Re: win32 issue

2006-04-26 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Timothy Johnson wrote: I don’t think this is enough information. * What is the value of $wordfile? * I’m assuming you’re trying to launch an instance of Microsoft Word. Is it installed on both systems? * What is your permission level on the systems? * What is the

Re: TK question

2006-02-07 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Spencer_Lists wrote: Greetings perl-win32-users, This is really a TK question but I can't find a way to join the TK list in order to post. It does not show up in the subscriptions list. I have a TK Canvas on which I have drawn 128 polygons representing the extended MIDI piano keyboard. I have

Win32::OLE and Acroread anybody?

2006-01-16 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Greetings, Wondering if anyone has had any success controlling Adobe Acroreader thru OLE. There appears to be limited functionality exposed, as seen in OLE browser, but I didn't get past the first hurdle $acroApp = Win32::OLE-new('???'); Any clue most welcome. TIA - Lynn.

Re: Win32::OLE and Acroread anybody?

2006-01-16 Thread Lynn. Rickards
these and anything else I tried thus far, return Invalid class string I'm starting to think Adobe have crippled the Reader API. Maybe time to try working with SendKeys... :-( On 1/16/06, LYNN. RICKARDS [LINK: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Wondering if anyone

Re: Win32::OLE and Acroread anybody?

2006-01-16 Thread Lynn. Rickards
- though the first is indicated valid in acrord32.dll these and anything else I tried thus far, return Invalid class string I'm starting to think Adobe have crippled the Reader API. Maybe time to try working with SendKeys... :-( On 1/16/06, LYNN. RICKARDS [LINK: mailto

Re: converting from Row, Column to Cell Name, and back, in Excel

2006-01-04 Thread Lynn. Rickards
From: Glen Plantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Folks, Could someone tell me how to convert from the Row, Column ( 1,1) reference to a Cell to using the Cell Name ( A1) ? I know this is an FAQ, but I can't seem to find an answer. Thanks for the help. Glen

Win32, Excel CommandButtons, picture=bitblt

2006-01-03 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Greetings, Finally figured that CommandButtons don't take an image filename but need the bitblt thingy available from LoadPicture in stdole.tlb library. Eg: my $cellHeight = 12.75; #Standard cell my $NewButton = $workSheet-OLEObjects-Add(Forms.CommandButton.1); # Can set a bunch of properties

Re: uninitialized value in numeric gt ???

2006-01-03 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Michael D Schleif wrote: Happy New Year! I just installed spamassassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on a debian box. Everything appears to be running OK, except these incessant errors: Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt() at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DB_File.pm line 271. I have googled to no avail.

Re: Win32::OLE to write macro to Excel workbook?

2005-12-30 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Jan Dubois wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Lynn. Rickards wrote: Thanks - that's a whole lot of steps in the right direction, but brings up the question what is perlCOM? I have the PDK but no sign there, and all the refs seem to indicate that is where it should be. PerlCOM used to be part

Re: Why do they insist on making PPM so difficult to troubleshoot ??

2005-12-23 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Sisyphus wrote: Hi, D:\pscrptppm install DBI PPM::PPD::init: not a PPD and not a file: Ok ... something funny is happening here. First thing I'd like to do is take a look at the PPD file. Where is it ? More importantly, where is the documentation that enables me to find its location ? That

What's up with AS ppm repository? (was - Why do they insist on making PPM so difficult to troubleshoot ??)

2005-12-23 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Lynn. Rickards wrote: Sisyphus wrote: Hi, D:\pscrptppm install DBI PPM::PPD::init: not a PPD and not a file: Ok ... something funny is happening here. First thing I'd like to do is take a look at the PPD file. Where is it ? More importantly, where is the documentation that enables me

Re: [aswin32] Re: How to disable a control without changing appearance

2005-12-19 Thread Lynn. Rickards
{}, ); On 12/18/05, *Robert May* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lynn. Rickards wrote: Chris Rogers wrote: I'm looking for a way to disable a control (widget) without changing it's appearance. I would like to be able to do this for any type

Re: How to disable a control without changing appearance

2005-12-17 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Chris Rogers wrote: I'm looking for a way to disable a control (widget) without changing it's appearance. I would like to be able to do this for any type of control. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris Tk? Win32? Either way, what comes to mind instead of disabling, is

Re: List of Packages Supplied with ActivePerl Vx.y.z?

2005-11-10 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Randy Kobes wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Veli-Pekka Tätilä wrote: Hi, A quick and simple question: How can I tell which packages are supplied with a given Active State Perl release? I've often been wondering this when distributing some of my own scripts to other people running Windows.

RE: Can a variable be made like this?

2004-03-24 Thread Lynn. Rickards
No... you [don't really] want perl -e $x='hello';${$x}='Check this';print $hello; YOU WOULD BE BETTER TO USE A HASH... Why do you need this [very unsafe] construct? Kind regards, Mark Anderson SMS Deployment Good advice. #!perl -w use strict; my %greeting;

RE: Windows not passing args. in @ARGV - why not???

2004-03-05 Thread Lynn. Rickards
I need some help with a dumb problem I've got: For some reason, arguments from the Windows cmd.exe command line are no longer being passed into my Perl scripts via @ARGV. Used to work fine. I tried removing Perl. Reinstalled (ActiveState) Perl (5.8.3.809-MSWin32-x86.msi) (on XP). No help!

RE: Win32::FileOp - BrowseForFolder

2004-03-03 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Hi all, I'm using the function BrowseForFolder from the Win32::FileOp module. Is there a possibility to use a root folder that is not a CSIDL_... constant (e.g. like c:/perl/site/lib or so)? The user of my application has to browse for a folder multiple times. If he always has to

RE: Perl and delphi interaction query.

2004-02-10 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beckett Richard-qswi266 Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Perl and delphi interaction query. Guys, I inherited a delphi GUI, which is too complicated to

RE: Perl 5.8 IIS 5.0 hangs on script failure

2004-01-08 Thread Lynn. Rickards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I understood that in the very first email you adviced me to use eval. In fact, I replied to you saying that the script printed the error and PerlIS did not hang. But... what if I have dozens of scripts I have coded in years and all of them use one or

RE: Read Fixed width database

2004-01-07 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Hi All! Is there an easy way (or module) to turn a flat fixed-width database into useful data? I would like to dump particular database fields into a hash. Tom Jones12345 Something Dr. Atlanta GA25467 JohnDoe 1704 Green Street Boston MA

Re: subroutine name

2003-12-19 Thread Lynn. Rickards
On Friday 19 December 2003 15:41, Eckart Uhlig wrote: Hi all, is there a way to determine the name of the current called subroutine? I don't want to print out the subroutine's name explicitly, I'm hoping for a 'magic' variable/ function or something like that, which I can pass to a plain

RE: Capturing X.

2003-12-18 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Beckett Richard-qswi266 Guys, Does anyone know how to catch the user pressing the X in the corner of the window, like I can catch the Control-C? $SIG{INT} = \control_c; That's a function of the wm - use protocol to trap the event: $mw-protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW', [ sub

RE: unlink

2003-12-16 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Hey Listers- This is not homework. I am teaching myself perl. Question: Does the unlink command not work on windows? The book I am using has some code examples using it but I am wondering if it might be UNIX specific. I hope my code isn't that bad. Thanks! Eric Unlink works even

RE: What about Win32-MAPI?

2003-11-20 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Guillermo Lopez Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:51 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: What about Win32-MAPI? Hi all, Does anybody know anything about Win32-MAPI? I can not find this

RE: How to install modules that aren't available in ActiveState's repository?

2003-11-11 Thread Lynn. Rickards
perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::SAX::Machines" There is a ton of dependencies and you will need either to ppm those with XS content first (hope they're all available...) or have MSVC installed to compile the DLLs. Checking the buildstatus pages on http://ppm.activestate.comthere appear

RE: Looking for a window

2003-11-08 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Maybe useful to mention that there are a number of sample scripts included with the CPAN distro that you won't find in the ppm. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Messenger, Mark Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:52 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: HTML::Parser

2003-10-16 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Noushad Dawood Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HTML::Parser I don't know why this error still comes up? I got all these files properly installed in my

RE: Tk forgetting grid labels.

2003-10-16 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beckett Richard-qswi266 Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:07 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Tk forgetting grid labels. Guys, I have a Tk GUI, which contains a notebook. On a particular

RE: HTML::Parser

2003-10-16 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Noushad Dawood Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: HTML::Parser Lynn, I've 2 sets of lib. May be it is conflicting. Now I've

RE: TK positioning viewable area of scrolled rotext

2003-10-08 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beckett Richard-qswi266 Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 6:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: TK positioning viewable area of scrolled rotext Guys, I am using a scrolled rotext widget with 2

RE: Capturing the output of a sytem() command

2003-10-06 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:21 AM To: 'George Gallen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Capturing the output of a sytem() command Let me clarify ths slightly. I'm

RE: Capturing the output of a sytem() command

2003-10-06 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: Lynn. Rickards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:43 PM To: 'George Gallen'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Capturing the output of a sytem() command -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Spreadsheet-like data entry/editing in PerlTk?

2003-09-30 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dax T. Games Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Spreadsheet-like data entry/editing in PerlTk? Does anyone know of a Tk widget or have some sample code that

RE: Perl editors

2003-09-23 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of $Bill Luebkert Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Perl editors Cameron Dorey wrote: REAL (old) men use the toggle switches on the front of the box! A

RE: empty versus zero

2003-08-14 Thread Lynn. Rickards
I think this is a fairly simple question... How can I count empty values in an array? This count should not include zeros or non-empty values. Below is my current script, but it isn't working properly. I appreciate any assitance that you may provide. Thank you, David #!perl -w #

RE: empty versus zero

2003-08-14 Thread Lynn. Rickards
Of Will of Thornhenge Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'David Byrne' Subject: Re: empty versus zero I prefer Lynn. Rickards' method to the others I've seen mentioned. Testing whether the value is defined will always work quietly and swiftly; several of the other tests

RE: What is wrong with this?

2003-08-14 Thread Lynn. Rickards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of steve silvers Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What is wrong with this? I don't understand why the output of the below snippet kind of blows up.. --TEXT