I can see you have a lot of experience in this type of thing. I was hoping to run Qpro and bring up reciepts that had been scanned and view them with quickview or PV. I run dos mostly to use qpro; a link to quickview would add alot to qpro. A fast way to review numbers.
Many thanks. cheers DS On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 19:08:22 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 4:03 PM Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > > > Dennis > > > > I think you were saying that TCL was used to link programs > together. > > Well, to tie them together. Linking is a different thing. You can > think of TCL as a vastly more powerful version of a batch file, > calling other programs from the script with execution guided by the > results of previous calls. (In DOS batch you can use things like > "if > errorlevel" to determine the success or failure of a previous > process > and do different things depending on whether or not the previous > program succeeded. Of course, this requires the programs you run > exit > with a return code that DOS can store and access. Not all did.) > > In Don Libes' Expect application written in TCL, I could to things > like use TCL to spawn an application to communicate to a remote host > that expected interactive execution, and use the TCL "expect" > command > with a parameter of *what* to expect to grab the prompt from the > host > and do the next thing needed in response, so I could log on to the > remote host and run commands on it and collect results > automatically, > and not have to be manually controlling the process. (I had one job > that ran at midnight, connected to a Unix host, and collected job > status reports which it then sent along to an NT server that was > accessible from the outside world so the clients could see the > status > of what we were doing for them. We *weren't* comfortable opening > ports on our firewall to let them get directly to the Unix server, > and > it wasn't necessary. Just put the reports on a server they *could* > get to and let them grab them. And this happened automatically > while > we all slept. > > > Is it possible to use it to link qpro to quickview. > > Could I open quickview while runing qpro. > > If anyone would know it would be you. > > Under a multi-tasking OS like Linux or Windows, likely. Under a > single tasking OS like DOS, likely *not*. > > If it could be done, it would require suspending Qpro and opening > Quickview. I recall doing things like that in DOS using TSRs, where > the TSR display opened over what the running program had on screen. > The currently running program was suspended while the TSR ran, and > when you left the TSR, execution resumed on the underlying program. > Unless Quickview can be implemented as a TSR to pop up over QPro, I > don't see this working. And I assume you would want to do it > interactively, and press something like a hotkey combo to pop up > Quickview. TCL can't do that for you. It's intended for > *unattended* > processing. > > I'm afraid TCL isn't the tool for the job you want to do. > > > cheers > > DS > ______ > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ All Natural "Miracle Oil" Works Wonders! (Now Legal) onedaytorunlive.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5d94f72b6a793772b0b87st03duc _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
