Win32::FileOp question

2005-07-06 Thread shurst
I'm in need of a standard type file dialog that will allow the user to select and return multiple directories. OpenDialog() allows multiples, but only files. BrowseForFolder() allows directories, but only a single one. Is anyone aware of a dialog that allows multiple directories (or how to make Wi

Re: Store hash in SQL

2005-05-02 Thread shurst
> All, > > I'm looking for a way to store a large hash within an SQL field and recall > it at a later time. I can't seem to find any modules that will convert > hashes to text and back again, but have found plenty of XML modules that > don't seem to work. Any ideas? > > - Chris Take a look at the

Win32::GUI:AxWindow troubles

2004-04-01 Thread shurst
Is anyone out there successfully using the Win32::GUI::AxWindow module? Everything works fine until I need to get rid of the activex object and reclaim it's memory resources ( I realize the best I can hope for here is to reclaim them for perl, not the OS in general). The Release() method or u

Re: DBD::Pg PPD for 5.8?

2004-01-18 Thread shurst
Sisyphus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/17/2004 05:54:22 PM: > > I see there's a ppd for DBD::Pg at http://www.soulcage.net/ppds/ > > I'm guessing it's for perl 5.8, too, as it was put up on 6 Jan 2004 - > but I don't know for sure. > Nope, it's for 5.6.

Re: Spreadsheet-WriteExcel format problem

2003-11-14 Thread shurst
> Guys, > > This has me well and truly confused. I have even copied and pasted the lines > from the documentation, and it still won't work! > > Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? > > use strict; > use warnings; > use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel; > my $workbook = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel-

Re: Help with parsing file

2003-08-27 Thread shurst
> I have a large text file, which contains data in the form: > > parameter name="value" // comment about the line > > For example: > > LCD Display Modes="3" // Add the modes to allow them: 1=status 2=aids > 4=engine/brake temps > > I am trying to make a GUI that will allow you to see the param

Re: Get time and date for 2 weeks at a time

2003-07-15 Thread shurst
steve silvers wrote:> Quick question. I need my script to generate two weeks worth of dates and > days starting with the Saturdays.> > So on Friday 07/04/2003 my script would generate the below for the next two > weeks, and so on..> > 07/05/2003 Saturday> 07/06/2003 Sunday> 07/07/2003 Monday> 07/08

RE: embed my excel workbook into a window (was - RE: How to show UNIXdirectory structre on HTML page)

2003-06-13 Thread shurst
> > You are probably looking at TK to display the data and using Either > Win32::OLE or Spreadsheet::ParseExcel to get the data from the excel file. > Take a look at DBD::Excel. Still in its formative stages, but coming along nicely. Steve ___ Per

Re: qx(DIR) intermittent DOS failure

2003-06-12 Thread shurst
> We are observing this call: >my @dir = qx(DIR /B "$path" 2>&1); chomp(@dir); > to intermittently return absolutely NO output >if (!scalar(@dir)) { ### process strange error > when we actually KNOW that there are files in > the directory that is in $path, > mainly since the exact same

RE: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel-> new dies unexpectantly

2003-05-31 Thread shurst
> Yes, the document is open in excel. But the scripts dies on line 4 ( > Spreadsheet::WriteExcel-> new ), which should not and give me $Book > as undef so I can check it and give the user a warning to close the > sheet. Tight now the script dies with excel exception errors. > While the documen

Re: REQUIRE command

2003-03-20 Thread shurst
Chapter 13 of O'Reilly's "Advanced Perl Programming" has a great discussion of, and example code for implementing RPC in perl. It's missing a few things (encryption was the first thing I noticed), but is an excellent starting point if you choose to follow the RPC path. Steve > Really, you wa

Re: killing a process by window title; was: socket application

2003-01-29 Thread shurst
> Now, getting the window title I don't know about. I was about to suggest > Win32::Console::Title, but that, I believe, is only the command window (if > any) that is running the current script. > > Anyone? > I would try using Win32::API with autoitdll.dll (hiddensoft.com). I tested the snip

RE: Help needed

2003-01-23 Thread shurst
> > thanx a lott for the information, could you tell me something about DBD > > (Informix DBD to be specific, and Informix DBD for AIX to be more > specific). This is a pretty open-ended question! What flavor of informix do you need to connect to (Informix cisam, SE, XPS, IDS)? If you hav

RE: Duplicate Entries in Array

2003-01-07 Thread shurst
> %hash = @array; > > Now the keys of %hash are the unique values in @array. Umm, nope, now the keys of %hash are the unique even index values of @array. ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveS

Re: Convert int to bitstring

2002-12-18 Thread shurst
> I want to convert int(255) to a string of 8 ones (). I have > been trying to use unpack, but am missing something basic I think. > I was also playing with the following with less than successful > results. What am I doing wrong? One guess was the the @mask elements > are string value

Re: Does somebody have this file open?

2002-12-16 Thread shurst
> I would like to make a file read-only, but only if no other process > currently has it open. I had hoped that setting the read-only attribute > > if ( Win32::File::SetAttributes( $file, READONLY ) ) { ... } > Try this: if ($fh = Win32API::File::createFile( $file, 'r', '' ) ) {

Re: Excel to html format

2002-11-26 Thread shurst
> Hello, > I have an Excel spreadsheet that a person saves to a network > drive daily. I want to automate the task of opening the file and > saving it as html (the person can't do it themselves, their not > technical enough! ). I know the OLE modules can let you manipulate > the dat

Re: Win32 Net::SFTP

2002-11-21 Thread shurst
> Has anyone gotten this module to work on Win32? I currently get > "Can't map service name 'ssh' to port number at D: > /Perl/site/lib/Net/SFTP.pm line 36" when running the following simple code: > Just a wild guess, but have you tried defining a port for ssh in your WINNT/system32/drivers

Re: Hash_Of_Arrays Question

2002-11-18 Thread shurst
> I am having a Hash_Of_Arrays data structure: > $hash1 = { > directory1 => [ files ], > directory2 => [ files ], > directory1_subdirectory1=> [ files] > }; >

Re: Way to determine if a text file is being accessed

2002-10-30 Thread shurst
> hello to all, > > > Is there a way under windows 2000 via perl to determine when a file is > currently opened with text editor? > Peter Guzis posted code a while back that used Win32::SharedFileOpen + flock. For reasons that are unclear to me, Win32::SharedFileOpen was not being polite a

when localtime isn't?

2002-10-23 Thread shurst
Ok, localtime() has always done what I expected in the past, but on my win2k machine(and 3 others I have tested), it doesn't. Under win2k this print "TZ = $ENV{TZ}\n"; @time = localtime(); print "@time\n"; print "Local: " . scalar localtime() . "\n"; print " GMT: " . scalar gmtime() . "\n";

Re: Perl script behaves differently on separate computers

2002-10-13 Thread shurst
Is everyone running the script from cmd.exe, or are some of them using command.com? Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/10/2002 03:56:50 PM: > I have this Perl script that I want to be useful for everyone in my > department. We are all running Windows 2000 and using the same install of >

Re: Sendkeys and strange program behavior

2002-08-01 Thread shurst
Try AutoIt (http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/), great product that works very well. You may be able to do what you need with just its scripting language (compilable into exe's). If not and you need more programmatic control, I've had good luck using win32::API with the AutoItDLL ex: use Win32

Re: Fw: Hash of Hashes

2002-05-07 Thread shurst
> Thanks for the reply. I have included the result set and some more of the > code. Your help is appreciated. > > > my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:XBase:C:/Perl/progs/customer") or die > $DBI::errstr; > my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select ID, First_Name from customer") or die > $dbh->errstr(); >

Re: Socket with XML Request

2002-02-15 Thread shurst
Sorry, I got out of the 'doing other people's homework for free' business after grad school. Steve Hi Everybody, I need help on this : 1) Generate an XML request. 2) Open a TCP socket to www.somename.com on port 100. 3) Strip out any carriage returns or linefeeds fro

Win32::Clipboard with Win2000Server/Citrix

2002-02-13 Thread shurst
Does anyone know how (if possible) to get Win32::Clipboard functionality in a Citrix environment? Specifically, I would like a PerlSvc service to be able to acces a specific users clipboard. A quick search and looking through Dave Roth's book didn't get me anywhere. Thanks in advance, Steve

RE: Cobol Data conversion using Perl

2002-02-13 Thread shurst
Unfortunately, to this day I spend time maintaining legacy COBOL programs! The data resides in the .dat (data) and .idx (index) files, the others are the equivalent of C header files. The .wks is memory declarations and may not have all / the same information that exists in the data file. T

Slightly OT: A faster way?

2002-01-23 Thread shurst
Hi everyone, I am writing some modules to parse and unpack ISO 8211 encoded files (many GB of them), and am having a hard time coming up with an efficient way to extract some of the binary data. As an example, one type of file includes records consisting of 32 bit big-endian floats. Somethi

Re: OT: Re: A website, perl powered...but....MS Access or Mysql ??

2002-01-03 Thread shurst
Check out http://www.borland.com/devsupport/interbase/opensource/#interbase You can still pay $$ for 5.5 or 6.5 if you want official support. I used the MPL'd 6.01 extensively several months ago as an intermediate step while migrating a large application off of Interbase 5.5 to Informix and it