Re: Polling App

2006-12-19 Thread Peter Cushing
John Weller wrote: That's basically the same as option 2. I was concerned that VFP would hog too much of the system resources and hoping someone would have experience of a similar situation and could advise me if it does. Hi John, I run a kind of polling app that services email and print

Re: More crap dealing with custom form size at client site.....andtriplicate forms inquiry

2006-12-19 Thread Peter Cushing
MB Software Solutions wrote: some scientists using the Metric system, and some using the (whatever the Feet/Pounds/Inches/Miles/etc.) system The imperial system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_unit I was brought up as an engineer using both, and the metric system is far simpler.

Re: Netware and FPT corruption

2007-01-04 Thread Peter Cushing
Tristan Leask wrote: Morning people, A client of ours seems to getting quite a few corruptions to their data in the form of 'FPT corruptions'. I am trying to figure out what it could possibly be as they run the same systems on all of their ships. One thing that is common with the group of

Re: [NF] Installing a new HD in an old PC

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Cushing
Roman Suazo wrote: I needed to install a new HD with its corresponding OS (xp) in an old Pc (500 mhz, 128 ram, bad CD-ROM), but due to the slowness of the Pc, I prefered to install the OS by using a newer PC. Everything went fine but when I installed the HD in the old pc, XP wouldn't

Re: [NF] The end of desktop software development?

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: You must miss the joy (not) of designing pretty user interfaces for petty users who don't know their a*ses from their elbows. BG Have you got any pretty users Dave? tell me more ;-) Peter ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Can FPD2.6 application run on Windows 2003 server

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Cushing
Seng Hock Yap wrote: sorry, maybe i didn't write my question properly. the FPD2.6 application will be stored in the dump win2003 server to allow WIN98 and WINXP workstation open the FPD2.6 application. no terminal services involved, just simple sharing. will there any problem in printting ?

Re: [NF] The end of desktop software development?

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Cushing
Jean Laeremans wrote: petty # pretty...unfortunately... Oops... should have SET DYSLEXIA OFF before sending Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of

Re: Can FPD2.6 application run on Windows 2003 server

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Cushing
Seng Hock Yap wrote: Peter, thanks for your reply. how about the stabality of the FPD appliation ? No problem. We are running an FPD application with anything up to about 60 users accessing it fine. We do need to install tamedos on each workstation or the processor usage goes up into

Re: [NF] New LAN solution

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Cushing
Sietse Wijnker wrote: Hi, I'm on the point of replacing all LAN networking equipment at my home due to numerous problems where multiple devices (router, AP) have to be reset in order to get it working again. Also I've bought some new computers over the last years that have a Gigabit LAN, but

Re: [NF] Apple Computer, Inc., is dead!

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Cushing
Ed Leafe wrote: Now the lawyers will duke it out. Not heard that expression before, so looked it up: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/duke+it+out You learn something new every day :-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: [NF] Apple Computer, Inc., is dead!

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Cushing
Ed Leafe wrote: Then I guess you'll have no trouble figuring out what someone means if they say to you Put up your dukes!. Going a bit OT here but... Hope nobody says that to me at Easter when we visit LA/Vegas/Palm Springs and San Diego O:-) Looking forward to seeing the promised

Re: Weird menu effect for SkipFor clause (VFP8 SP1)

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Cushing
MB Software Solutions wrote: I've got some future online menu options that I disabled with a 1=1 in the SkipFor clause. Yet my tester is still able to run that menu option when he does his testing??!?!??? Anyone else encounter something like this? The only odd thing I've had to

Re: FoxPro on Vista

2007-01-16 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: should have read 1Gb (one) not 2Bg - whatever a Bg is!! An aging rocker that gives free holidays to Phoney Blair ;-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: I know Ed does not like lawyers but I do not know why. It really is a shame how 95% of the profession makes things bad for the other 5%. Excellent! IMHO, the real problem with computer professionals is that they are NOT. Unlike other professionals, computer pros do

Re: [NF] Rebooting Times Square

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Hal, Sorry to be pedantic but how can you choose our words carefully and with bemusement? Hi Dave, Reminds me of the Peter Kay sketch where he takes apart the phrase New and improved :-) Peter ___ Post Messages to:

Re: [NF] Synaptics Touchpads are THE WORK OF BEELZEBUB.

2007-01-25 Thread Peter Cushing
Alan Bourke wrote: Always hated them, always will. For many reasons, including not being able to disable them completely, to their tendency to freak out and start clicking and moving the mouse cursor if you so much as glance at them. So there I am, on a customer's site with my laptop,

Re: [NF] ReportTrim(ctext,nstart,nlength)

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: Wow, I am so thrilled to see that other people are getting gigged for not trimming properly. Not that I wish anyone ill or harm, just glad that it is not me. G I still blame you :-) Peter ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Irate Post to Wine -users

2007-01-26 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: I came across an annoying post in the Wine-users discussion board which I monitor from time to time dissing VFP as usual and I've posted a reply. The message annoyance and my response reads as follows: I think I made a mistake on the supported until date however, but what

Re: [NF] Extending credit to clients?

2007-01-30 Thread Peter Cushing
Ed Leafe wrote: Ted is 73 years old. Where's the smiley? I've seen some of the photos and he doesn't look that old. Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

Re: csv files and memo fields

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Cushing
Judith Barer wrote: Does anybody have an idea how I could generate a csv file programtically that would include in it the info from memo fields. What would be the simplest way to do this? I also would like to take a csv file and append it to a dbf file with memo fields. I tried converting

Re: To flush or not to flush, that is the question

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Cushing
Graham Brown (CompSYS) wrote: btw the scenario I have is exactly as you say, a parameters table holding the next available number. I had a bit of a problem a couple of years ago with the same scenario but we had two systems accessing the parameter table. The first was our old FPD 2.6 system

Re: Trouble with page footer and group footer

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Cushing
Michael Savage wrote: I have a field that I display in the Header of a page and then I redisplay it in the footer. The report has also a grouping. The grouping is set to start on a new page. What happens is this: If there are enough records in a group to print a second page and if the

Re: [NF] My laptop battery says there is 63% power left but 12 minutes left.

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Cushing
Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: We hardly got enny wimmin in here enny more, so I s'pose I gotta say it: ... or a man's inch. Mine's in centimetres ;-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: VFP 9, Grid highlighting

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Cushing
Jeff Johnson wrote: Sytze: Here is an example of a grid that is highlighted one of six different colors based on vtank.cur_ostat. This code is the .init of the grid. This takes care of everything with respect to highlighting and there is no performance problem because of the nested IIF's.

Re: VFP 9, Grid highlighting

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Cushing
Jeff Johnson wrote: Peter: I went to one of Andy Kramek's sessions at Whilfest one year on optimization of VFP. While the nested IIF's can get messy, they are significantly faster than CASE, IF-ELSE-ENDIF or using a UDF. I find the indention above works for me. I'll bear it in mind if I

Re: Refox file names

2007-02-19 Thread Peter Cushing
Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: Peter, I may have to take advantage of your offer. If so, I'll be in touch. No problem. Just send it here or the home address. Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Grid classes etc

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Cushing
Hi all, I like my grids to look a certain way and always use courier new, 10 for the font. This is a pain for a new grid; having to go through the columns and set the font. I tried creating a grid class and thought I would create one with 7 columns, then I can subclass it for anything

Re: [NF] Mount an ISO CD image as a virtual CD/DVD drive?

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Cushing
Malcolm Greene wrote: Any suggestions on a utility to mount an ISO CD image file as a virtual CD/DVD drive vs. burning throw-away CD/DVD's everytime I need to install from a downloaded ISO file? Any one have any suggestions on what to use or avoid - or should I just burn a damn CD and be

Re: Running balance

2007-02-23 Thread Peter Cushing
James E Harvey wrote: We want to create a grid that simulates the look of an Excel file that has a column that is a running total of two other columns. I can't make this work in a grid using the table itself, so I'm trying to create a cursor to use as the data source of the grid. snip

Re: [NF] Linux Advantages

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Cushing
Ted Roche wrote: And it used to be, if you had ANSI.SYS looaded, you could use ANSI escape codes to set colors (all sixteen of them!), blink, block graphics, and more. But that would be wrong. I used to have a prompt something like $e[33;44;1m$p$g which gave me some nice different

Re: VFP9 - Finding Where a Class is Used

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Cushing
Carl Lindner wrote: Suppose I have a class ge_chk. How would I generate a list of all the forms that contain this class? Download Ed's TS form, which is excellent. You do the searches on folders and file types that you define, then it gives you the results with a command button to open

Re: Realtors

2007-03-07 Thread Peter Cushing
Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: A licensed Realtor is just a member of an association. They have pathetic professional training and absurd ongoing education requirements. They are the least professional profession I have ever encountered. I heard a quote on the radio the other day about

Re: What's this I hear about VFP going away?

2007-03-19 Thread Peter Cushing
Ed Leafe wrote: If you are using Fox, keep using it as long as you like, as long as you realize that overall market share and mindshare will asymptotically approach zero. Asymptotically? That's a decent word for a Monday. I had to look it up ;-) Peter

Re: [NF] What we have here is a failure to communicate.

2007-03-23 Thread Peter Cushing
Alan Lukachko wrote: No! No! No, Mike. Its What we have here is failure to communicate from the movie cool Hand Luke - one of my favorites. The is no a before failure. I know, I lost a bet on this one. Bg Just watched the clip. It's What we GOT here is failure to communicate SET

Re: SQL Update and Objects - DOH!

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: To All, I have just come up against a really strange inconsistency error in VFP9 (may be other versions as well but I can't check). snip With oObj * This Update Fails as it should Update curTemp ; Set Id=.Id ; Where Primary_Key=2 * Endwith This

Re: [NF] - RE: Energy efficient vehicles

2007-03-30 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: The egg can never cook because the water boils at about 91 degrees. Hence SNOTTY eggs! How can I tell it's Friday afternoon ;-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: Former employer called today

2006-09-14 Thread Peter Cushing
Sytze de Boer wrote: I always say there are 3 kinds of people 1 those that stay meek and allow themselves to be treated like shit 2 those that turn into them they despise 3 those that rise above and maintain their own standard. What about: 4 Those who can't count Peter ;-)

Re: VFP Export To Excel: Memo Fields

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Cushing
Philip B wrote: I am having a problem exporting a dbf to an excel sheet with memo fields... is there a problem with exporting memo fields to excel? I have used: EXPORT FIELDS purno, vendno, company, amtopen, purdate,reqdate,notes TO lc_ExcelFile. TYPE XL5 and COPY TO (lc_ExcelFile)

Re: [NF] Mozilla Thunderbird Reply Question

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Cushing
George wrote: In Mozilla Thunderbird when I click th Reply I only get the first 40 or so lines in the body. Is there a way to increase this? TIA, George In tools/options/composition on the general tab, what is the setting for forward messages - Inline or as attachment. I always have it

Re: Error 1990????

2006-09-19 Thread Peter Cushing
MB Software Solutions wrote: I just got a bug report showing Error 1990 - Cancel. Looking in VFP help, there is NO error 1990! I thought perhaps it was a user-defined/thrown number, so I opened the project and did a Code References search for 1990 on all filesno matches. Anyone ever

Re: Tracking edits to files stored internally by app

2006-09-21 Thread Peter Cushing
Malcolm Greene wrote: Scenario: An application tracks image files by storing images in a table or by storing paths to images kept in a managed folder. When user needs to edit an image, we plan to copy the image file from table (or managed folder) to temp location and launch it via Paintbrush or

Re: crazy error moving FPW 2.5 to new xp notebook.

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Cushing
Michael Madigan wrote: I'm trying to move the development system from a working computer to another. I've never had a problem before. Now I'm getting path to target not found yet if I hit the find target button and select it there, it finds it. But when I run it, I get the same error. The

Re: [NF] So why use IE?

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Cushing
Stephen Russell wrote: For the second time in as many weeks a group of security professionals has beaten Microsoft to the punch by releasing a third-party fix for a Windows flaw that is actively being used in cyberattacks. The flaw affects Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and

Where do you store your form classes?

2006-10-03 Thread Peter Cushing
Just want to see where people store their form classes and why. When I first started using VFP I used to create a new form from scratch every time I needed one, which was a pain. Now I have created a baseform class (stored in a baseform.vcx) which has all my basic form characteristics set.

Re: [NF] About Dabo

2006-10-06 Thread Peter Cushing
Ed Leafe wrote: I write Dabo in my 'free' time. That means that between my client work and my Dabo work, I put in about 80-90 hours a week in front of my keyboard. Don't think I could be that dedicated. How do you ever manage to fit a beer in? Peter

Re: So much for SOUNDEX()

2006-10-10 Thread Peter Cushing
Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: Hey - - - Working on d-f'ing up the information in a poorly-designed database. Using SOUNDEX() for close comparisons. One it missed: Highway Federal Credit Union = H200 F364 C633 U550 Hiway Federal Credit Union = H000 F364 C633 U550 I woulda thunk but then

Re: Design question

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Cushing
Paul Newton wrote: The application is for archiving and retrieval of burial registers and related documents. Each entry (line) on each page of the burial register has to be indexed so that, again for example, he can retrieve all images pertaining to the burial of somebody called Smith between

Re: Fw: [NF] I'm back :)

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Cushing
PrinceofDevils wrote: Hi all, I'm here in The Windy City working for Baxters Credit Union - not dealing in VFP at all, but still enjoying it. Watch out for Al Capone ;-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: Printing PDFs Using VFP

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: The last post was a little screwed up. Outlook mangled the cut and past, sorry Outlook? cough, splutter Have you sold out Dave? :-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: Why will VFP9 not QUIT?

2006-10-12 Thread Peter Cushing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody knows of a reason why VFP 9 just refuses to QUIT? Tried: ON SHUTDOWN RELEASE ALL CANCEL CLEAR ALL QUIT just does nothing. No error. It happens occasionally, seemingly after I run a PRG generated by GenDbc.prg (to recreate my DB). Try a CLOSE ALL as

Re: Why will VFP9 not QUIT?

2006-10-12 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: NO!! Do not unplug the computer. Pour cold water on it first. Bad Hal Why does it have to be cold water? Is the PC excited? ;-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: Design question

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Cushing
Paul Newton wrote: Peter Tx for the mail. By all means let me have your ideas - on- or off-line as you prefer. Hi Paul, Presumably you have some sort of file for each burial register entry and therefore a PK entry. If you create a new file say burialkeys or whatever and have structure:

Re: [NF] spoken language translator

2006-10-13 Thread Peter Cushing
Jean Laeremans wrote: Another disaster in the makingdoesn't even work with written text That's right. Having seen the amount of time needed to set up voice recognition software for one person with mixed results, there's no way this is going to work properly. Peter

Re: [JOB] VFP to .NET update

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: Remember the paperless office concept? It'll be here any day now. That's what was said 20 years ago. I'm more worried about the paperless toilet :-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: _Msysmenu Pad/popup names

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Cushing
Lew Schwartz wrote: How can I get the pad popup names for the pad/popups that are dedicated to active vfp desktop items? Eg I'm interested in adding stuff to the Class and Project popups. MODIFY MENU temp and select menu button, then on menu/quick menu Peter

Re: _Msysmenu Pad/popup names

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Cushing
Lew Schwartz wrote: Hi Pete: I tried that. I don't see anything for Class or Project. Sorry, forgot they are context sensitive menus that only appear when you have a project/class open. Fox must do that part automatically so not sure how you would tag on the end of the menu. Peter

Re: [NF] Terabyte servers for the home

2006-10-17 Thread Peter Cushing
Paul Hill wrote: No choice. Digital or nothing. Well there is a choice then ;-) I chose nothing when telewest wanted to charge me £25 a month for my cable broadband. Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Terabyte servers for the home

2006-10-17 Thread Peter Cushing
Alan Bourke wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:57:05 -0400, Bill Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I absolutely hate those n-thousand-time repeated commercials that want to burn images into our minds. In between the n-thousand-time repeated actual programme of course. There have been ad

Re: [JOB] VFP to .NET update

2006-10-17 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: BTW, my life is paperless too. The commitment papers were the last papers I saw. Life is good at the institute. g Well you've got to be wierd on this list :-) http://leafe.com/archives/showMsg/306103 Peter ___ Post

Re: [JOB] VFP to .NET update

2006-10-17 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: Wise guy! What do you do, keep that link on hand to use at will? No, a quick search of the archives reveals all. I usually search them before posting a question. http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox Peter ___ Post

Re: Distributing question for VFP9/MySQL app -- sqlconnect string

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Cushing
Ted Roche wrote: snip That's too hard to chase down. Let's stick with the easy questions where we can say Hackers Guide, page 397 or Fundamentals, chapter 6 Maybe we should see if someone would actually *pay* us to answer these questions, since they make it so hard for us to do so. So how do

Adding controls to a grid column

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Cushing
Hi all, I thought it was about time I learned something new and had wanted to add a combo to a grid column for a while. Also just come across a need to have a command button as a column in a grid. Looked at the help file and it says use addobject(...) to add the control, then use

Re: [NF] How many using PHP, blah blah blah

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Cushing
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: Oh, goody. GOTOs! :) And don't forget peek and poke :-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: Adding controls to a grid column

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Cushing
Andrew Stirling wrote: Peter Once you have it in the Column, you have to choose it as the active control. Use 'CurrentControl' in the properties of the column. Yeah done that (with a commandbutton) and got it working fine. Just trying to see how you get rid of the other ones you don't want

Re: Adding controls to a grid column

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Cushing
Tracy Pearson wrote: IIRC, Select the column in the properties window you want the control added to. Drag the class from the project manager to the grid. It should be added. Tracy Thanks to all who replied. Now I can start making my forms look professional ;-) Peter

Re: Adding controls to a grid column

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Peter, Scouser - Professional?? The two are mutually exclusive - apart from when they go nikkin' BG S. Don't tell anyone. Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

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

2006-10-31 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: I may be a geek but not that much of a one. I limited myself to octal core dumps and straight assembler. You just don't drink cider g,drvvf Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: FoxTalk vs. FoxPro Advisor

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Cushing
Ed Leafe wrote: I wouldn't do business with that company solely on the basis of their deceptive subscription practices. It's not like FoxTalk is the only source of knowledge, and I strongly believe in not patronizing businesses run by scum. Apart from the sanitation, the medicine,

Re: [NF] Acer Laptop

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Cushing
Allen wrote: I have had no ends of problems with my brand new laptop. In the end I had to threaten then with Office of Fair Trading before I got my new one. Otherwise they wanted to keep repairing the old one. I am not impressed and now will not recommend them to anyone. Pity as the laptop is

Re: [NF] Acer Laptop

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Jeez Peter, That's extremely good environmental thinkinga wooden computer! If it's good enough for a Meteor plane during the war and Morgan cars, then it's good enough for me. I guess you also have a T1 Trunk BG Correction: I guess yew also have a T1 Trunk BG

Re: FW: Dominic Help on Opera V3.05 please?

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Dominic, Just had an enquiry off a customer who has VFP Opera 1998 vintage V3.05 on his machine and he has moved offices and changed address, consequently Opera doesn't seem to be picking up the new address on any of his documents Invoices, delivery notes etc even though in

Re: FW: Dominic Help on Opera V3.05 please?

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Peter, Thanks a lot that would be helpful. He doesn't seem to think that any of the reports are other than standard Opera. He's based just down the road from you as a matter of fact TRIMFAST LTD (Zip Fasteners) 5 Cheltenham Street Salford, M6 6WY. I think he's got the

Re: [NF] 35 day month?

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Cushing
Russell Stephen wrote: We need to boost revenue. So I'm making a change in our calendar. :) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6111536.stm or try the rush job calendar :-) http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Farm/7478/rush-cal.htm Peter

Re: FW: Dominic Help on Opera V3.05 please?

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Peter, Thanks a lot that would be helpful. He doesn't seem to think that any of the reports are other than standard Opera. He's based just down the road from you as a matter of fact Hi Dave, Just had a look at the standard layouts for Invoices and Delivery notes and

Re: FPW fast machine patch.

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Problem: I have standard FPW2.6 installation disks as well as the add on development kit. I have just installed both into c:\fpw26 no problems. Obviously FPW doesn't load and comes up with the divide by zero error. I have the patch (Patch26.exe) as well as the upgrade

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

2006-11-08 Thread Peter Cushing
Chet Gardiner wrote: Never had a Beezer but here are some of the ones I've owned: This one's close to my 1964 T100: http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20Directories/Triumph%20Bikes/pages/Triumph-Tiger-100SS-64.htm And my 1969 Bonny:

Re: Alternate DynamicBackColor on Grid

2006-11-09 Thread Peter Cushing
Chris Davis wrote: Hi All, I have my base grid class which has my own method to set the DynamicBackColor to color certain rows depending on whatever criteria applies. How can I implement the alternate colouring of rows i.e. green - white - green - white I can obviously make this work

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

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Cushing
Paul Newton wrote: Hi all I need to start (from VFP) a user's default mail client in compose mode - it should start with recipient and subject blank but with an attachment already attached (from VFP). What's the best way to do this ? I do not need to actually send the mail from VFP -

Re: [NF] The eight rules of interface design

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Cushing
Russell Stephen wrote: To improve the usability of an application it is important to have a well designed interface. Shneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design are a guide to good interaction design. http://tinyurl.com/dyb8r It's a nice short read. Well worth the few min. of

Re: What is the CORRECT way to code this SQL statement?

2006-11-14 Thread Peter Cushing
Ed Leafe wrote: SELECT * FROM FileA ; JOIN FileB ON FileA.store_no + FileA.slsper + FileA.division = ; FileB.store_no + FileB.slsper + FileB.division There's nothing wrong with your syntax, although with large tables it may be a lot slower. You could also use

Re: [NF] The eight rules of interface design

2006-11-14 Thread Peter Cushing
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: 9. Don't code on a Friday afternoon when you have been to the pub. :-) No, no, no I have found that I can be incredibly productive, measured by the classic standard, loc, after a couple dozen beers. I can crank out more code than a whole department of

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

2006-11-15 Thread Peter Cushing
John J. Mihaljevic wrote: I'm on VFP6. These are just tables in a database - no views are involved. And I'm using pessimistic buffering. Why have you chosen pessimist buffering? This keeps the record locked for the whole time you are editing, which will be giving you the Record in use

Re: delay init

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

Re: [NF] Paypal and development services

2006-11-17 Thread Peter Cushing
Virgil Bierschwale wrote: Thanks. I tried that last night and it appears to work that way. My concern is this. Somewhere I heard that somebody did a lot more business then they expected too and paypal would not give them their money which they needed to purchase inventory to fulfill the

Re: [NF] Paypal and development services

2006-11-17 Thread Peter Cushing
Kevin Cully wrote: How come if you click on the Alternatives graphic, that you link into only one alternative site? Shouldn't a non-biased site suggest multiple alternatives? You're right. I would have expected a list and some comment. I have read a few horror stories from several

Re: Weird report issue - not printing all pages

2006-11-23 Thread Peter Cushing
Michael Savage wrote: snip What happens is the printer prints 46 pages and stops (returns to ready) The user then has to rerun the report specifying pages 47 to 66. If the user preivews the report it shows all 66 pages. Do you have a PDF printer installed that you can print to a file.

Re: laser printer sharing

2006-11-24 Thread Peter Cushing
pamechu umgobwe wrote: SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 80 SET PRINTER TO default SET PRINTER off SET PRINTER TO NAME \\printserver\inv1 SET PRINTER ON _pcopies = 3 _peject='NONE' printjob report form inv1 to printer noconsole endprintjob SET PRINTER off SET PRINTER TO NAME

Re: [NF] Printers a-go-go

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Cushing
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: There's no such thing as a stupid question. Wanna bet? (get it? rof'l) I said to an Irishman: Q: Why do Irish people always answer a question with a question? A: Who told you that? (Sorry Alan) Peter :-)

Re: [NF] more network questions

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Andy, Buy a Linksys wireless ADSL Modem/Router http://www.linksys.co.uk/acatalog/WAG200G.html £56.00, but available for less on Amazon, and make your life easier. Dave Crozier Or the one I bought recently for £39.99 but now £37.08 (ex vat)

Grid question - word wrap in column header

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Cushing
Hi all, What I want to do is word wrap in a column header of a grid. Can't see a property that will do it so far. Also tried creating a form property of thisform.cHeader = Days + chr(13)+ chr(10)+ before and putting eval(thisform.cHeader) in the caption but this doesn't work either. The

Re: Grid question - word wrap in column header

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Cushing
Allen wrote: The header has a wordwrap property. But this is only a recent thing Allen Sorry, forgot to say I'm on VFP7. what version has this property? Maybe someone has done it with 7 or earlier? I may be forced to use some textspeak :-[ I can use Days B4 for the header that's a bit

Re: Grid question - word wrap in column header

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Peter, I thought that VFP7 SP1 had the wordwrap on column headers. I haven't got it on my machine but Tamar's paper confirms it: http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Materials/newlang7.html Search for Header on the Page Sorry guys, I must have had the wrong thing

Re: [NF] Stupid Mac Tricks - why?

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: B+ Very good Hal :-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings,

Re: [NF] more network questions

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Cushing
Andy Davies wrote: this page suggests that the two-router setup will work just fine: http://www.grc.com/nat/nats.htm Looks like an interesting page and will have a good read of it later. The ideal thing for a Friday afternoon. Thanks, Peter

Re: leafe.com mailing list memberships reminder

2006-12-01 Thread Peter Cushing
Michael Hawksworth wrote: one of which was to add to the SPAM ;) The guy I work with who looks after the email said that spam volumes have ramped up recently. We have had to upgrade the mailserver software (and consequently the hardware) to cope with the new demands. One thing he

Re: An Alternative to Norton ... Suggestions Please

2006-12-04 Thread Peter Cushing
Allen wrote: I use AVG We also use AVG here and mostly it has been great. There has been the odd virus not detected but they are very rare. You have to be careful with the scheduled scans when installing as it can try to scan the whole machine every morning when it is turned on. Users

Re: The Joy Of Specs

2006-12-05 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: Hey! This is a family list! Whil's kids get to see what goes on here every time they have to pick him up and carry him to bed. g I thought you were busy? Get back to work ;-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: Grid class defined as read-only, but editing is allowed

2006-12-06 Thread Peter Cushing
John J. Mihaljevic wrote: So, I guess my next question is this. Is there a way to make all columns in a grid default to ReadOnly=.t.? I could go through the grid (after I build it with the builder) and change each column to ReadOnly=.f., but if there's a quicker easier way, I'd prefer that.

Re: [NF] Testing again...

2006-12-08 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Tristan, Not up for long enough - need Viagra! I saw something in one of my emails about viagra. Now where was it. ;-) Peter ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Testing again...

2006-12-08 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: I thought viagra was a no-no word on this list's bot. I guess not. As a Pfizer stockholder, I want to encourage everyone to buy Viagra, Lipitor, and all our other fine meds. I don't care if you take them or flush them down the toilet as long as you buy as much as you

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