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Re: [NF] RE: Revenue model for open source databases

2006-10-30 Thread Andy Davies
Jeff Fisher said "Before the PC, there was the mini/mainframe where people paid a LOT of money for software." latterly, yes; but in the sixties/ early seventies you paid for the hardware and the OS and even application software was thrown in for free. IBM even supplied people called iirc 'systems

Re: Debits/credits database design

2006-10-30 Thread Andy Davies
my advice would be not to re-invent the wheel - you're talking about accounts and its been invented to death already - just use Quicken ( I share Les Pinter's admiration for the user interface) - or check the Fox ad's for a Fox package. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)#

RE: a FoxPro entry in the daily WTF

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
>What I have found especially useful has been VFP's ability to store >functional class definitions in local metadata and instantiate them on the >fly when needed. >Andy Kramek as I have commented before on this list I usually find myself in complete agreement with Andy Kramek but always with one e

Re: [NF] MS SQL Server dump

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
well I know some old 'nix-head dba's who would never look at the api for that (or anything else!) - they'd just go to the os and copy the underlying tables! Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any f

Re: [NF] RE: Revenue model for open source databases

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
Chet said "...the IBM's were still crippled by that DAMNED, IMPENETRABLE, EXCREBLE OS JCL " it got a bit opaque for the later OS's but I didn't think the DOS JCL was too bad - and if needed it was quite possible to read through the whole OS and see what it was doing**. You could just about do it

Re: [NF] RE: Revenue model for open source databases

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
Whil said "Ah, yes, Burroughs one of the BUNCH." aka the seven dwarves Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the

Re: [NF] RE: Revenue model for open source databases

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
>aka the seven dwarves by amazing coincidence I just opened Computer Weekly (UK mag) and they mention Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in the lead article - it's their 40th anniversary edition (I'd been in computing for about 18 months when I got the invite for a free subscription). Apparently th

Re: Play sound without chr(7)/set bell to 'file'

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
>WinPlaySound("c:\sit.wav",0,0) btw sit.wav is supposed to be the sound that tells those unsolicited automated phone callers that your number doesn't exist - hear it at http://www.hawthorn-cottage.com/sit.wav Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# *

Re: Play sound without chr(7)/set bell to 'file'

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
Charlie Coleman said: 've used this: *-- Playsound - parameters file, module?, type (play flags) *-- Pass: pnPlayType - 1 - Ascynch, 2 - Nodefault sound 0 -Synch *-- 4 - Kill currently playing sound *-- 8 - Continous nice - certainly better tha

Re: Can you spot the difference ?

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
nor can I - got the code? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# "Eurico"

RE: VFP 5.0 : Text files

2006-10-31 Thread Andy Davies
>... the bootstrap loader is virtually the same as DOS ... >HALinNY wrote one of those once (for the IBM 360) - that really was getting down to the nitty gritty. Not everyone realised it but you could punch hex machine code into an 80 col card by hand; the machine was hard wired to read in iirc 40

Re: Returning one (or more) values from a form, including arrnys - non-OOP

2006-11-01 Thread Andy Davies
>> = myCustomerFunc(@first,@last,@phone) ? >The function isn't returning values, but modifying references. I'll wager at least a pint that under the hood: varX = myFn(z) passes a pointer to varX which is used by myFn to update the value of varX so what's the difference? Andrew Davies  MBCS C

Re: 0xIDE / xBase++ / IronPython

2006-11-01 Thread Andy Davies
William Sanders said "...the Clipper Precompiler beastie." Bill, do you mean the #define compiler or the pre-compile phase of the [Clipper] compiler? the # beastie was basically an elegant if somewhat obscure language that allowed you to define your own commands. the precompiler converted all com

RE: [ADMIN] Yet another tech test

2006-11-07 Thread Andy Davies
Virgil Bierschwale said: ...about linux being ready for the desktop or home computer. I'd never tried it till the last few weeks, so I gave my opinion. I have no comments about linux for the desktop per se - but is a few weeks long enough to form a good opinion? - how long did it take, over the y

Re: VFP web services

2006-11-07 Thread Andy Davies
Give up Allen - not only do web services fail but xmlhttp (which *does* work) is apparently the latest ie7 exploit so expect to see ms's 'fix' kill that as well! Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)#

Re: Copying databases.

2006-11-07 Thread Andy Davies
>What do people suggest gendb[x] ?? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are

Re: [NF] Anti-piracy email from the BSA

2006-11-08 Thread Andy Davies
Chet said "I didn't know they were still making motorcycles..." in today's climate they've probably gone back to making small arms . Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with i

Re: [NF] Anti-piracy email from the BSA

2006-11-08 Thread Andy Davies
jml said: ... http://www.bsaoc.demon.co.uk/ thanks for the link Jean - I've got a couple of ex-military C15's lying doing nothing in the attic - maybe this will get me started on that restoration project (another one for 'when I'm retired' ) Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# *

RE: VFP web services

2006-11-08 Thread Andy Davies
>So I may as well stay with dll and asp then. At least I know how to get >those working. >Allen on different computers, on different networks, through a couple of corporate firewalls and a mess of nat'ing routers? 'cos imho that's what soap/ web services *set out* to do. (meanwhile asp or xmlhtt

de question

2006-11-08 Thread Andy Davies
Hi, I have added a de ('deMy') to a form, for now at least I am not using ca's but in the load of the form I can do e.g. local nHndl nHndl = thisform.deMy.DataSource cSQL = [select * from foo] nOK = SQLEXEC(nHndl, cSQL, 'curFoo') Q1. it seems I (the_programmer) have to remember that the de is ca

oop?

2006-11-08 Thread Andy Davies
comments please (I haven't tried this yet - I thought I'd pass it by the higher minds on the list first ) DEFINE CLASS busObj as Custom PROCEDURE init PARAMETERS pnHndl && PARAMETERS oDE SQLEXEC(pnHndl,[select * from foo f join bah b on f.idBah = b.id where 1=2],'curMT') * or && select (oDE.init

test

2006-11-08 Thread Andy Davies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said "You have been unsubscribed from the ProFox mailing list" Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use

test (thursday)

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
testing Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have rece

Re: oop?

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
Michael Babcock said "What's the question? " I was mainly wondering how many people had tried 'scatter name this additive' to build a data object. Like Michael I have tended to ignore the de but I am looking at oop design, and it's there - I considered it for the 'home' of dataObj's but it seems

Re: oop?

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
...btw it's nice to see that I'm now not completely a non-person - this post has finally appeared, and Michael Babcock (at least) has received it, but I still can't find the original in the archives although Michael's response is there. Didn't this happen to someone else a few years ago Andrew Dav

Re: Excel Forms (dropdowns)

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
Tristan, the clue seems to be that there isn't a dropdowns collection - so I guessed it must be a form control or activex control: the Excel vba Help has: With Worksheets(1) Set lb = .Shapes.AddFormControl(xlListBox, 100, 10, 100, 100) lb.ControlFormat.ListFillRange = "A1:A10" End With 'U

[ADMIN] 2nd thursday test

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
posts still not getting through quickly/ ever? ? have I suddenly started sending html? ## message copied to profoxtech ## Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are con

Re: oop?

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
Ed said "You are posting from an address that is not subscribed to the list. That means the posts get held until I can review them. I have added that address to the 'whitelist' of allowed non-subscribers, so this shouldn't happen anymore." Ed (and Paul), to quote from an email I sent to Paul Newto

Re: oop?

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
>You mentioned that some cursor fields didn't get a property on the oData >object. These weren't memo fields, were they? I often miss adding MEMO >to the SCATTER NAME THIS.oDATA MEMO command. > >Kevin Cully Kevin, thanks for the reply - and yes you're right - several were memo fields and one cla

Re: oop?

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
> I seem to have become a non-person - I know what it is - it's the revenge of the Nulls! Serves me right - I've always known there was no such thing as a tri-state boolean but yesterday I coded: "create table foo (id int not null, name varchar(64) null, lIsNoGood bit null)" and now Ed's list do

[NF] Windows Explorer (Win2K)

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Davies
Hi, I rarely use \Documents and Settings\...\ - is there any way to stop Explorer always expanding it? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intende

Re: [NF] UK laptop suppliers

2006-11-10 Thread Andy Davies
my [occasional] corporate laptop is one of the older nc6120 models and I've been very impressed by it. --- just a wag - are they offering a free extra gig 'cos they know that otherwise you'd be complaining about poor performance after the free Vista upgrade? bad andy! Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP  

Re: [NF] UK laptop suppliers

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Davies
Paul Newton said "So you think I should be happy with the NX9420 then ?" Like Whil I always swore by Thinkpads but I don't know if build quality is still as good with Lenovo. Like I said the HP nc6120 is fine. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# *

Re: [NF] UK laptop suppliers

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Davies
> off to Kenya ... for a week long way to go for a week! Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or ent

Re: Start default mail client with blank message and file attachment

2006-11-13 Thread Andy Davies
> Thanks a lot - that seems to work fine (tested with my own system which has TB as default mail client) like I always say: doesn't work with Notes - the mailto: solution should be more generic.. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)#

RE: Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition withMSDNProfessionalSubscription

2006-11-14 Thread Andy Davies
> the updates do stop coming monthly at the end of > the Subscription period. they seem to have pretty much stopped comong this year anyway! I also opted for CD's the first year then swapped to DVD but it seems you while you can select by language for CD's you get the lot on DVD. As a result last

Re: Start default mail client with blank message and file attachment

2006-11-14 Thread Andy Davies
if anyone's interested Andrew Stirling's code even works for Notes, but doesn't do attachments: DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN shell32.dll ; INTEGER hndWin, ; STRING cAction, ; STRING cFileName, ; STRING cParams, ; STRING cDir, ; INTEGER nShowWin cAction='Open' cFileName = 'mailto:'+'profox@leafe

Re: [NF] Motion-activated web camera ?

2006-11-14 Thread Andy Davies
>> I would be more tempted to put a motion detection hose pipe in. That would >> train the bugger. >> >I already thought of that but there's nothing like it on e-bay there *is* such a device on the market ( a jet of water rather than a hosepipe full ) Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8

Re: Start default mail client with blank message and file attachment

2006-11-14 Thread Andy Davies
>Where did you come up with the attachment markup below: >'&Att='+'C:\temp\tmp.txt' >'&Attachments='+'C:\temp\tmp.txt' >'&Attach='+'C:\temp\tmp.txt' Google - (apparently it works for some mail clients) Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# **

delay init

2006-11-15 Thread Andy Davies
hi, I have a container** on page2 [of a pageframe on a form] which expects a cursor to be open when init() is run, but the cursor isn't created until the user has filled in some parms on page1. Is there any way I can disable the container.init? I have tried setting enabled = F for the container a

RE: What other users are in what form? And deciphering Read Events.

2006-11-15 Thread Andy Davies
> I'm using pessimistic buffering that probably explains the collisions (are you checking for locked records?). also iirc there are known (unresolved??) issues with multi-user indices Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ***

RE: delay init

2006-11-15 Thread Andy Davies
Dave, Peter, thanks for the suggestions; yes I think init2() is probably the way to go - the cursor actually is open (it's a ca) but empty, and it's recount()=0 that is upsetting the container.init p'raps I'll put in an 'if this.parent.enabled = .T.' trap around this.init2() so as not to break Les

RE: VSS Automate "Join Source Control Project"

2006-11-16 Thread Andy Davies
Years ago I got tired of the cruft that builds up in a project directory during development/ maintenance so I wrote a program to move the necessary files to a new directory and/ or list the differences in file lists between two projects. The code is almost certainly too awful to be shown the light

RE: [NF] -- Headaches May Remain In Microsoft Vista Land

2006-11-16 Thread Andy Davies
>I've got it working again, but its sure flaky... >Not sure if that’s the norm or not. >Virgil Bierschwale that's been the norm for me - I can *sometimes* connect a phone or a headset to a pc, or a headset to a phone; but with two bluetooth enabled pc's you *should* be able to set up a 'network'.

RE: [NF] How do you tell when a 'softie marketing droid is lying...

2006-11-16 Thread Andy Davies
> ...Two days later I get in the car; battery is dead again... About once a year my Audi A6 spontaneaously winds down its windows and puts on the interior lights, the doors stay locked. Google shows a few people describing the exact same symptoms, but no explanations. There is said to be an overhe

Re: Exe not releasing

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Davies
I have put a timer routine in my apps that checks for the presence of a 'shutdown [Now]' file - sometimes that gives me access to the exe and sometimes it doesn't - something to do with ms network file system; usually it clears after a longish wait, occasionally it needs the 'offending' workstation

a real crock of oop - was: RE: controls/ objects collections

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Davies
I have stripped this pretty much to essentials - here is the code for the classes (the same thing happens if I use .vcx's) If I open membersMultiClass in the class designer the Properties show a correct controlcount. You can find the original code and Les Pinter's article at: http://www.utmag.com

RE: controls/ objects collections

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Davies
Lew Schwartz said "This doesn't entirely make sense to me...There's really no way for a single object to have more than 1 'context'... " Lew I think that's right - I thought the button.init code was executing in the context of the superclass but I think I was misled by the controlcount property: w

RE: a real crock of oop - was: RE: controls/ objects collections

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Davies
Tracy said "Change it from RowSource = "''", ; To RowSource = "", ; " and that's it ffolks! Give the man a cigar () and another () () and a couple of drinks (_)? (_)? I've wasted two days on this:- it wasn't subclassing or how I created the sys(1270) o

RE: Changing Colours

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Davies
>This does not work OHHH! yes it does: _screen.BackColor=RGB(144,176,144) _screen.BackColor = _screen.BackColor + RGB(20,20,20) _screen.BackColor=RGB(255,255,255) Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email an

RE: a real crock of oop - was: RE: controls/ objects collections

2006-11-22 Thread Andy Davies
... and many thanks to Lew as well - what you said seems absolutely right so I will try moving the init code to the container object and see what happens. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any fil

Re: [NF]: Microsoft's Security Problems Multiply

2006-11-23 Thread Andy Davies
Whil said "Heddy Lamar ain't the only rocket scientist in Hollyweird." ... but she was the best looking; certainly Corel thought so: http://www.asigns.com/CorelDRAW%208.htm Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** Th

dob to age

2006-11-23 Thread Andy Davies
does anyone have an algorithm to hand for calculating age in years as of today's date from a date of birth (fox code) thanks Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it a

Re: dob to age

2006-11-23 Thread Andy Davies
Brian Abbot said: INT((VAL(DTOS(dToday))-VAL(DTOS(dBirth)))/1) thanks - can't decide if that's elegant or a hack - but its neat! Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with i

Re: MAPI hell

2006-11-24 Thread Andy Davies
Intellisense shows UserName and Password properties for mapisession - perhaps you should set these before calling SignOn? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confid

foxprow patch

2006-11-24 Thread Andy Davies
someone was asking about this recently - I just came across this link which has it plus other goodies: http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files trans

Re: laser printer sharing

2006-11-24 Thread Andy Davies
sorry can't help - but you might search the list archives - there has been quite a lot of stuff about problems with default printers. - and you learn something new every day, I'd never *heard* of: printjob ... endprintjob Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# *

RE: dob to age

2006-11-24 Thread Andy Davies
Tom Slayton said "INT((tdDate-tdBirthDate)/365.25)" thanks Tom, I was thinking along those lines myself but wasn't sure that it wouldn't occasionally be a day out - I'm going to go with Brian Abbots suggestion. ( Brian Abbot said: INT((VAL(DTOS(dToday))-VAL(DTOS(dBirth)))/1) ) Andrew Davies 

RE: MAPI hell

2006-11-24 Thread Andy Davies
>mine dies at the initial SignOn command a) can you open outlook on that machine? b) if so does signon work in the command window? if a) and not b) I guess its the Outlook automation security thingy? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ***

Re: laser printer sharing

2006-11-24 Thread Andy Davies
Vince said "I wonder if what is happening is that the output is being spooled..." well, that is exactly what the mysterious printjob...endprintjob is *supposed* to do according to Help! so maybe you need to check for printjob end - looks as if you'd need winapi for that Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP

Re: [NF] Printers a-go-go

2006-11-27 Thread Andy Davies
Whil said " My current printer is an HP 1200 (3-4 years old), and I like it fine." my current printer is an HP IID, and I like it fine - that real retro speckled look . - but seriously, it still works, and it cost a *packet* in 1986 Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ***

Re: [NF] Printers a-go-go

2006-11-27 Thread Andy Davies
Kevin Cully said "I second John's suggestion for a print server." I looked at them a while back but I work mainly over a vpn and my local network is not available (fwiw a locally attached printer on my pc *can* be seen on my lan while I am running a virtual PC which has the printer attached and sha

Re: [NF] Ajax after the hype

2006-11-27 Thread Andy Davies
< http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1230362,00.html?track=NL-149&ad=572179&asrc=EM_NLN_764545&uid=35343 > Alphabet soup of the day! I can't believe how much guff surrounds what is really no more than xmlhttp plus dom - ms achieved this years ago with the do

RE: dob to age

2006-11-27 Thread Andy Davies
Hal Kaplan said "Brian's code is wrong ..." Oh b#ggre - that means I'm going to have to *think*! Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended s

RE: dob to age

2006-11-27 Thread Andy Davies
    8-)# Andy Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ter.gov.uk>

Re: File Differencing

2006-11-29 Thread Andy Davies
XML UpdateGram ?? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you

[NF] more network questions

2006-11-29 Thread Andy Davies
Whil's gadget-hunger driven shopping spree seems to be catching I have just bought a Linksys WRTGS Wireless Router from pcWorld (£39.99 with a 'free' usb wireless adapter - that seems remarkably cheap!) [Actual *questions* lower down ] Now there's nothing like buying new kit to reveal the depth

Re: [NF] more network questions

2006-11-30 Thread Andy Davies
Ted Roche said: >Must be me Irish side; I'm compelled to answer your questions with questions... >Do you really need both routers? If you want wireless, why not just >replace the Zyxel with the LinkSys? The Linksys doesn't have a broadband modem. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)#

Re: [NF] Voip/Pstn exchange plan

2006-11-30 Thread Andy Davies
plenty of firms advertise custom Asterisk setups - Google for it. Last time I checked there were much cheaper options than (real) Digium cards. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmit

Re: SELECT-Sql IN clause help

2006-11-30 Thread Andy Davies
try: select t1.* from table1 t1 right outer join table2 t2 on t1.ref = t2.ref where t2.ref is null or swap your tables and left/ right Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with

Re: [NF] more network questions

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Davies
Peter Cushing said: > Or the one I bought recently for £39.99 but now £37.08 (ex vat) > http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/LINKSY33 > This is an ADSL modem/router/wireless access point. Been great so far. Interesting - I didn't see that one - at first sight I thought it looked like the BT Home Hu

RE: [NF] Voip/Pstn exchange plan

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Davies
http://www.voip-calculator.com/calculator/lipb/ over to you Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# "Tristan Leask"

RE: [NF] Voip/Pstn exchange plan

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Davies
Dave Crozier said "I normally would recommend 3 VOIP channels per Mb of upload bandwidth" that bears out my experience - I've got 0.2Mb upload and one voip channel - and it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ***

Re: ContourCube ActiveX control

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Davies
Paul, I wonder if this is to do with the ocx licensing thing - iirc you have to subclass the control at some stage? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

Feature is not available

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Davies
the system I've been working on for weeks just threw a wobbly: for the first time instead of running from the command window I just double-clicked the .exe and I got the message: 'Feature is not available' Help! and msdn inform me that it's (Error 1001) - "The Visual FoxPro feature you have att

Re: ContourCube ActiveX control

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Davies
> Can you be more specific ? no sorry - try msdn/ Google Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or ent

ms

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Davies
Oh feck! - I just got my *first* user complaint about "The Publisher could not be verified, do you wish to continue?" The exe is of course on a network drive - and always will be even if I implement a downloader! (Anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about can just Google for the above phrase

Re: Feature is not available - SOLVED

2006-12-01 Thread Andy Davies
Well I finally found it after a 'wait window [ur here...]' crawl thru the code. The culprit was an addproperty() method call in a cursoradapter - this.AddProperty('nId', NULL, 1, 'this is the FK') This causes *two* errors: according to Help! you can't (strangely) have a description clause *at r

.removeobject

2006-12-04 Thread Andy Davies
Who's used this? - can I safely assume that it will remove all contained objects, object refs etc. or do I risk dangling things and memory loss (at my age I have to worry about these things )? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ***

RE: [NF] Installing XP... fails to go past inspecting hardware

2006-12-04 Thread Andy Davies
>Put a dos boot disk in the floppy and format the hard drive. ... or I think that Partition Manager can do a dos format ... or there are plenty of stand-alone dos iso's available via Google ... but ... you may still have problems from the IBM bios if you don't have the recovery disk. I've insta

RE: [NF] Installing XP... fails to go past inspectinghardware

2006-12-04 Thread Andy Davies
> Can't *nix format a drive FAT? > Tracy yes, but ms os's can be *really* picky about formatting. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended so

Re: [NF] Installing XP... fails to go past inspecting hardware

2006-12-04 Thread Andy Davies
profox On 12/4/06, Andy Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh and a final word of warning - I still have a TP functioning a

RE: [NF] 6GB pocket drive for $49.98 USD from Staples

2006-12-04 Thread Andy Davies
>I remember buying single sided disks and cutting the notch out... j##z yes - someone even sold a notch cutter outer for about $15 - and it was worth it! I'd forgotten about that - come to think of it - why would I *want* to remember it??? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)#

Re: [NF] Installing XP... fails to go past inspecting hardware

2006-12-04 Thread Andy Davies
>Modern distros are pretty good about USB, I think... >-- >Ted Roche Ted, that's good to know 'cos I just bought a 40Gb upgrade drive for my wife's TP ($40) - add a $9 tin box and I've got a usb drive to play with. The missus may have to wait till after Xmas for her pc upgrade . Andrew Davies 

Re: [NF] Installing XP... fails to go past inspecting hardware

2006-12-04 Thread Andy Davies
you may all have noticed that I've started thinking in $ lately - it's got real easy @ £1 = $2 - but no cause for anyone to get upset - for a lot of my life £1 was $2.40 (a penny was a penny!) - amd my ma remembers £1 = $4 (a dollar was a 'dollar'). Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD   

Re: [NF] Installing XP... fails to go past inspecting hardware

2006-12-04 Thread Andy Davies
Paul Hill said "Can't you use the reiserfsck command?" not on a mounted volume! Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use o

corrupted .scx's - again - vfp9

2006-12-05 Thread Andy Davies
this bug is definately alive and well, and something to do with debugging - particularly with creating objects in the command window relating to a form being debugged. This is the second time this week I've had the problem - this time it manifested itself when running the exe as the form having a

Re: cursor adapters on free tables

2006-12-06 Thread Andy Davies
> Is it possible to create updatable cursor adapters for ... tables ... with no primary keys? iirc - No! (not sure you can do it with remote views either - what would be the update command?) otoh you don't *have* to create ca's to upgrade to vfp9 . Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)#

Re: vfp9 report - how to edit a label?

2006-12-06 Thread Andy Davies
>Interesting, you must click on the report toolbar label and then click on the label in order to change the text. er no - you can double-click the label Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any file

ca's with scatter name objects

2006-12-07 Thread Andy Davies
just a word of warning - don't do what I did: it just took me about 6 hours to sort this one :- I set up a ca to initially open with no data, so I did 'scatter name this additive' from it in the init of my oData object .. after the user edits some controls bound to oData... I do 'gather name this

RE: ca's with scatter name objects

2006-12-08 Thread Andy Davies
Lew, Michael first a bit of background: I first put this up for discussion in: http://leafe.com/archives/showMsg/331417 follow up on http://leafe.com/archives/showMsg/331423 and Kevin Cully pointed out the importance of the 'memo' keyword here: http://leafe.com/archives/showMsg/331428 In my app

RE: ca's with scatter name objects

2006-12-08 Thread Andy Davies
P.P.S my Les Pinter multiline 'grid' example doesn't show it, but if there are more records than will fit in the 'grid' there is a rather ugly ActiveX slider control for navigation - does anyone know of a vfp [slider] control that I could substitute? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)#

Re: Table Naming Conventions

2006-12-08 Thread Andy Davies
> So where do you fall in creating your names? I am agnostic about including v/ vu/ view in view names (actually I sometimes use c_tablename, especially when I only had to create the view because no-one here knows how to make Business Objects respect aliases/ dbLinks), I [try to remember to] use p

[NF] best Free cd ripping software?

2006-12-08 Thread Andy Davies
Hi, I'm sure this was asked recently but I can't find it in the archive: I want to take a selection of music on holiday with me (from cd's I own, Honest!) What is the best free Win s/w for ripping [/playing] to mp3/4; ogg; flac or whatever? (I've got Nero but it wants a paid for plugin) thank

RE: ca's with scatter name objects

2006-12-08 Thread Andy Davies
Lew Schwartz said: >...you 'scatter ... name this additive' which is bound to create problems imo. why? - it is even suggested as a technique in Help! >...Surely if you attempt to write to the properties named 'class', 'baseclass', 'name' etc... some issues will arise. In my experience vfp is ve

RE: cursor adapters on free tables

2006-12-08 Thread Andy Davies
David Stevenson said... You DO NOT have to have a field specified as a primary key in a database for this to work. ...WhereType = 3 && DB_KEYANDMODIFIED so am I missing something - how does the update work? Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ***

RE: camera test

2006-12-11 Thread Andy Davies
Dave Crozier said (private email): >Andy, >I've just run a couple of diagnostics and the 1024 port is definitely not >visible my side of the fence so you need to allow TCP/UDP output. Can you >try disabling the firewall for a time just to see if I can see it then? Dave, the camera is supposed to u

RE: [NF] What is the cost for MySQL anyway?

2006-12-12 Thread Andy Davies
Apparently it's $675 *per year* for 'enterprise basic' processor licence (whatever that is) - I don't like the fact that the pricing structure isn't more open (not that ms SQL Server is much clearer). iirc mySQL used to have a one-off licence at around $400 - I wonder if their revenue stream has ac

RE: [NF] best Free cd ripping software?

2006-12-13 Thread Andy Davies
Thanks to everyone who replied - I downloaded FreeRip and CDex to try (also Audacity but haven't had time to look at that yet): FreeRip was the easiest to use and rock solid; CDex (beta) was less solid (e.g. proxy passthru) but: since I was new to this I did sample rips to mp3, ogg, and flac. Ther

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