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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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))
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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.)
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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.
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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...?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Field Type - VFP9sp1
What would be the best field type to work with windows/network file
paths? I wanted to use a "filepath c(254)", but this seems short.
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FOXPROCFG environmental variable
We are running a commercial VFP 9 application that respects the setting
of HELP=ON/OFF it finds in our configuration file. We set
foxprowcfg=<file_name>
at login time, primarily for the benefit of users of our custom VFP 6
applications. Because the commercial app uses a different version of
VFP than our custom apps, we were wondering if the naming convention for
a VFP configuration file exists to allow us to specify _two_
environmental variables and set things differently for each. E.g., back
in the day, we would use foxprocfg and foxprowcfg to differentiate
between the DOS and Windows versions.
Our two VFP versions are, as mentioned above 6 and 9.
Thanks in advance.
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Resetting a Menu
For years, my app has set up its menu and then gone merrily
along. I now want to have the menu configurable. How do I get the
old menuing tossed?
If I restart the program after the configuration change, it
works. It does not work when I rerun my menu setup code. (The code
is executed, and I temporarily see the changes, but when I am back at
the read events, the menu is back to as it was before my attempted
change.)
I have tried set sysmenu to default, set sysmenu nosave, release
pad all, and release menus, but none have worked.
My basic pattern is
set sysmenu automatic
set sysmenu to _medit
<define pads>
<define bars>
How do I have to modify this so that the menu is reconfigured on
subsequent runs?
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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I have preferences.
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VFP9: Cant find AUTOCOMP.DBF
Hello,
I need to remove some invalid entries from AUTOCOMP.DBF, but I can't find
the table. I searched without success.
Help please.
Thanks
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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?
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no tableupdate bug ?
Hi,
I'm using a free MyTable.
I have a MyForm with textboxes where the controlsource
points to fields of MyTable.
In MyForm.keypress I have something like this :
if nkeycode = -1 &&F2
thisform.release
endif
now here comes the tricky part
when a user changes a value in a textbox
and then hit the F2, MyForm closes.
so far so good
but the value isn't stored in the table ?!?
This also occurs when the users click on the forms X
whitout leaving the textbox.
So how can I "force" a saving of the textbox.value in the mytable ?
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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()
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MI5 Persecution: Communications with Security Service Tribunal in 1999
Communications with Security Service Tribunal in 1999
I took some more potshots at the SS-Tribunal in the first half of 1999. The correspondence between myself and the Tribunal
Secretary is detailed on this webpage. Ultimately I decided not to pursue another complaint with them, partly from Robin
Ramsay's advice (and that of a solicitor I consulted), but mostly because it was rather obvious from Mr Brooks' replies
that the Tribunal has no investigative means of its own and is that useless animal, a toothless watchdog.
Included with this first letter was a copy of the leaflet, "Complaints about the Security Service". This tells you that
the Tribunal can order "the service to end its inquiries about you; the service to destroy any records it holds about
those inquiries; the quashing of a property warrant; financial compensation". Yeah, right. Look, there's a flying pig, oink-flap, oink-flap.
My subsequent letter to Nick Brooks, Tribunal Secretary, dated 25 March 1999, said;
Dear Mr Brooks,
We spoke on the phone last week and you kindly sent a copy of the form,
"Complaints about the Security Service".
I have a few questions which I should like to ask you, before I undertake the task of
making a formal complaint. As you know I made a complaint in February 1997, and in June
of that year the tribunal made a bland and unsatisfactory statement that "no determination in
your favour has been made on your complaint". During our phone conversation I expressed
the view that the Tribunal was incapable of performing its functions and acts as a
whitewashing body for the Security Service. My questions are as follows;
(1) Has the Security Service Tribunal ever during its existence found in favour of a
compaint against MI5?
(2) Is the Tribunal able to disclose whether "no determination in your favour" is made
because MI5 claims to have no inquiries on a subject, or whether it is made because MI5
admits to actions against a subject but claims justification?
If disclosure is not possible for individual cases, then in 1997 for how many cases
(out of what total) did MI5 claim justification?
(3) Is the Tribunal able to investigate information such as British Airways passenger lists,
given that these could conclusively prove MI5 involvement? Would the Tribunal be forced to
rely on MI5 to carry out such investigations, or would it have some other means of
investigating? It might look slightly ridiculous for the Tribunal to rely on MI5 to investigate
their own misdeeds.
When I made my previous complaint to the Tribunal in 1997 I gave very little
information as to the nature of my complaint. This time I intend to give as complete
information as possible; but before I do so, I would ask you to answer the questions above, to
outline the "ground rules" for a Tribunal investigation and reporting of its results.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Brooks replied by sending me a photocopy of two pages from the 1997 Report of the Security Service Commissioner, as follows.
The photocopied pages from the 1997 Report follow.
In particular, the answers the report gives to my questions are; the Security Service Tribunal has NEVER found in favour
of a complainant; see sections 29 and 31 of the scanned report. Nick Brooks has confirmed orally over the phone that he
has no memory of the Tribunal ever finding in favour of a complainant.
Secondly, the question of whether the Tribunal is able to disclose "no determination in your favour" is because MI5 claims
to have no inquiries on a subject, or whether it's because MI5 admits to having inquiries but claims they are justified. The
answer to this one is in section 24, which says the ambiguity is intentional; and the Tribunal will in no circumstances give
an unambiguous answer of whether MI5 claims or disclaims inquiries on a subject.
In section 27 of the report, SS Commissioner Lord Justice Stuart-Smith says the blanket denials "might lead some to speculate
that members of the service are carrying out operations involving unlawful interference with property, such as the installation
of eavesdropping equipment, without first obtaining a warrant from the Home Secretary." He goes on to try to deny this speculation.
But we've heard from Peter Wright that this went on all the time in the 1960s. So why wouldn't it still be happening now? Of course it is.
The Tribunal Secretary had avoided answering the question from my previous letter, of whether the Tribunal had any independent
investigative capacity. So I asked him again.
Dear Mr Brooks,
Thank you for your letter dated 6 April enclosing an extract of the 1997 Report of the
Security Service Commissioner. This answers two of the three questions asked in my letter
of 25 March.
The third question remains. In 1993 I travelled on a British Airways flight on which
there also travelled four men, one of whom stared at me, laughed and said, "if he tries to run
away we'll find him". I took this to mean that these were the men who had been pursuing me
for some time in the UK. This leads me to ask again the last question in my previous letter;
(3) Is the Tribunal able to investigate information such as British Airways passenger lists,
given that these could conclusively prove MI5 involvement? Would the Tribunal be forced to
rely on MI5 to carry out such investigations, or would it have some other means of
investigating? It might look slightly ridiculous for the Tribunal to rely on MI5 to investigate their
own misdeeds.
I would very much hope that some means is available to the Tribunal and
Commissioner to investigate possible MI5 malefaction, other than relying on MI5 themselves.
When I receive an answer to this question from you, I will work to put together a more
comprehensive and detailed complaint for the Tribunal's consideration.
Yours sincerely,
Brooks' reply was;
Brooks doesn't want to give a direct reply to the question, since that would place him in a bad light. So he gives an indirect
answer; the tribunal, he avoids saying, has no investigative capacity; there is no mention even of any investigative capacity
provided by MI5 themselves; nobody can investigate anything, all the Tribunal can do is ask MI5, and they, in their "Alice in
Wonderland" world, can redefine the truth as it pleases them, and dissemble, and lie.
Before deciding not to put another formal complaint before the Tribunal, I asked Robin Ramsay, editor of Lobster magazine, what
he thought of the idea of making a complaint to the Tribunal. He replied;
RESPONSE Yes it is a waste of time. They will do nothing.
In a further email he elaborated;
As for quoting me on the Security Service Tribunal - if you think my
comments would mean anything, feel free. The problem people have is
this: they almost have to go through the motions of going to the
Tribunal for if they don't they will always be asked, 'Why didn't you
go the proper authorities?' (This is one of the chief functions of
'the proper authorities'.)
Robin Ramsay
So the sum of the various parts of this story is; DON'T GO TO THE TRIBUNAL. If you do, then MI5 will open a file on you (if you
don't have one already). Don't do as I did, do as I say. If you feel a really deep-seated urge to complain, do so first under an
invented name, which will make you understand just how useless the Tribunal is, how little information they provide, and how
unpleasant it is to know that you have given MI5 a reason to officially open a file on you in their Registry.
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How to Read USB Device
Dear all
I have an application ( VFP 6 ) in which Serial Port WightScale is
connected to Computer through Serial to USB convertor, I want weight
display of device in computer. How can I read it on USB port ? any
idea?
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John Harvey at Chicago FUDG on 9 Jan 07
VFP patrols the streets of Memphis!
The January Ninth 2007 meeting of the Chicago FoxPro Users & Developers Group
will feature Lt. John Harvey of the Shelby County (Tennessee) Sheriff's
Department. His application is an integrated Internet system based on SQL
Server, Visual FoxPro, Web Connect, ASP, Mapping, and Instant Messenger
technologies. It has dramatically improved police tracking of criminals and
other law enforcement data.
You definitely will get lots of new insights and inspiration.
Same time and place: 5:30pm Jan 9th, 2007 at the Monadnock Building, 53 W.
Jackson Blvd, in the famous Chicago Loop.
As always, all reasonable ideas accepted. It's a community -- indominable.
Upcoming meetings: February 13 will feature member presentations, and John
Koziol is slated for March 13.
More info: http://www.chicagofudg.com/
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Subclass programatically defined classes
I've inherited an app with numerous classes defined in PRGs. I need
minor variations on a few and since there is so much code I want to
reuse, not to mention inheritance being such a big plus, it feels like
it would
defeat the purpose to recreate them.
Is there a way to subclass these? If so can you offer suggestions or
resources on how to do so? I can't seem to find any info when
searching the web.
Thanks,
Jim Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229344
Showing decimal places in textbox?
I have a form with a textbox and CommandButton.
The Commandbutton click event is programed with:
SET FIXED ON
SET DECIMALS TO 10
thisform.text1.Value = STR(10/3)
The result I expect is 3.33(33333...) in the text box.
But it showed me only 3 (without decimal point and places).
What's the solution?ã??ï¼´ï½?ï½?ï½?ï½?ï½?ï¼?
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MI5 Persecution: Eye Say, and Lord Gnome Answers
Eye Say, and Lord Gnome Answers
My interactions with Private Eye started in May 1995, shortly after I'd started bleating on usenet. I tried to get the Eye
interested in my case, as I thought they more than anyone have their finger on the pulse, and would surely already know
something about my case. In my first email to them, entitled "pas de bouteille?" (wot no bottle?), I asked if they had the
nerve to publish what was known to many thousands of people. Their email flunky answered;
Date: Thu, 11 May 95 13:40 BST-1
From: strobes@cix.compulink.co.uk (Private Eye)
Subject: Re: pas de bouteille?
In-Reply-To: <199505102232.SAA19988@freenet.carleton.ca>
Bottle? Dunno really - but I've passed your mail on to the Ed for his
consideration.
Steve Mann
(strobes)
==========================================================
Date: Mon, 15 May 95 12:51 BST-1
From: strobes@cix.compulink.co.uk (Private Eye)
Subject: Re: hello again
In-Reply-To: <199505122236.SAA02574@freenet.carleton.ca>
Hello yourself...
Thanks for the email. Unfortunately, I can't say whether or not the Eye
will do anything with this... I'm only the messenger. As the only
computer-literate peron in the Gnome organisation, I get to read all the
email and then pass it on to the Editor.
Sorry -- not very helpful, I know.
Steve Mann
(strobes)
The following year I gave PE another little prod, which yielded the following;
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 11:38 GMT
From: strobes@cix.compulink.co.uk (Private Eye Magazine)
Subject: Re: Previous communication
In-Reply-To: <199602102320.SAA26182@[snip]>
Sorry not to reply sooner... we've been swamped with email and I have
very little time to answer it.
However, the editor sees all the email received here and I'm afraid he
hasn't expressed an interest in your story so I can only assume that he
feels it isn't for us.
Sorry.
strobes
Given that I couldn't provide the evidence to persuade the Eye of the credibility of my claims, I did the next best thing,
which was to take out classified adverts in their "Eye Say" and "Eye Tech" columns. My motivation for doing so is obvious;
the Eye is read both by many thousands of ordinary folk, but also makes its way into the homes and consciousness of the UK's
political and media elite. It is also a known favourite with "Five". What better way of taking the fight to the enemy?
The first small ad appeared on 10 Jan 1997 in issue 915 in "Eye Say". It ran in that column on 24/1/97 and 7/2/97. On 21/2/97
it ran in "Eye Tech", and on 7/3/97 and 21/3/97 again in "Eye Say".
I then changed the ad's wording to read "BBC Newsreaders Conspiracy", and the new wording ran in "Eye Say" from 4/4/97 issue 921,
18/4/97 to 2/5/97. The word "xenophobic" in the first advert had been intended to convey the sense of exclusion through the bigotry
of my enemies, both on the basis of race and mental condition, but it seemed a bit too non-specific. "BBC Newscasters Conspiracy" was
a little more immediate, although readers had to actually wade through the website to find out what it was that the newscasters were
conspiring to do.
My next effort tried to spice up the text. "MI5/BBC Conspiracy" ran for six issues in "Eye Say", from 5/9/97 issue 931 until 31/10/97.
I suppose there is something a little sad about somebody who knows he has mental illness, placing adverts about a conspiracy in which
MI5's watchers enable BBC newscasters to personally and directly communicate with him while reading the news. It is pretty sad, but
unfortunately it is also true, both in the objective reality we all inhabit, as well as in my own mind.
There followed a hiatus of about a year until I resumed advertising on 2 October 1998. I paid over £200 for six months advertising
of the new improved text "MI5 Persecution, BBC Newscasters Spying on my Home". This text ran from issue 960 until issue 972 (19 March
1999) in "Eye Say".
Private Eye's editor Ian Hislop denies knowing anything about my case, as the following email illustrates.
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:10 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From: strobes@private-eye.co.uk (Private Eye)
Subject: Re: PLEASE ANSWER - THANK YOU
CC: strobes@private-eye.co.uk
Reply-To: strobes@private-eye.co.uk
Sorry to take so long to answer. As soon as the editor
returned from holiday Steve went away. Steve is still away
and so I am answering your letter.
I have asked the editor and he knows nothing about any
conspiracy between M15 and the BBC.
Hope this helps.
Mary Aylmer
Private Eye
I must say I'm quite surprised he knows nothing; the "Eye" is usually well clued up on what's going on.
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unique object id
Is there such a property? How to access if if available?
object.name could not be unique (when using sys(1270)) once you started
wrapping things with containers.
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MI5 Persecution: Counter-surveillance sweep by Nationwide Investigations Group
Counter-surveillance sweep by Nationwide Investigations Group
In July 1994 the private detective agency Nationwide Investigations Group conducted an electronic counter-surveillance
sweep of my parents' home in London. They checked for radio transmitter devices, and tested the telephone line for attached
bugs. They found nothing.
I am afraid that I was unsurprised at their not finding any evidence of covert surveillance. It had been made very clear to me,
particularly during 1990-92, that audio, and almost certainly video, surveillance of my parents' home was taking place. But this
would not have been made quite so obvious unless the persecutors were confident of their apparatus being undetectable using the
technology the police, or a private agency like Nationwide, would be using.
I don't know very much about the surveillance technology that has been used against me, but I understand that devices can be built
which switch off on receiving a coded command, and may switch on again after a counter- surveillance sweep has completed; that devices
may rapidly alter the frequency of transmission, "frequency-hopping" devices which presumably cannot be detected in a sequential scan
of the sort employed by Nationwide; and of course "probe" microphones can be inserted "through-the-wall", although I hesitate to
believe our neighbours would permit this.
We paid Nationwide £411.25 (including VAT) for the surveillance sweep, which took them about an hour and a half to complete, using
a "Professional 5000 multi-scanner, CCL UHF scanner and Guideline telephone tap detector." As I said above, I don't know very much
about these things, so I can't comment on the capabilities or otherwise of this equipment. But clearly the "watchers" are using
technology which in 1994 was beyond the detection capabilities of a good private detective agency.
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Word Automation
I use the following code to open a word document - search for some text,
replace it with something else and then save the document with a new name. I
have two questions:
1. is there a way to search and replace the entire document with one command
rather than having to keep resetting the cursor to the home position and
looping round - potentially there could be thousands of instances of the
search text.
2. my routine does not take into account any text that appears in the
document header / footer (and probably footnotes)...how can I overcome this?
**********************************************************************
LPARAMETERS cOpen, cSave, cSearch, cReplace
loWord = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
loWord.Documents.Open(cOpen)
cSelect = loWord.Selection
DO WHILE .t.
IF !cSelect.Find.Execute(cSearch,,,,,,,,,cReplace)
EXIT
ENDIF
loWord.Selection.HomeKey && Go To Top Of Text Before Next Search
ENDDO
loWord.Documents.SaveAs(cSave)
loWord.Quit
RELEASE loWord, cSelect
***********************************************************************
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APPEND FROM TYPE XLS Date Format Q.
Hello All,
I am appending data from an XLS file and have hit a snag. Your help and
knowledge is greatly appreciated. In the excel file, I have a field which
the data is date information but looks like this 20061012. When I suck the
XLS file into my vfp table, the date field is empty ( / / ). What do I need
to do to make this work?
Respectfully,
Jonathan Morningstar
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.MEM file in old an new Fox
I am running an applicatrion partly in FPW2.6, partly in VFP9. What I have
realized is that when VFP9 updates a mem file, then when I try to read it in
FPW2.6 I get "memory file is missing/invalid". Is this misfeature documented
somewhere? Any workarounds?
Walter Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229302
conversion from Netware
I'm converting many apps/tables from a Netware server to a Windows server
(AD). These are all multi-user, and I've gone to some trouble to make sure
all necessary files are flagged sharable (in Netware), and are reflagged if
packed, etc.
Is there any such requirement for special file attributes on a Windows AD
server?
Thanks.
Chip Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229295
Incemental Search in Grid
Dear all
I am using a Text box and Grid VFP6 . In text box whatever we type
will search in Grid and make current record highlited (
DynamicBackColor) it works fine. I want that if I Type A in text box ,
all records started with A in grid would be in bold or visaversa. Will
it be possible ? how ?
Thanks in advance Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229287
Visible records
Is there a way to tell whether a certain record is being displayed in a
grid? I meant not just the recno(grid.recordsource) because it's always
in sight.
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mail merge of MS Word from foxpro database
Dear all,
Is it possible conducting the mail merge of MS Word by using the foxpro
dstabase table WITHOUT converting into other file extension (e.g. .xls,
.mdb, etc.)?
Also, how can I convert a MS Word document into the foxpro report form
(.frx)?
Thanks and regards,
Patrick Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229279
Image Editor with Crop
Hi
I have an application which needs to change contrast,brightness,
orientation, crop like option and run unver VFP6 . anyboday have any
idea?. It is very very urgent for me.. please help. I used Gripicture
but it it doen't meet my reauirement
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MI5 Persecution: Observer article
Observer article 9/March/1997
Fame at last! In an alleged book review in the Observer (Books p16), Jay Rayner writes about a "man called Bob"
(one of my many pseudonyms) in whom "a lot of people have shown an interest". Read and ponder!
Perhaps the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times" could be re-worded into "may you be considered an
interesting person". Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!
1639
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MI5 Persecution: .net magazine article
net magazine article March/1998
Britain's .net Magazine featured my website on page 17 of their March 1998 issue (number 42). They quote from the "FAQ"
pages, and also include some details of the evidence I have tried to present on my website.
The age of some of the material on the website shows in this review, which says the case "has been discussed in uk.*
newsgroups during the past year". At this time (March 1998) it has been discussed on uk.misc for three years, and there
are still occasional traces of the discussion going on.
714
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Protection from decompilatition
I've just finished new version of protection utility DeFoxII.
Major Changes Since Previous Version (DeFox)
a.. Significantly increased protection level. In particular, new
protection against debugging protected modules with most common debuggers
(including SoftICE) was added to DeFoxII.
b.. It is now possible to protect APP applications, COM servers,-both out
of process (.exe) and in process (.dll), both single-threaded and
multi-threaded,-as well as program files (.fxp, .mpx, .qpx).
c.. DeFoxII can be launched from the command line with parameters now
(this feature may be used in Project Hook).
Here is the link you may get more information and download a copy (it's
free)
http://www.grada.lv/defoxii
Leonid Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229274
Runtime Printing Issues with VFP 9.0
I have completed my application and created an EXE. Everything works
great except when I attempt to print any of the forms. I get an error
"Invalid Path or File Name" I have confirmed that the file is there
and sometimes the header of the report prints with the rest of the page
being blank. Listed below is my line of code....... Any help would be
appreciated....
Thanks
Nick
REPORT FORM reports\TRAIN_THERM TO PRINTER PROMPT NODIALOG preview FOR
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SQL Insert into Remote Views
i have a data entry form that can add new records to a remote view to a ms
sql table
i can't make any additional changes to the new record because the identity
column is 0
is there a way to get the identity column to be populated without refreshing
the view? or atleast have it returned from the inserting process?
the record shows up right away on the server with its identity column set,
but its isnt in the view...
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zorder maximum value?
How to set an object to be the bottom-most (I meant in the background)
one in its init()?
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How to create a multi installation with install shield (VFP9)?
[XP.PRO.SP2][VFP9.SP1]
Hi,
I'm new in install shield installations... my program structure installation
is:
- <program folder> generally in local machine (C:)
- <database folder> generally in network server (F: or G: .... )
How i can in the intallation process ask to end user both path for <program
folder> and <database folder>? it seems that the installation process only
ask for <program folder>.. and i want for both folders!
Note: i don't use "c:\program file\<my aplication folder>\".. i use
"c:\<program folder>\" and the same way for database folder...
TIA,
ATSP Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229248
Help Files for VFP Application
I'm about ready to put a VFP app up for market. I have another person
writing the help files for me. The dbf style help seems the easiest route
to go, but it isn't very sophisticated. At the same time, asking this
person to write html files might be a bit over his head.
I would like to know what alternatives other people might be using. I'd
like to find something simple to create, but, at the same time, have a good
look to it. It will need to be able to be indexed, TOC, link to other
sections of help, and display some graphics.
TIA.
BR Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229244
Progress bar during sqlexec()
I want to update a progress bar during a sql select using sqlexec(), but
haven't found a way to get the progress information. A work-around I have
tried is to put a timer control on the form and let this update the progress
bar. But this only "works", since it is lacking real progress informaiton.
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Buffering failure in multi-user environment
Records added by user A are showing up in user B's edit form.
I setup a simple form with a Parent and Child table. There is an "Add
Parent" button and an "Add Child" button. There is a relationship set
between the parent and the child. The child records are shown in a grid.
Buffering is set to 5 - Opt. Table buffering
There are Next, Previous and Save buttons
In a 2 user environment, both users first add a Parent record. Then each
user adds several detail records. The user who added the first parent record
then clicks Save, then Next, then Previous.
If the other user moves to a different record in the Child Grid, records
added by the other show up. Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229239
Report Writer Dynamic Font Adjustment
VFP9
Is there away way to dynamically change the font bold property depending on
a certain condition. Kind of like print when. I would like certain lines
of the report to be bolded and others not.
I know I can overlay two controls and conditionally print one bold or one
regular. I've done this with colors and fonts before. This is a
maintenance issue I'm trying to avoid.
Thanks
Tim Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229238
MI5 Persecution: cost of the operation
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-= MI5: cost of the operation -=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Here's what a couple of other people on Usenet (uk.misc) had to say
regarding the cost of running such an operation...
PO: >Have some sense, grow up and smell reality. What you are talking about
PO: >would take loads of planning, tens of thousands of pounds and lots of
PO: >people involved in the planning, execution and maintenance of it. You
PO: >must have a very high opinion of yourself to think you are worth it.
PM: >But why? And why you? Do you realize how much it would cost to keep
PM: >one person under continuous surveillance for five years? Think about
PM: >all the man/hours. Say they _just_ allocated a two man team and a
PM: >supervisor. OK., Supervisor's salary, say, #30,000 a year. Two men,
PM: >#20,000 a year each. But they'd need to work in shifts -- so it would
PM: >be six men at #20,000 (which with on-costs would work out at more like
PM: >#30,000 to the employer.)
PM: >
PM: >So, we're talking #30,000 x 6. #180,000. plus say, #40,000 for the
PM: >supervisor. #220,000. Then you've got the hardware involved. And
PM: >any transcription that needs doing. You don't think the 'Big Boss'
PM: >would listen to hours and hours of tapes, do you.
PM: >
PM: >So, all in all, you couldn't actually do the job for much less than
PM: >a quarter million a year. Over five years. What are you doing that makes
PM: >it worth the while of the state to spend over one and a quarter million
PM: >on you?
Those are pretty much the sort of calculations that went through my head
once I stopped to consider what it must be costing them to run this
operation. The partial answer is, there have been periods when the
intensity has been greater, and times when little has happened. In fact,
for much of 1993 and the first half of 1994, very little happened. Although
I don't think that was for reasons of money - if they can tap into the
taxpayer they're not going to be short of resources, are they?
The more complete answer is in the enormity of what they're doing. Relative
to the cost to British pride of seeing their country humiliated for the
persecution of their own citizens, isn't is worth the cost of four or five
people to try to bring things to a close in the manner they would wish? To
the government a million or two is quite honestly nothing - if they can
convince themselves of the necessity of what they're doing, resources will
not be the limiting factor.
714
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MI5 Persecution: Capital Radio - Chris Tarrant
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-= Capital Radio - Chris Tarrant -=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=
Capital Radio DJs have been "in on it" from the start. One of the first
things I heard in the summer of 1990 was from a Capital DJ who said, "If
he listens to Capital then he can't be all bad" (supportive, you see. We're
not bastards). Much of what came over the radio in 1990 is now so far away
the precise details have been obliterated by time. No diary was kept of the
details, and although archives if they exist may give pointers, the
ambiguity of what broadcasters said would leave that open to
re-interpretation.
In spring 1994, Chris Tarrant on his Capital morning show made an aside to
someone else in the studio, about a person he didn't identify. He said,
"You know this bloke? He says we're trying to kill him. We should be done
for attempted manslaughter".
That mirrored something I had said a day or two before. What Tarrant said
was understood by the staff member in the studio he was saying it to; they
said, "Oh no, don't say that" to Tarrant. If any archives exist of the
morning show (probably unlikely) then it could be found there; what he said
was so out of context that he would be very hard put to find an explanation.
A couple of days later, someone at the site where I was working repeated the
remark although in a different way; they said there had been people in a
computer room when automatic fire extinguishers went off and those people
were "thinking of suing for attempted manslaughter".
Finally, this isn't confined to the established radio stations. In 1990
after I had listened to a pirate radio station in South London for about
half an hour, there was an audible phone call in the background, followed
by total silence for a few moments, then shrieks of laughter. "So what are
we supposed to say now? Deadly torture? He's going to talk to us now, isn't
he?", which meant that they could hear what I would say in my room.
713
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Object reference count dll
I'm relatively certain that I've seen a public domain dll that returns the
number of references the fox is tracking for a native object, but I don't
remember it's name, programmer, or where I can get a copy. Does this ring
any bells?
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VFP9: Runnig code just before form release?
Hello,
Which form method do I use to run code just before form release? I'm
confused between Destroy and Deactivate...
Thanks for the help. Tag: list item - go top Tag: 229197
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)
Agnes napsal(a):
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> (after adding, How can I move the cursor to the 1st item of that list b=
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