tions to take the
real computing power back behind closed doors, as far as I can tell
largely for the benefit of their own income streams. Of course we
trust them to be nice, don't we boys and girls...
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There's PHP code to do it...
Being PHP it's fairly easy to read, and modify?
It's an extention to fPDF called fPDi I think.
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So quick when you know how :-)
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ad the windows files when I need
to.
If you try it, don't unplug "the other" disk ("to be safe") when
doing the installations. It all goes horribly wrong :-(
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The website (nmap.org) says there's a GUI version too 8-)
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o something
about it _vfp.forms doesn't containt a reference to it!
Other projects appear properly, just not the one I'm working on.
If I switch off the resource file, it's still the same.
Any ideas how I can get this back?
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Hi John,
> My solution would be to delete the project and re-create it by creating a
> new project with the same name, adding main.prg then build an app.
Hmm, well, in truth there's a few more complications that mean I was hoping
not to do that, but on reflection, they may not have a bearing on
> Is it off the screen?
> Or hidden?
Nope, that's the bit where, when I switch to the command window, there's no
form any more :-(
If I modify that project, then switch immediately to the command window and
"DISPLAY MEMORY", there are no windows defined. The project *is* in the
project collect
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Schummer wrote:
> You can try to PACK the pjx file when you have it opened exclusively.
> Also look for any corruption in the file.
No obvious corruption, although this thing about looking in the "DEVINFO"
field hanging the (XP-PRO) machine seems a bit odd, is
rmersmarkets" takes focus away from me. If
click in the command window I get focus back. No error message.
If I try to open the project file as a table at this point I *do* get an error
message, which is fine because there's no table there!
?
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Kaye wrote:
> Did you try using as a table and copying to a new table with a PJX
> extension?
Yes I did. Copied to the new pjx file it's a bit bigger (13k, about 5%).
And as long as it's not called "farmersmarkets" (the old name) it works
just fine. As s
Hmmm, evidently not, because that fixes it. Thank you Tracy!
The Fox remembers things without the resource file?
That's useful to know.
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Anyway, Tracy nailed it and it's now fixed.
Many thanx to all.
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off, if it had already been used in the current session.
That's why Tracy's fix worked.
So many things happening and going wrong here all at the same time, I
got flustered :-(
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When they say "no one had gained control of the Vista" machine, that
presumably includes the person trying to use it legally?
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> Well that's one monopolistic, draconian, lock-in-focused, often unethical
> company taken care of.
Only locally.
Here in England it's just been announced that the whole of the south west
region
has outsourced it's emergency calls (& a whole lot of other stuff local
government related stuff I
I'm being asked to do this query in one step, and I'm not sure it's
possible.
I have a table of data entry and an audit table that records changes
to the data.
They want all data of a certain type (status "open") and the date and
username from the *latest* audit entry for each row.
The only w
> Is there a reason why it needs to be done in one step?
Because it's in an overnight batch driven from an SQL statement stored in a
table.
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Yup
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, but, supplied by the lead developer
from the client, I'll go with it for the moment. Hmm.
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Whilst the ExecScript thang is a great idea, my client's batch simply
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ggest to them they change such a core part of the system.
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as been said here is "just don't do it. They really don't
want to know."
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Is there really no VFP function that is the reverse of DTOS?
DTOS turns into "MMDD". I can break it apart manually and
put it back together as a date, but it's a bit laborious. Nothing
already inside?
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Thanks Jeff,
Now you mention it I seem to remember the client has this in their
arsenal too. Probably far poorer than that though.
TVM
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'cos this one rocks!
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intended
"after the fact" 8-D).
And as Paul (H) says, Agent finds text in any type of file.
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I suspect that VNC is single user on Windows because of Windows, and it
works properly multi-user on Linux for the same reason.
Windows Terminal Server is Bill's equivalent of a proper multi-user box.
I'm working remotely for one client exclusively through terminal server.
Yes there are some numbe
VFP apps remotely. TS works well with that
> (as does VNC of course).
As was pointed out though, VNC to Winders boxes isn't great for more than
one person though.
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ull text. I haven't find a way to do this. Is there a way?
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y as you move up and down the grid
> though.
Ah, that would be good, I'd forgotten about that too. Hmm, that might
make the error message tooltip show wherever they hover on the row, which
currently I also can't do. :-(
> As for grid highlighting try turning themes off.
Ah, fabul
work. Sounds like it's not
quite what you're doing in this instance though... What are you doing? 8-)
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asked to save.
Codebook doesn't do the "read or edit mode" thing, forms are always editable.
I'm sure you could hack it around so that doesn't happen, it's a fundamental
part of the framework though.
Good luck...
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> As for grid highlighting try turning themes off.
Does that need to be in conjunction with something else?
I've set Themes to .F. both at the grid level and, because that didn't
work, at the display object level. That didn't work either :-(
I've still got the other settings the way they were be
y
saying that that is perfectly legitimate...
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Just in case anyone labours under the misapprehension that Microsoft
invented this (after reading the intro to this excellent sounding
utility), a database called Empress (I think) had some of this (the
ability to query arrays as if they were tables) more'n twenty years
ago...
Merry Christmas!
here to go with their unilateral changes).
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tabase of what they downloaded
and when.
With not too much fiddling you can probably send data between your
desktop database (& apps) and the web based one...
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> I wish *I* had more money than brains.
Frontal lobotomy sir?
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> I've heard this sentiment echoed a number of times now (including
> here).
Certainly what I'm hearing about Vista (mostly here) is moving me
very much nearer to switching to Linux.
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> But we are a small segment (tech-savvy folks)the zillions out there
> just take (and stay) with whatever is loaded onto their PC when they buy
> themand M$ knows that. Until Linux comes pre-loaded on the big
> players PCs by default, M$ will always rule the day, imo.
Agreed. I'm not
> Yep. It's hard to go against MS.
Very good for the soul though... [;-)
> But I'd strongly advise that at the very
> least you get things switched over to Open Office.
Yup, there is that now you mention it. 'Twould be a very good idea.
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> Boy I don't understand this at all.
> You say that we should punish a company for making a living from the goods
> that their employees make ?
No, what's being said (in my understanding of it anyway) is that a company
who thinks their revenue stream is more important than their customers
needs,
Ummm alt.comp.databases.mysql (I think) recently started up, but I
changed isp so in fact I've not been seeing it to be able to tell
whether it's any good or not.
*Obviously* couldn't be as good as stuff that Ed's set up...
;-)
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> petty # pretty...unfortunately...
It does too often for my liking...
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> computer professionals. Or imagine the converse: that doctors made
> their recommendations not on the best interests of the patient, but
> on what would generate the most revenue for the doctor himself
??
You don't think this is happening already?
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Hopefully you'll be suggesting they upgrade to OpenOffice???
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Weller wrote:
> They already have for word processing, etc but OO automation is another
> thing entirely!
What other thing is it?
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This might be a daft answer, but you don't happen to have the project
file open for the application that uses that database would you?
'Cos *that* will hold the dbc open...
Daft I know, but I fell for it a couple of times.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ted Roche wrote:
> Burned me, too. If you go to the data tab and highlight the database,
> one of the buttons in the Project Manager changes to "Close" that lets
> you close the project.
Ahah! I hadn't noticed that. Thanx!
M
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Mark: This procedure runs in an exe and there is no project open. I don't
> include dbcs & tables in my projects.
I thought that was probably the case, but you didn't explicitly say so.
Sometimes the silliest things are helpful... :-s
Regard
Last time I looked there was a whole load of stuff at the end of the
MySQL (4.01 I think) manual about GIS functions.
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> >
> > There's a zillion other nifty add-ons. I'm a big fan of NoScript and
> > AdBlocker. What other add-ons/plug-ins are people using?
>
> StubleUpon, Pluck, TinyURLCreator and forecastfox
Session Saver
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And a very dangerous shift it is too.
Having got things going so the average man at the desk has some say
in his computing, the big companies have worked out it's not good for
their income and are trying to kill it.
Very bad for individual freedom imo.
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bout the project
succeeding and suddenly want to stop doing the cr*p that I've been told
to add/change/remove and start telling them how it should be done right, and
suddenly they don't like me so much any more...
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> deliver.
Yes indeed. And it would seem that the current climate is to try to put
that particularly back in the box, d'you think?
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> I guess the rest of the world would be watching the consequences of the
> newly passed laws. :)
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MB Software
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> Sounds easiest to devise a
> VFP Label Report and do that but thought I'd poll the list.
That's certainly what I've done. Very easy, not hard at all.
Mark Stanton
> instead I did one using ADA... a really
> practical skill set that turned out to be (not).
Isn't that still going? I thought I say it mentioned in an ad for a
contract (admittedly defense) just recently.
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> Michael: I have a laser printer that fills up a plastic bin with waste
> toner. The printer stops and will not print when the bucket is full. The
> instructions say to dispose of the bucket in the same manner your client
> mentioned.
As opposed to the Cannon S520 (I think), which just stops a
one screen rather than opening
separate screens/forms to update bits of linked data?
Or is just that my medication is wearing off?
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local, buffered, data, and save data to a "real" file.
Sounds like picking it apart into separate screens *is* the way to
go, because that gives at least some indication of why some data has
been committed and other data hasn't.
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> If you follow Ted's and my suggestion of generating a
> local, flat read-write cursor & do batch updates of the underlying tables
Seems a shame, doesn't it, that all that clever table buffering is actually
completely useless...
Ok, not completely, but it would appear not to do the job it's meant
> Don't forget that you can use WITH BUFFERING in your SQL now to reflect the
> buffered changes!
VFP9?
I haven't converted any of my applications to it yet. 8-(
> ... a definite gotcha in this case.
Pardon?
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There are three or four around at the moment (or there were last week
anyway).
One in Truro, one in Edinburgh, one in Birmingham, and a coupla
others I don't remember.
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27;s myself, because that lets me control users by
giving
them a unique (in my case) three char prefix defining the machine to which I
just
add the character representation of a normal numeric key.
Unfortunately it's not finished yet ... 8-(
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is or can I specify this
> in the FPW (or some other method)
Hey, that's what OO is for (well, kinda sorta).
Or should I guess from that that the forms aren't classes?
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ut the finance person only
needs to see this year. What does the "payments" view do? Have a
filter for this year?
Hmmm, talking this "out loud" it's starting to sound like a daft question.
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lly.
As I said in the reply to Ed (although in slightly different context), this
sounds like it takes me away from my pre-made forms, does it?
I don't s'pose that's necessarily a problem.
However, my user base is *extremely*, e, "naive", so it has to be really
simple t
quot;datalens" (TM 8-) ) to restrict,
or not, the main view.
I haven't thought through how feasible that would be though... What's the
"dynamism" of those views?
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Hi Mike,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike yearwood wrote:
> Unlike most every other system I've seen, I give the user the
> ability to construct a where clause.
Yup, that sounds more like the direction I'm thinking to go in.
But the issue (I think) is that my preset views are a structural nec
user will want to set up some filters (this year, those traders, these
markets), and then a large number of views will need to have those types of
parameterised clauses.
I'm hoping not to have to do this to so many views, but I can't currently
HIPAA? Doesn't matter I s'pose, just curious.
How many views does that mean you have to adjust?
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y-chaining" (damn,
spot the ex-hardware engineer) trigger routines? I s'pose I can
imagine a way of coding it, but it feels like it would be messy.
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y sure how y'mean though.
Do you mean you used the view tied to the BizObj as the basis for a new one
(produced by fiddling with the WHERE clause), and then switched the BizObj
to look at this new one?
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> ViewEditor is a great tool offered by Rick Schummer:
> http://www.whitelightcomputing.com/prodvieweditorpro.htm
Ah, thanks.
> You don't have to use (nor would I recommend) public variables...you can
> use PRIVATE scoped variables.
I mean, because of the scope of the filter it would have to
ike a refinement of Ed's strategy above,
whereby I wouldn't need to fiddle with the SQL. The view's are "dynamic"
without having to fiddle with them.
Cool, thanx.
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Seems to me that the big disadvantage of views is the inability to
update more than one table via the view, or have I got a big chunk of
missing knowledge?
It certainly doesn't *seem* to work with the way business objects
have been implemented in CodeBook...
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s so's I can have
a nicely separated client/server setup, hmmm, are we impressed boys & girls?
VFP's view wizard lets (in fact seems to want) me to identify key fields in
all the tables in the view, and if it knows that, how far off updating more
than one of the t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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> On 8/9/07, Mark Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Seems to me that the big disadvantage of views is the inability to
> > update more than one table via the view, or have I got a big chunk of
> > mis
that suddenly makes a
clean system rather more mucky. Probably not worth the corruption of the
math I s'pose.
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x27;d still like an answer to my previous question. If this
is really not doable and views can only update one table, how much of
an advantage are they really, except to give server tables a "local
presence"?
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s the advantage over views?
Is it more than "I wrote it so it's got all the features I want"? Not
that that's invalid at all, of course.
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> Mark,
> No, your pre made forms are just loaded with a n OLE control "cube" that the
> user can manipulate/filter at will using simple cursor drag/drop.
I can see I'm'a gonna have to revisit these, tha
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Yup, Fairy Nuff
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> parts.
Yup. Sounds like a point in favour of the cube stuff that David's using too.
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> What are you capturing?
>
> Table, OrigValue, NewValue, User, DateTime, Application
Yup, 'cept after an initial try with it I haven't captured "application".
My "changes" table is specific
> temp DBC, and that is what the form controls see.
Does that need some quite fancy footwork shifting the BizObj's datasource
around?
(Is this is getting too "CodeBook"y?)
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> RETURN Trigger1() AND Trigger2() AND Trigger3()...
Presumably this'll need to be set up after all the RI have been put in
place for the database?
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ind Andy Kramek's stuff?
You, Michael, & Steve have all talked about implementing something better
via SQL, the VFP views are really SQL, so it looks like it's "just" a
not-very-good implementation issue?
D'you think something clever here will extend the Fox's
in my application(s), but
it's not the same conversation as the "views" one we've got on to here.
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> Codebook was written a long time ago. Some of the thoughts of the ways
> to do things have evolved since then.
Anything, Ted?
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you were referring to, and I'm
interested too. "Too busy" is certainly a valid reply though.
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't know why,
but I have now, sorry I missed it before.
Thanks for your thoughts, they're very much appreciated.
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agine that
it's to "protect coders from themselves", but that's the only excuse
for it that I can come up with, and I don't want to be protected from
myself.
Any thoughts?
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