolbar buttons will reside. FP3 will restore them from the APP, and whenever you or your users change the button colors or behaviors, the new images created will be stored there. If you open that folder, you'll see all buttons that you used previously. The images are stored there physically so that in the next run they wont need to be recreated. All buttons, the original, the new "font based" buttons need some GDI+ processing, and some users could not like the delay needed to recreate them at each run. If you remove any image, or even the whole folder FP3 will recreate it on the next run.

FoxyPreviewer3 and sending e-mails

FoxyPreviewer3 - Getting support

When asking for support for FoxyPreviewer, to help me reproducing your environment, please immediately after your issue execute the following line of code:

_Screen.oFoxyPreviewer.GetFoxyScript()

This will create a script that will help me to mimic partially your environment, so that I can reproduce what is happening at your side.

Please revise that file, erase any data that you feel is sensitive and send it for support.

FoxyPreviewer3 and localization strings

FoxyPreviewer's default language is English.

Right now there is suport to 22 languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Persian, Arabic, Italian, Indonesian, Polish, Swahili, Russian , Simplified Chinese , Traditional Chinese , Dutch, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Kazakh and Serbian.

Special tweaks were applied to allow double-byte languages, such as Chinese and Japanese.

To change the default language there are 2 options:

1 - Setting the _Screen.oFoxyPreviewer object, by passing  pass the English language name or the local language name - for instance, to change the language to French or spanish:

_Screen.oFoxyPreviewer.cLanguage = "SPANISH"  && or
_Screen.oFoxyPreviewer.cLanguage = "ESPANIOL"

_Screen.oFoxyPreviewer.cLanguage = "FRENCH"   && or
_Screen.oFoxyPreviewer.cLanguage = "FRANÇAIS"

2 - Users can change by themselves to their desired language in the Settings form:

Some of the languages are not updated. FP3 brings new facilities and dialogs that still need to be updated.. 

If you're interested, please download the Localizations table from the link below and send it back to vfpimaging at hotmail dot com

I'll be happy to update the localizations table in the future updates.

Download FoxyPreviewer Locs.dbf