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    - VFP & mySQL Community or Enterprise? Just getting started with using mySQL w/VFP, and I already have a decision to make. There are two versions now, Community and Enterprise. What's the difference? Which should I choose? -Lew Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229714
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    - Destination Folder for Applications Thanks in advance for the help. Is there any way to tell the project manager what the destination should be for the EXE? I always put each EXE in the same place and I always have to navigate to the folder where the EXE needs to go. Is there any way to get the project manager to remember this folder so that I don't have to navigate each time? Thanks again. Jeff Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229706
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    - Orphan Excel Process Hello and thanks in advance for the help. I have some applications which use office automation to read MS Excel files. Sometimes, if one of these applications has an unexpected termination, I am left with an orphan Excel process. Is there any way to kill these processes programatically? As far as improving the error handling of the code, these are web based apps which use FoxWeb so I don't really have great error handling available. Thanks for the help. Jeff Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229705
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    - Making .vcx Class files. Is a .vcx simply a file like a prg with the extension replaced ? Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229697
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    - Program for reading mail queue I want to write a program to get the number of mails there are in the queue of a POP3 collector mailbox, and trigger an alarm when there are more than 50 mails. Walter Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229696
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    - MS FAX using automation I have successfuly used Automation of Word in the past. It seems that it should be relatively easy to add code to print to the MS XP FAX driver from inside of a WORD document. If I set the default print driver to the XP FAX driver before opening the Word document then a print command should cause it to try to send a fax. The problem I see is how do I tell the FAX driver the phone number and other data to use while controlling the Word Document with automation? Also, how is status handled with the Fax driver? Has anyone tried this approach? Is there a source for documentation on the XP FAX object parameters? --E. Myron Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229689
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    - An Amusing Moment I had an amusing moment today. I had to look up a command that I have not used in quite some time. The command was STORE! When I were a lad (dBASE II 2.02), STORE was a necessity. There was no assignment statement besides STORE. Mind you, that was nearly a quarter century ago. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation: I have preferences. You have biases. He/She has prejudices. Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229688
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    - Find duplicates in FP 6 table? Is there a command to find and delete duplicate records in a FoxPro 6 table? The best solution from my point of view would be to do it via an ADO connection from a Visual Basic 6 app. Thanks in advance. Jim Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229683
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    - Fire event after form is displayed? Hi, I'm running VFP 9.0 sp1 and I want to fire an event after the main form of the application is displayed. I want a messagebox to appear when the application starts that prompts the user to say yes or no. I tried putting it into the Init() event of the form but the messagebox pops up before the form is displayed. I've thought about putting it into the Activate() event but then it fires every time I select the form also, I only want it to fire when the program launches. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Linn Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229673
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    - sys(1270) + mouse clicked Is there a way to know whether the mouse has been clicked? I meant not using any object.click() event. -- iTech Consulting Co., Ltd. Specialized in providing ePOS solutions Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852) 2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229669
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    - Remote View Boolean Fields I am currently using VFP 7.0, I can not seem to get a remote view field to convert to foxpro logical. I get an error saying "Type conversion required by DataType field is invalid". Why won't foxpro convert an SQL boolean type to its logical type. It wants to convert it to a character field length of one, which will not work in our case because we have existing code that relys on this field being a "logical" data type. Thanks in advance, Curtis Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229667
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    - weird compile behaviour and memberclass Hi, Here's a frustrating problem we're experiencing ever since using the grid memberclass to point to a custom column class; I am hoping someone has encountered and fixed this! We're using VFP 9 (no sp). Intermittently, *only* when running our exe from within a VFP development session, forms/classes which contain our grid class using the memberclass feature take a long time to open (eg. a form should take no time to open but instead takes 2 minutes!). I have tracked the slowness to any code which causes VFP to add columns to the grid : this.recordsource = something, this.columncount = x etc. It appears that the slowness only occurs after building the project and only when a change has been made to a class (and maybe also a form) that contains our grid class. The only remedy is to exit VFP and run it again, the problem disappears after the restart. It is as though VFP is having trouble finding the prg/fxp which contains the column class definition, even though the prg is included in the project and is one of the procedure files (set procedure to ...). Any ideas? Thanks. Paul Elliott Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229666
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    - Rlock() & multiple instances of app I'm revisiting my thread of last week with the same results: I have a master table of idnos that my app must process. The app looks for a record that has a processed flag set to false and rlocks() the record, if it fails to get the rlock(), it moves on to another record and repeats this procedure until it finds a rec it can rlock(). The purpose of this activity is to prevent a given idno from be processed multiple times. Unfortunately, when I run multiple instances of the app on a *single* work station, the rlock is ignored and all instances find and process the same idno. I've verified that multilocks in on, and that I'm not moving the record pointer. Is it possible that the rlock() is owned by the workstation rather than the application instances that are running on the workstation (ie once one instance has an rlock(), all instances automatically share it)? My old, DOS-like method of creating a low level 'flag' file with fcreate() and testing for file handle > 0 works fine. -Lew Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229661
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    - BARCODE Printing Dear All I am using zebra TLP 2844 for barcode printing. I am creating .Txt file and changing name of Zabra printer driver to generaic Text anddumping that Txt file to the printer. But Now it is not working with USB,as I change the driver to Generic Text It is not printing. i had gone through the manual It saying use Barcode designer software ? how it can be ? any idea ? ny sample code ? Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229657
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    - Help. Hi all, I have been try to use a textboxs to display all data in a form. The first textbox is a "Rental No." and you can also edit it to search for the Rental no. to edit. I have problems trying to get the correct record. Please advise / help / suggestion(s). Thanks for reading. regards, MaxMan Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229656
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    - Into Table or Into Cursor Is one "really" faster than the other? I got into the habit of always using ...INTO TABLE TableName... instead of ...INTO CURSOR CursorName... for all SQL queries because I had problems with indexing, record numbers, etc. and reliability in the older versions. I've done no real testing, but one seems to work as fast as the other in VFP9, even with large query results. Is this because cpu speed, hard drive speed, or does Foxpro really buffer the result anyway and write it to the hard drive when it gets the chance? Or is it my imagination that one is as fast as the other? Steve Meyerson Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229647
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    - Generic XML reader This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C736F9.07B138C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The code below works for reading up to 3 levels of an XML file with into = a treeview control. Now I would like to develop this code to make it = generic and so it takes *any* number of levels. How can I do this - = would I need to use a recursive function? Any help would be appreciated. Code: *** readxml.prg Parameters oForm iNodekey =3D 1 oXmldoc =3D Createobject('msxml2.domdocument') oXmldoc.Async =3D .F. cXMLDoc=3D Locfile('*.xml', 'xml') oXmldoc.Load(cXMLDoc) oTree =3D oForm.treeview1 oNodes =3D oTree.nodes cParent =3D oXmldoc.DocumentElement.BaseName oTree.nodes.Clear oTree.nodes.Add(,, cParent, 'Rot: ' + cParent) oBase =3D oXmldoc.DocumentElement If !oBase.hasChildNodes Return Endif Store ',|@' To c1, c2, c3 Store .T. To l1, l2, l3 Store '' To cNodekey, ccNodekey, cccNodekey For Each oChild1 In oBase.childnodes getnode(oTree, oNodes, cParent, @iNodekey, @cNodekey, 1, @c1, @l1) If l1 And oChild1.hasChildNodes For Each oChild2 In oChild1.childnodes getnode(oTree, oNodes, cNodekey, @iNodekey, @ccNodekey, 2, @c2, @l2) If l2 And oChild2.hasChildNodes For Each oChild3 In oChild2.childnodes getnode(oTree, oNodes, ccNodekey, @iNodekey, @cccNodekey, 3, @c3, = @l3) Next Endif Next Endif Next Function getnode Parameters oTv, oNd, cPr, iKey, cKey, nLevel, lc, ll iKey =3D iKey + 1 cKey =3D Replicate("c", nLevel) + Alltrim(Str(iKey)) cChild =3D 'oChild' + Transform(nLevel) If &cChild..nodename <> lc oNd.Add(cPr, 4, cKey, &cChild..nodename) oTv.nodes(cKey).Tag =3D &cChild..Text lc =3D &cChild..nodename Else ll =3D .F. Endif return ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C736F9.07B138C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The code below works for reading = up to 3=20 levels of an XML file with into a treeview control. Now I would like to = develop=20 this code to make it generic and so it takes *any* number of levels. How = can I=20 do this - would I need to use a recursive function?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Any help would be = appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Code:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>*** readxml.prg</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>Parameters = oForm<BR>iNodekey  =3D=20 1<BR>oXmldoc =3D Createobject('msxml2.domdocument')<BR>oXmldoc.Async =3D = .F.<BR>cXMLDoc=3D Locfile('*.xml',=20 'xml')<BR>oXmldoc.Load(cXMLDoc)<BR>oTree   =3D = oForm.treeview1<BR>oNodes=20 =3D oTree.nodes<BR>cParent =3D=20 oXmldoc.DocumentElement.BaseName<BR>oTree.nodes.Clear<BR>oTree.nodes.Add(= ,,=20 cParent, 'Rot: ' + cParent)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>oBase =3D = oXmldoc.DocumentElement<BR>If=20 !oBase.hasChildNodes<BR> Return<BR>Endif<BR>Store ',|@' To c1, c2,=20 c3<BR>Store .T. To l1, l2, l3<BR>Store '' To cNodekey, ccNodekey,=20 cccNodekey<BR>For Each oChild1 In = oBase.childnodes<BR> getnode(oTree,=20 oNodes, cParent, @iNodekey, @cNodekey, 1, @c1, @l1)<BR> If l1 And=20 oChild1.hasChildNodes<BR>  For Each oChild2 In=20 oChild1.childnodes<BR>   getnode(oTree, oNodes, cNodekey, = @iNodekey, @ccNodekey, 2, @c2, @l2)<BR>   If l2 And=20 oChild2.hasChildNodes<BR>    For Each oChild3 In=20 oChild2.childnodes<BR>     getnode(oTree, = oNodes,=20 ccNodekey, @iNodekey, @cccNodekey, 3, @c3,=20 @l3)<BR>    Next<BR>   Endif<BR> =  Next<BR> Endif<BR>Next</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV><FONT = face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT><FONT face=3DArial></FONT><BR>Function=20 getnode<BR> Parameters oTv, oNd, cPr, iKey, cKey, nLevel, lc, = ll</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> iKey =3D iKey + 1<BR> cKey =3D Replicate("c", nLevel) +=20 Alltrim(Str(iKey))<BR> cChild =3D 'oChild' + = Transform(nLevel)<BR> If=20 &cChild..nodename <> lc<BR>  oNd.Add(cPr, 4, cKey,=20 &cChild..nodename)<BR>  oTv.nodes(cKey).Tag =3D=20 &cChild..Text<BR>  lc =3D=20 &cChild..nodename<BR> Else<BR>  ll =3D=20 .F.<BR> Endif<BR>return</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C736F9.07B138C0-- Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229631
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    - Alter Table question Does ALTER TABLE work with cursors as well as tables? The following two lines: Select cFamilyname from People into cursor Trythis Readwrite Alter table Trythis add column Anything C(20) fails with 'Invalid operation for this cursor'. However if I try it with a different table, creating a different cursor with different fieldnames it consistently works. I have checked both tables, rebuilt them from scratch etc to try to see if there is anything different between them, apart from names. The foxpro help doesn't mention cursors, but Hackers Guide 7 states that it will work with cursors, allbeit the wording says "ALTER TABLE works not only on tables, but also on cursors built with CREATE CURSOR" so I am wondering whether it can or can't be relied on to work with cursors created via SELECT or whether I am doing something wrong. I have tried in both vfp7 and vfp9 Many thanks Stephen Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229616
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    - Strange problem 4 What could cause a grid.columns[] to suddenly disappear after a few refresh... Note: there is no logic to turn if off explicitly. Not lockscreen... no... I think you got it. -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.2 ^ ^ 22:31:01 up 1 day 1:43 0 users load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229612
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    - which port use VfP9 I wrote a program with vfp9 and made it ExE and put it in server and when I turn on fire wall on server I cant run it from client . but when I turn off fire wall on server it runs. I want know which port use vfp9 and I can open this port in fire wall . Thanks bijan Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229603
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    - VFP 8.0 losing memory variables I have a very large application that seems to be losing a public object variable at run-time. I create define a public variable "pScreen", initialize the variable with a blank string and then issue a command such to create a form linking the variable to the screen. Such as: PUBLIC pScreen pScreen = "" DO FORM SomeScreen NAME pScreen LINKED NOSHOW ...... Somewhere in the code the variable is undefined (ie. TYPE("pScreen")= "U"). I know this because when a code tries to reference the pScreen variable, an exception is thrown. To debug, I set a breakpoint immediately after the "DO FORM" and put TYPE("pScreen") into the watch window. I set a breakpoint on the watch for when TYPE("pScreen") changes. Without any other program code changes, the application runs fine and the variable never becomes undefined (until I want it to be undefined)!!! I follow the exact same keystrokes/mouse clicks when running in debug mode with the watch as without. Any ideas of why the variable becomes undefined somewhere in the code but not when a watch/breakpoint is set? Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229591
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    - VFP 9.1 Unions in subqueries The following query works: select ph.Source, ph.SrcRec, rpl.Agency ; from ( ; select * ; from HasOtherRecLevelErrs ; union ; select * ; from HasFieldLevelErrs ; ) as rpl ; inner join PEDHold as ph ; on rpl.Agency=ph.Agency ; into cursor OthersToHoldDetail but when we try select ....... where in (select ...... with union here) does not work. What is the official policy on what is allowed. The documentation is sparce on this subject. Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229584
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    - Escape, read events & loops This is an old story: I have a form that initiates a lengthy batch processing loop. The command buttons on the form are unclickable while the loop is running so I set escape on, test for inkey() and exit if the user presses escape.... This get me back to my read events statement and the buttons become alive again. This method is as old as the hills and somewhat inelegant. Are there any other or newer suggestions? -Lew Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229582
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    - use of "do while" in Visual foxpro 6 I have a problem using the do while command. In fact, I have a table (magazines.dbf) that consists of 900.000 records, each representing sales figures of a magazine. There are 800 different magazines in the table. Each record has a unique (numeric key - magnumber) that serves as a proxy for the name of a magazine (numbers start from 100 through 900). What I want to do, is to add records from a given magazine to another table (report.dbf), and run a program (retail.prg) and repeat this until the final number of 900 is reached. I tried this : cnt=100 do while cnt <= 900 use report delete all pack append from magazines for manumber=cnt do retail.prg cnt=cnt+1 enddo The report is provided for the records with magnumber=100 but at the line "cnt=cnt+1" I receive the message "variable CNT is not found". Can you tell me what to do ? -- blomme ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via http://www.codecomments.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229572
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    - timing of updating data from a control When changing data via a control bound to a data source, there is some delay until the change actually registers. This is a particular problem with a check box in a grid, where I am trying to count the number of .T. values in that field. I usually have interactivechange trigger a timer which waits a couple tens of a second, then performs the count routine. However, this is not reliable. For instance, if I change the value of myfield clicking a checkbox bound to mytable.myfield, then issue SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mytable WHERE myfield the count is invariably off by one until after some period of time has passed, which may be as long as a second or so. All data is local, no network is involved. The table has about 5000 records. Anyone have a good solution? Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229569
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    - SourceSafe 2005 I have not ready any discussions re: VSS 2005 with VFP. Are there any benefits to upgrade form version 6? Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229566
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    - Problem with colors in exe file I have compiled an application into an exe file, and it contains at the beginning SET COLOR OF SCHEME 1 to gr+/w. When I run it compiled as exe, I do not see any color change, but when I run in test with DO menu.mpr then I see yellow letters on grey background. What am I missing in my exe file to also see the color change? Walter Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229563
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    - Run AS/400 app from VFP Is there a way I can fire off an AS/400 app from a VFP exe?? AHIA, Larry.... Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229559
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    - VFP 9 + VPM (Visual Pro Matrix) Does anybody use this combination? I wrote a few programs using VPM with FoxPro 7, but since I decided to buy VFP 9 I'm not so willing to buy VPM for 9. What do you think, is it worth it? Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229554
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    - collapse the expanded strutcure Suppose a sample table (abc.dbf) contained the following data record: a b c d e title 1 USA 10 USA 100 USA 1000 USA 10000 USA 11 Japan 110 Japan 1100 Japan 11000 Japan 12 Peter 121 Mary On 1210 Mary On 12100 Mary On 122 Sharon Li 1220 Sharon Li 12200 Sharon Li How can I make into the following result: a b c d e title 1 10 100 1000 10000 USA 11 110 1100 11000 Japan 12 Peter 121 1210 12100 Mary On 122 1220 12200 Sharon Li The fields (a,b,c,d,e,title) are characters!! I am using Visual FoxPro 6.0 Thanks and regards, Patrick Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229538
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    - list item - go top I use list box to show the item .I add over 100 items in that list box (after adding, How can I move the cursor to the 1st item of that list box) Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229536
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    - Strange problem 3 In a grid (subclassed), grid.recordsource="table1" grid.columns[1].contorl="field1" The grid becomes read-only. After I changed it to: grid.recordsource="table1" grid.columns[1].contorl="table1.field1" the grid can allow changes. What could cause this? -- iTech Consulting Co., Ltd. Specialized in providing ePOS solutions Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852) 2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229535
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    - rlock() & multiple instances of app I have to run multiple instances of an app on the same desktop. I thought I could use rlock() on a shared table so each instance would know what data it can't process.... but, although I seem to remember doing this successfully many years ago, it doesn't seem to work any more. My work around, testing for the ability to fcreate() a flag file works fine. What's up with rlock(), vfp9 & xp? -- -Lew The workers took the robot for Maria. Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229529
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    - bring an object to the front programmactically object.zorder(1) send it to the back, how about bringing it to the front? -- iTech Consulting Co., Ltd. Specialized in providing ePOS solutions Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852) 2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229493
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    - Strange Problem [2] Anyone interested to remote into my computer and see the endless loop error I encountered during *HONG KONG OFFICE HOURS* (ie, 09:00-17:00 Hong Kong Time)? I could set it up for your pleasure. -- iTech Consulting Co., Ltd. Specialized in providing ePOS solutions Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852) 2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229492
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    - MOUSE Is there an easier way to move the mouse pointer to hover above a certain thisform.control? Right now, I need to compute the coordiantes myself. (reason: sys(1270)) -- iTech Consulting Co., Ltd. Specialized in providing ePOS solutions Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852) 2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229490
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    - Record Used by another user Hi, I have a Form that when run, uses the RLOCK() to lock multiple records but there are times that I get an Error "Record is Used by Another User". Is this possible? RLOCK() returned .T. I also tried to locate if other user is Editing that Record but I couldn't find anyone with that record open. Am I doing something wrong? I use TableUpdate(.t., .t.) -- Thanks, Karma Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229477
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    - Phone Dialer Does anyone have VFP code to dial a phone? I don't want to buy a control for this. It does not need to be fancy - just dial the specified phone number. Thanks. Charlie Parker Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229476
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    - MI5 Persecution: Dirk Gently on the Toronto Case Dirk was on the West Coast when he got the call. An old friend at the Toronto police department thought he would like to fly up and take a look at a homicide which had occurred the previous evening. He decided to skip the last day at the World Holistics conference and take the next plane out of San Francisco. The flight was bad; Dirk had been hit on the back of the head by the Newspaper trolley, the drinks trolley, the dinner trolley and now the gift trolley. When the hostesses weren?t trying to tear his arm off they pestered him to stop leaning into the aisle - ignoring the fact that the guy next to him was taking up one and a half seats. Air Canada used to be the flight which was so good you just didn?t wanna get off - on this occasion Dirk would be glad to see the back of the plane and the over sized alternative comedian wedged into the window seat. After breathing in a couple of lungfulls of crisp Canadian air Dirk took a taxi into town. There was a small group of demonstrators outside the MacDonalds and the taxi driver insisted on stopping on the opposite side of the street. ?Don?t Eat Meat? the placards read and the demonstrators chanted. A couple of policemen where stopping the crowd entering the restaurant itself - one held up his arm and challenged Dirk. A wave of the fax he had been sent and the policeman pushed open the door. There were few customers in the restaurant. Not surprising really with a demonstration going on outside, half the dining area roped off with tape and a dead body seated at one of the tables. ?Mr Gently sir? the officer in charge called out as he peeled one end of the tape off a column ?We were told not to touch anything til? you got here?. The body of the man slumped awkwardly in a chair. Then even a dead body would start getting uncomfortable in a MacDonalds chair after twenty minutes - and this one had been there for at least eighteen hours. Two back legs and the tail of a cat hung out of the man?s gaping mouth. Dirk turned to the officer, ?I suppose you are going to tell me this is the darndest thing you ever saw?? ?Ain?t this the darnd...?. The officer seemed annoyed that Dirk had second guessed him. ?We?re removing the body in a few minutes, so if you can get through as quick as possible? ?Many people eat cats in fast food restaurants?? Dirk asked and without waiting for an answer leant over the table to pick up an untouched burger. ?And what?s this?? he asked waving it in front of the officers face. ?It?s a Vedgie Burger? The waitress, who was cleaning one of the adjacent tables, shouted across. She walked over to Dirk. ?We started doing them because of that lot out there? she nodded towards the protesters who were pressing there faces against the windows ?They?re called Linda McCartney Vedgie burgers - ever heard of them?? Dirk suddenly felt faint, perhaps a combination of hunger and jet lag. ?This is deja vu all over again? he thought to himself. He glanced at policemen - at the badge on his shoulder ?OPD? but this wasn?t Ontario this was Toronto. OPD - Officially Pronounced Dead. It dawned on Dirk what was happening, he knew what he would see if he looked out of the window. Sure enough, there it was, the Volkswagen Beetle parked across the road - number plate 28IF - 28 IF Paul McCartney had lived. And amongst the lyrics of the song blaring out into the restaurant he could pick out the words ?I buried Paul?. Now it was though Dirk was viewing the whole scene though a TV screen. This was conspiracy. Not -a- conspiracy, or -the- conspiracy, but just plain conspiracy. ?You look faint - are you OK mister? The waitress asked. Dirk shook his head ?Probably a bit hungry? Then to economise on dialogue took out a pack of cigarettes and held it out towards the girl. She was about to take one but Dirk snatched the pack away, held it up to his mouth and drew out two cigarettes. He lit both then passed one of them to the girl. It was the closest he had come to a sexual encounter in three months. ?Want a Burger?? the waitress asked. Dirk looked down at the Vedgie Burger on the table. ?No thanks - just a plate of fries? The waitress walked away and Dirk looked around the room. Apart from a family seated in the far corner there was only one other person in the restaurant - and he wasn?t eating. The guy was about mid twenties and had straggling, shoulder length hair. On the table in front of him were lots of pieces of paper cut into squares. Every so often he would pick up a camcorder and pan it around the room and then, when he was finished, speak into a microphone which was attached to a tape recorder. Dirk walked over to where the man was sitting. The small pieces of paper had paragraphs of text written on them and were stuck to the top of table with blobs of mustard. Lines had been drawn, some solid some dotted, on the table top with a marker pen. The lines ran from one piece of paper to another. ?What are the lines for?? Dirk asked, realising straight away that ?What the hell are you doing?? would be more appropriate. ?You see? The man replied nervously ?The dotted lines are weak links and the solid lines are strong links. The dotted lines are things which are happening in the rest of the world and the solid lines are things which are happening to me. Now you see I draw over a dotted line, replacing it with a solid line, when I can link something back to me. Like this? The pen squeaked over the Formica and before Dirk could interrupt the man added. ?You see I lost my short term memory and, as a consequence have a very short attention span. I write down, record and film everything then put it all together later? ?So? Dirk interrupted. ?You filmed what happened here?? ?Yes, yes, it?s here on this tape? The man pushed the cassette across the table. On the label the words ?Grassy Knoll? had been crossed through and replaced with ?MacDonalds?. Suddenly the man sprung from his seat. Dirk turned and saw that the body was being removed on a stretcher. As it passed the man picked a small object off the edge of the stretcher itself. ?This is important? he said, laying a blood stained bullet on one of the small pieces of paper on the table. Suddenly the room was filled with a deafening throbbing sound as a Black Helicopter landed in the street outside. Two men in United Nations uniforms got out and collected the stretcher. Back at the table the long haired man was replacing all the dotted lines with solid ones. Dirk panicked and began to walk backwards at some speed. Barging through the swing doors he stumbled into the kitchen, tripped and felt himself sink slowly into a large vat. ?The guys fallen into the batter? Dick heard someone shout before he sunk below the surface. He came to sitting in a chair with the batter solidifying all over his body. He surveyed the room through two eye-holes someone had cut. Suddenly the chair on which he was sitting was picked up carried through the restaurant and out of the building. As the chair was being lifted and put into the back of a van, Dirk caught a glimpse of the waitress following him. ?Your fries mister, your plate o...?. The doors of the van shut and Dirk tried desperately to steady himself as it sped across town. Eventually the doors flew open and Dirk was flung into the road at which point the solidified batter shattered and set him free. Standing up he found himself outside the international departures terminal of Toronto airport. In the departure lounge Dirk had time to reflect on the day?s events. He had got caught up in the conspiracy theories and the haphazard welding together of pieces of irrelevant information. It was time to catch the person who was operating the bizarre cognitive engine which appeared in front of him like a fairground mirror, distorting any flaw it could find in his own, fragile, map of the real world. Dirk leant into the aisle of the plane as it took off for London. The oversized person next to him swung his arms violently as he complained about every thing from the supper in a plastic tray to the state of British politics. With a shaven head and a badly fitting suit the man looked as though he could have worked behind the reception desk of the Kremlin. However when he spoke he did so in a Liverpudlian accent. ?Me I blame the Con-serv-a-tive government, me. The Tour-rees. That-cher. Me. They need a good kicking? He jerked his feet forward and struck the seat in front with his Doc Martins. ?With these. Me Doc Martins. Doctor Martin?s, Doctor Martin?s, Doctor Martin?s Booots!? The phrase was now being sung over and over again as the man writhed in his seat and clicked his fingers. Dirk looked down at the boots and thought of the reaction most people used to deal with the paranoids at the end of the wire. A nice quick kick. ?Oi nutter - get some therapy?. This is the easy way out and perhaps the safest. After all there you are sat, alone, in front of the screen. No body language between you some paranoid. No way of telling if he really is some gibbering psycho. Look at it too long and you be drawn in. Fall into the tangled database of weird links with him. Who knows he may be watching you, reassembling and linking your experiences with his. How sure are you of you own cognitive threads. After all cognition is only a bug fix for a neurological system which was designed in a hurry - it?s abused by everyone from politicians to advertisers. If people really can convince each other that a bottle of washing up liquid is as exciting as an orgasm using just television God knows what they can do with a computer. Better to avoid the risk. A swift kick. After all if you?re Homophobic you put the boot in because you are scared of any ambiguity in your own sexuality - why not be Nutterphobic as well. Although Dirk would have liked to devoted time to tracking the culprit down he decided to let it rest. The Internet changed over the next twenty odd years. A lot of the people who used it went out and got lives. And those who already had lives burnt them away. The number of users had dwindled after someone had invented a C++ program, with truth as a variable, to deal handle politics and government. Dirk had already retired from finding old ladies cats with the help of obscure science when he got another call from Toronto. It was 4th March 2025 when he booked onto the Air Canada flight from Heathrow. The silver haired woman in the seat next to him painted bright red lipstick around her mouth. ?Of course it was no surprise to be offered the job after Claire Raynor retired? she sneered? After all I used to be a psychiatric nurse... Now if Blokes had periods they would understand...? By chance the taxi ride to Toronto mental hospital took him past the MacDonalds - where the whole thing had started. Of course it was barely recognisable having become a Church Of Scientology Vedgie Bar. Police in riot gear kept the two sets of demonstrators apart. Dirk didn?t really know what to expect when he got to the hospital. The girl at the reception desk directed him to a row of chairs in a wide well lit corridor. There was a strong smell of disinfectant, the furniture and the carpets were immaculately clean and behind the rows of teak veneer doors the ?nutters? were all safely locked away. For some reason Dirk started thinking about CompuServe forums. A tall blond woman in a white coat approached. ?Mr Gentle, I assume? ?Yes? Dirk replied shaking her by the hand. ?You?re the nurse who...? ?Doctor? She interrupted, ?Doctor Killfile? She led Dirk across the corridor towards one of the doors then stopped with her hand resting on the handle. ?Now you know about this person don?t you?? and after Dirk nodded she continued ?Don?t tell him anything about yourself - don?t let him get into you head. If he does he?ll screw it up? The door opened to reveal a frail man sitting in from of a TV screen. He had a keyboard on his lap and next to the television was a computer screen. Dirk glanced at the walls of the room and remembered that his settee at home need upholstering. The nurse left the room and the man looked up ?So you come to my daughters wedding and ask me to kill a man? he said in a dry cackling voice. ?Look? he continued, pointing at the screen, ?I know that man. They?re talking about me now - listen?. The man stared at Dirk. ?What?s your name? Are you one of my friends from the Internet? - Are the lambs still screaming Dirk?? Dirk, at first recoiled in horror, then felt a sense of anti climax. So this is what they hyped up to superstar status on the back of their own fears of madness. Dirk was reminded of the film ?A day on The Beach? where a submarine had set off to search a post nuclear World to track down a signal coming from a remote military base - only to find it was being sent by a Coke bottle half balanced on a Morse tapper. Outside the room the nurse waited for him. Because his nicotine craving had returned - and to avoid an awkward piece of dialogue - Dirk turned to her and asked . ?Patch?? Dirk took two nicotine patches from his wallet the first of which he stuck onto the inside of his arm. Stepping closer to Doctor Killfile he opened her white coat and slid his hand into the opening at the front of her dress. He pressed the patch onto her leg as close to the top of her inner thigh as he dare. She took a deep breath and then slowly breathed out. ?What Bogart could have done with these things? Dirk thought to himself. ?Is he crazy?? Dirk asked tilting his head back to towards the door. ?Who knows? Doctor Killfile replied ?We let him type away. He sees something on the TV in the morning and it keeps him busy all day. What he types doesn?t go anywhere it just stays on a mainframe in the basement. It can be read by anyone else in the building but that?s it. We got them all in here conspiracy theorists, racists, nationalists. They?ve created a world within a world really...? Her voice trailed away and she stared down the corridor for a while then added ?So long are two things are different neither will come to be in the other and so become at once both one and two.? Dirk gave her a puzzled look ?You mean their brains are fried?? ?Fried?? Killfile smiled at Dirk ?No that was Plato?. Then the smile fell from her face. ?You must remember, mister, plate o...? 732 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229459
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    - MI5 Persecution: Security Service Tribunal Denies Security Service Tribunal Denies In June 1997 the Security Service Tribunal wrote to me regarding the complaint I had brought against MI5 in February. They say, The Security Service Tribunal have now investigated your complaint and have asked me to inform you that no determination in your favour has been made on your complaint. Again, I do not believe their denials. I think MI5 *has* taken the action against me as described, and is refusing to admit what they have done. To the best of my knowledge, the Security Service Tribunal has *never* found in favour of a complainant. This tends to strongly suggest that MI5 lies on a routine basis, and the Tribunal can't fulfil its functions in the face of Security Service falsehoods. 732 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229454
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    - Last object that got focus() at the moment I clicked a button? Is adding codes to all objects' gotfocus() the only/best solution? -- iTech Consulting Co., Ltd. Specialized in providing ePOS solutions Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852) 2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229451
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    - Trapping Mouse Click on a grid Is there a way to trap a mouse click on a grid so as to make that field True or False?? I have a grid on a form that allows the user to change a columns field value to either True or False by typing either a T or F on that field. The user wants to just be able to click his mouse on the field to flip it from T to F and Back. TonySper Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229427
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    - [surve] what if... The object of a form would not lost focus when a form opens on top of it? Would it make everyone's life easier? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10) Linux 2.6.19.1 ^ ^ 17:02:01 up 24 days 23:14 0 users load average: 1.03 1.06 1.01 news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229400
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    - [VFP 9] strange problem In a form.method(), I have these: local m.xx m.xx=empty(thisform.mode) with thisform.cnCode .cmd.enabled=m.xx .txt.enabled=m.xx endwith When the .txt.enabled was set to m.xx, the form entered endless loop. If I set .txt.enabled to either .t. or .f. without referencing m.xx, it would be ok. What could cause this problem? -- iTech Consulting Co., Ltd. Specialized in providing ePOS solutions Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852) 2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229364
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    - laskey()=27 Is there a smarter way of stopping ESC from being passed from one form to another? For example, I have a formA.txt.valid() that returns .t. if lastkey()=27 for shutting down the form. I then called up a search form, and pressed ESC. The lastkey() will become 27. Now formA would see it, and formA.txt will react incorrectly. I am doing these in all search forms' unload() method: keyboard chr(254) inkey() -- iTech Consulting Co., Ltd. Specialized in providing ePOS solutions Website: http://www.itech.com.hk (IE only) Tel: (852) 2325 3883 Fax: (852)2325 8288 Tag: Generic Text Printer Tag: 229361

Hi,
I am printing BARCODE on TLP 2844 using EPL language unde VFP. I am
dumping Text File to Generic Text Printer and It will print fine, but
if I enabled PC for Arebic then Generic Text Printer will not print
anything, I had redirect output to File .. but it is thing.... why? any
solution ?

Thanx

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