Sample Programs Or Program Examples

[Cotswold GB]

Hello &All
I have searched Harbour, HUG, GitHub and the internet for examples of completed

program (.prg)  files without success.  There are many helpful code examples, snippets

you may call them. The Harbour download itself has  236 .prg files, most of which are

helpful. I have amended a couple of my old Clipper87 programs to run in Harbour but

think apart from taking some of their functions, I would be better re-writing them in 

Harbour.

Searches on the internet generally confuse Harbour Programming with Harbor and

nautical matters. In fact if you want to build your own harbour or harbor a bureaucrat 

has helpfully provided instructions on how to do just that! 

The Harbour website suggests the-oasis.net but this contains no examples at all from

what I can see and no shortcuts unless you want to learn how to gamble and loose  

against a super computer.

If someone could point me in the direction to samples and examples of harbour PRGs, I

I would greatly appreciate that.  I did think that when I'd completed some of my own

software, I could issue them but cannot see a website, unless I created my own on 

GitHub.

Vincent

[Klas Engwall]

Hi Vincent,

> I have searched Harbour, HUG, GitHub and the internet for examples
> of completed program (.prg)  files without success.  There are many
> helpful code examples, snippets you may call them. The Harbour
> download itself has  236 .prg files, most of which are helpful. I
> have amended a couple of my old Clipper87 programs to run in
> Harbour but think apart from taking some of their functions, I would
> be better re-writing them in Harbour.

I am not really sure what you expect to find when you search all over
the web for "completed programs". You have to realize that Harbourians
almost exclusively write business software, either tailor made for a
specific client and paid for by that client, or commercial applications
that are sold to many different customers. In both cases, publishing the
source code on the web would cause problems, legal and economic. So I
think you will ever only find the snippets that are meant as little
examples of what can be done or how to solve a specific problem.

> Searches on the internet generally confuse Harbour Programming with
> Harbor and nautical matters. In fact if you want to build your own
> harbour or harbor a bureaucrat has helpfully provided instructions
> on how to do just that!

Yes that is true. Harbour is a play with words, meaning that Clipper has
arrived at a safe harbour. To appreciate the joke you have to be
familiar with the ocean facing Nantucket where Nantucket Software
created Clipper, and with the big sailing clipper ships that inspired
the name.

In the real world of software the name was a mistake. As you have
noticed, every coastal city on the planet has one or more Harbour
projects, so web searches for Harbour the software is very difficult.
That's life.

> The Harbour website suggests the-oasis.net but this contains no
> examples at all from what I can see and no shortcuts unless you
> want to learn how to gamble and loose against a super computer.

the-oasis.net was owned and maintained by Phil Barnett. When he passed
away in the middle of the previous decade someone else took over the
domain and created a gambling site instead. Viktor Szakáts took a copy
from the Wayback Machine and put it in the Harbour repository on GitHub,
but it was later removed. I don't know the reason for that. I think you
can still find it at the Wayback Machine, but you have to select a year
before 2015 or so.

Regards,
Klas

[Franz]

try this  https://hmgextended.com/files/CONTRIB/hmg-23.10-setup.exe

a complete way to start in Harbour World with a simple GUI and tons of samples code.

[Cotswold GB]

Thanks for your reply Klas. I understand what you are saying and that applications could
not be issued as specifically written for clients. Also, to operate they will need the
authour's own private libraries and functions which they certainly could not issue.

I am always looking for an alternative to Access, which I have used to create commercial
applications for over 20 years. I did at one point five years ago think that PureBasic would
be suitable but that failed to be the case. At  the time I was put off by Harbour's more
esoteric requirements to just get started.  Plus the lack of a searchable Language Reference 

and manual didn't assist . 

But in retrospect should have persevered. I recall a simple example on the PureBasic website 

YADA - Yet Another Database Application using SQLite, a simple address program which showed 

methods that I wouldn't have come across for months. Its general design was not to my 

liking but I changed and adapted it to suit my way of working. But it did move me forward 

quickly. The PureBasic website does include a huge number of programs submitted by some

elite guys.

I'll amend one of my old Clipper87 programs and incorporate functions never used like
Code Blocks, TBrowse and stuff like hb_DispOutAt(). I will say that I have found
\hb32\tests\wvtext.prg and others interesting and helpful.

Franz, I did think I'd get some harbour programs running before I looked at GUI software.
However, I've downloaded MiniGUI and installed it. I'll take a look, certainly loads of examples. 

Coincidentally, I was looking through the manual for MinuGUI the other day.

Vincent

[Daniele Campagna]

I  remember that a developer took the brave decision to "publish" the
source code of a complete POS program, that's to say that he attached
the prgs to his post. Unfortunately I can't remember if it was Harbour
or xHarbour NG/mailing list. Maybe someone here can remember what I am
talking about...

HTH

Dan

[trepao2...@gmail.com]

Complete harbour ERP from Manuel Calero

It's need fwh commercial lib

https://github.com/manuelcalerosolis/Gestool

[Juice Orchid]

Maybe you can search "jimmie webb" at group

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[Riztan Gutierrez]

hello, below is the link to a base application. Multiplatform, maybe you can contribute something. It uses GTK as GUI (t-gtk), with this package you can test harbour and contributions like hbpgsl, tdolphin, hbcurl, hbnetio (client) and obviously t-gtk; all from scripts, you don't need to compile, so you can leave compiling for later.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hbtools/files/TPuy%20-%20%28Binarios%20Windows%29/TPuy_0.6.2%28rc%29_with_PapayaPOS.exe/download

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW2GOfaMuR8
Here you can see a video that shows what the included package did (papaya POS inactive for now) that basically consists of connecting to a harbour server (hbnetio) and through it to access the remote objects (in the client the variables defined with " r" at the beginning. In this way from the client application you make use of remote objects as if they were local objects.

Regards

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hola, a continuación el enlace a una aplicación base. Multiplataforma, quizás pueda aportar algo. Usa GTK como interfaz gráfica (t-gtk), con este paquete puedes hacer pruebas del funcionamiento de harbour y contribuciones como hbpgsl, tdolphin, hbcurl, hbnetio (cliente) y obviamente t-gtk; todo desde scripts, no necesitas compilar, de manera que lo de compilar lo puedes dejar para después.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hbtools/files/TPuy%20-%20%28Binarios%20Windows%29/TPuy_0.6.2%28rc%29_with_PapayaPOS.exe/download

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW2GOfaMuR8
Acá puedes ver un vídeo que muestra un poco lo que hacía el paquete incluido (papaya POS inactivo por ahora) que consiste básicamente en conectar a un servidor harbour (hbnetio) y a través del mismo acceder a los objetos remotos (en el cliente las variables definidas con " r" al inicio. De esta forma desde la aplicación cliente haces uso de objetos remotos como si de objetos locales se tratara.

Saludos

[Cotswold GB]

Thanks Riztan, I've now downloaded that and will take a look. I've watched some 

of the video and will look at it later on a PC with speakers.