Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Ajit Abraham
Hi Fred, Alternatives : If you can Programmatically read the inbox of any other email provider(hotmail, yahoo or your own domain), then you can set that email account to retrieve messages from the gmail account and then get the gmails from there. You can also download gmails into your local

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Fred Taylor
No, Dave, you misunderstood. If I log into chrome under that gmail account, then use the URL to access as a page (not in InoReader), then I get a page of XML with the contents of the Inbox for that account. The login is handled by Chrome before I access the URL, so no clear text password (or acco

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > Dave I tried your URL in the InoReader Chrome app. Says it's not formatted > correctly. > > A feed could not be found at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/feed/atom. > This does not appear to be a valid RSS or Atom feed. > > Anything else I nee

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Fred Taylor
Great idea. Thanks Ted! Fred On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > On 04/25/2014 06:36 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > > Anybody know where I can find some VFP code to get the data from the > GMail > > inbox? > > Have you tried the Fox Wiki? There's some good stuff there. > > Alternati

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Ted Roche
On 04/25/2014 06:36 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > Anybody know where I can find some VFP code to get the data from the GMail > inbox? Have you tried the Fox Wiki? There's some good stuff there. Alternatively, how about thinking outside the box? Google has filter mechanisms that lets you do some intere

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Fred Taylor
Dave I tried your URL in the InoReader Chrome app. Says it's not formatted correctly. A feed could not be found at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/feed/atom. This does not appear to be a valid RSS or Atom feed. Anything else I need to know to use this? I pasted the URL directly into Chrome add

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Fred Taylor
Thanks Jeff. It's not the highest priority on my to-do list, but it's climbing pretty rapidly. Fred On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Fred: I promised everyone on this list I would post what I have. I have > been bad because I have been trying to stay on top of my payin

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Jeff Johnson
Fred: I promised everyone on this list I would post what I have. I have been bad because I have been trying to stay on top of my paying projects. I will make it a point to post something before the end of next week. In the mean time you can Google "Google API" and look at the object model.

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Fred Taylor
Always great to have some options. Thanks Dave. Fred On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > > I've already got code for sending emails via VFP (using CDO), thanks > > anyways. What I need now is code to read the inbox to c

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > I've already got code for sending emails via VFP (using CDO), thanks > anyways. What I need now is code to read the inbox to check for any > bounces, or other failures in the sending. > > Fred Besides using IMAP or POP to access your inbox, g

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Fred Taylor
I've already got code for sending emails via VFP (using CDO), thanks anyways. What I need now is code to read the inbox to check for any bounces, or other failures in the sending. Fred On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: > I tried for a while, using CDO and BLAT but never go

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Mike Copeland
I tried for a while, using CDO and BLAT but never got it to work. Good luck! I'm not saying it can't be done, just that I never found a way so I went to Plan B (using a different email service.) Here's a good chunk of code to SEND via GMAIL from VFP... http://berezniker.com/content/pages/visual

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Fred Taylor
Well, then. Got any Python code that you're willing to share? I'll have to try to "find time" to re-immerse myself in Python. Fred On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On 4/25/2014 3:36 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: > >> Anybody know where I can find some VFP code to get the data

Re: Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Jeff Johnson
On 4/25/2014 3:36 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: Anybody know where I can find some VFP code to get the data from the GMail inbox? Fred Hey Fred! I did all of that in Python, created an executable and called it from VFP. The object model is very complex and Python and a few other languages have g

Programmatically read GMail inbox

2014-04-25 Thread Fred Taylor
Anybody know where I can find some VFP code to get the data from the GMail inbox? Fred --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subs

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
I just uploaded version 2 to this page if you want to see what I'm doing. http://www.virgilbierschwale.com/software/good-people-helping-good-people-that-are-going-through-tough-times/ Version 1 - What I did the first pass is also there You should be able to unzip it to any folder and run it as t

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
yep, but you're forgetting the heat of the battle. they're getting hit from every direction at once, including probably imbibing their favorite beverage. Or they get called away to put out another fire, and leave somebody watching it that knows even less than they do. three tables, items and sold

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Frank Cazabon
On 25/04/2014 03:06 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: ...that the printer drivers were updated and now have a problem. OK, I can't see how that happened so for now I'll rule it out as a possibility. If these are Dymo label printers, I'm pretty sure they image the print job on the PC, in the PC's me

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2014-04-25 15:02, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: Single Local Inexperienced user No plans to make it bigger A group like this might hold five to ten benefits per year You or i could do it in excel but theyre just not experienced enough to do a quick data sort Forgive me for saying though...b

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Frank Cazabon
On 25/04/2014 02:58 PM, Dan Covill wrote: Noisy power? Electrical spikes? Label printers might be affected where other equipment is not. Thanks for the suggestions but I doubt it's that as only some of the printers are affected and they are all on the same circuit and protected by APC UPSe

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Mike Copeland
...that the printer drivers were updated and now have a problem. If these are Dymo label printers, I'm pretty sure they image the print job on the PC, in the PC's memory, then stream the resulting bit-map to the printer's print head through the USB connection as a serial stream of on-off bits.

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
Single Local Inexperienced user No plans to make it bigger A group like this might hold five to ten benefits per year You or i could do it in excel but theyre just not experienced enough to do a quick data sort So im creating the auction table Grabbing the bidder name Scatter memvar Select sold

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2014-04-25 12:55, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: your way is the way I would prefer to do it as well. but time, and other circumstances dictate a grid with a data environment and direct table access and the ability for them to create records on the fly None of which I relish. Luckily they proba

RE: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Dan Covill
> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:55:37 -0400 > From: frank.caza...@gmail.com > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: Print Job Disappears > > On 25/04/2014 02:45 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: > > Ah...multiple printers acting the same way...I would suspect printer > > driver upgrade? > Meaning the pri

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Frank Cazabon
On 25/04/2014 02:45 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Ah...multiple printers acting the same way...I would suspect printer driver upgrade? Meaning the printer driver needs upgrading or was upgraded and now has a problem? The PCs are not connected to the internet, so no driver upgrade has taken place.

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Frank Cazabon
On 25/04/2014 02:14 PM, Paul Hill wrote: Maybe try issuing an EJECT after the LABEL FORM? Thanks, I will try that as a last resort as the application has been running fine without it for a long time and most times runs fine it is just once or twice a day out of maybe 50 or more prints tha

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Mike Copeland
Ah...multiple printers acting the same way...I would suspect printer driver upgrade? Frank Cazabon wrote: On 25/04/2014 01:48 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Where/how is the label printer connected? (My experience has been a USB port and shared from a workstation.) Each workstation has it's own la

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Frank Cazabon
On 25/04/2014 01:48 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Where/how is the label printer connected? (My experience has been a USB port and shared from a workstation.) Each workstation has it's own label printer attached via a USB port. No sharing involved. What usually helps is to a) uninstall the pri

Running a Batch File from VFP

2014-04-25 Thread Gene Wirchenko
Dear Vixens and Reynards: I am trying to run a batch file from VFP, and I ran into some difficulty. I have since done it a different way, but I do not know why the problem happened and would rather not have it bite me again later. I am using Windows XP. The batch file was for sen

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Paul Hill
On 25 April 2014 14:22, Frank Cazabon wrote: > I have this code in a program that has been running for over 10 years now > without a problem: > > SET PRINTER TO NAME (luValue) > LABEL FORM Parcel &lcdestination&& TO PRINTER > SET PRINTER TO NAME (lcCurrentPrinter) > > luValue is filed in w

Re: Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Mike Copeland
Where/how is the label printer connected? (My experience has been a USB port and shared from a workstation.) I have found that networking label printers helps a lot...I use a network->USB connection device from Buffalo that provides excellent performance for around $50. In fact, I've got one s

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
ok, every thing seems to be working ok. Now the hard part. in the grid column 1 = item number column 2 = description column 3 = donated by column 4 = bidder number column 5 = bidder name column 6 = sold for column 7 = donated back && if they buy it, and donate it back, it gets resold again immedi

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
your way is the way I would prefer to do it as well. but time, and other circumstances dictate a grid with a data environment and direct table access and the ability for them to create records on the fly None of which I relish. Luckily they probably never have more than 150 items to sell and 50 or

Re: [NF] Linux Mint laptop display zoom stuck on

2014-04-25 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2014-04-25 10:50, Leland F Jackson, CPA wrote: Perhaps the below link will help. Better late than never. LOL http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=151392 Regards, LelandJ Thanks, Leland...I forwarded the link to him. We'll see! __

Re: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2014-04-25 10:32, Stephen Russell wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote: Don't use "C:\Program Files" and "C:\Program Files (x86)" to store your DBFs. They are read-only in Vi$ta, 7 & 8. Try "C:\ProgramData"! -- This rule was made in 2006 a

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2014-04-24 19:43, Sytze de Boer wrote: Sheesh, I am so glad to read this (Frank) because I use grids virtually 95% of the time to enter data. I have read several posts where this is totally discouraged and I was too embarrassed to own up to it. As we all know, there are several ways to d

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
On 2014-04-24 19:28, Frank Cazabon wrote: On 24/04/2014 03:26 PM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: Hit [Enter] too soon. I was going to say that it'll be easier for you to just use the grid for showing what's in the cursor, and not using the grid for data entry. ymmv. I'

Re: Got the password thingie working well

2014-04-25 Thread Stephen Russell
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Got the password thingie working well

2014-04-25 Thread mbsoftwaresolutions
Thanks to all those who participated in the recent thread on saving passwords securely. I've got a separate table now and am using Kevin Cully's approach with little exception. So if someone steals this data, all the power to them!! iid cKeytstamp 1 Á×Ò_—šúYq=›zÅÜٝLg@S%¡$

Re: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
Well, a lot of smaller customers are still on WinXP, some might still be using VFP 6. Just a reminder! :) On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > This rule was made in 2006 and it still has to be repeated? > Ostriches Unite! -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 6

Re: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Rafael Copquin
The older we get, the more prone to Alzheimer's disease we are, so it is good to be reminded of these things :-) Rafael El 25/04/2014 11:32, Stephen Russell escribió: On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote: Don't use "C:\Program Files" and "C:\Program Files (x86)" to store your

Re: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Rafael Copquin
OK, thanks to all of you for your input Rafael El 25/04/2014 10:45, Allen escribió: My take. I have my main prog which uses OCX's running on 8. Better than 7 in my opinion. Ok, since XP, M$ has stopped the use of program files to put things in other than the basics (not updatable stuff). Matter

Re: [NF] Linux Mint laptop display zoom stuck on

2014-04-25 Thread Leland F Jackson, CPA
Perhaps the below link will help. Better late than never. LOL http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=151392 Regards, LelandJ On 04/24/2014 03:05 PM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: On 2014-04-24 15:42, Dave Thayer wrote: Try CTL-ALT- or CTL-ALT-. The X server

Re: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Stephen Russell
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote: > Don't use "C:\Program Files" and "C:\Program Files (x86)" to store your > DBFs. > They are read-only in Vi$ta, 7 & 8. Try "C:\ProgramData"! > -- This rule was made in 2006 and it still has to be repeated? Ostriches

Re: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
Don't use "C:\Program Files" and "C:\Program Files (x86)" to store your DBFs. They are read-only in Vi$ta, 7 & 8. Try "C:\ProgramData"! On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Rafael Copquin wrote: > 1. Any recommendations on how and where to install the VFP 9 SP2 ? > 2. Any caveats with running the com

Re: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Koen Piller
Hi Bernard Bout has published on Foxite a very clear do' and donot's. Koen Op vrijdag 25 april 2014 heeft Allen het volgende geschreven: > My take. > I have my main prog which uses OCX's running on 8. Better than 7 in my > opinion. > Ok, since XP, M$ has stopped the use of program files to put t

RE: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Allen
My take. I have my main prog which uses OCX's running on 8. Better than 7 in my opinion. Ok, since XP, M$ has stopped the use of program files to put things in other than the basics (not updatable stuff). Matter of opinion as to if you should or not anyway as all they have done is move it to Progra

Re: VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
I copied my app over to a folder called c:\bid_auction with the run time files and it ran fine on a new windows 8 laptop (toshiba) On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Rafael Copquin wrote: > I have a client that just got a Windows 8 box and I need to install my > application in that new OS > > 1. A

Print Job Disappears

2014-04-25 Thread Frank Cazabon
I have this code in a program that has been running for over 10 years now without a problem: SET PRINTER TO NAME (luValue) LABEL FORM Parcel &lcdestination&& TO PRINTER SET PRINTER TO NAME (lcCurrentPrinter) luValue is filed in with the name of a label printer (in this case a Dymo Labe

VFP 9 SP 2 on Windows 8

2014-04-25 Thread Rafael Copquin
I have a client that just got a Windows 8 box and I need to install my application in that new OS 1. Any recommendations on how and where to install the VFP 9 SP2 ? 2. Any caveats with running the compiled exe? 3. Any suggestions? I know this has been discussed before, but I just need a quick s

Re: grid questions

2014-04-25 Thread Alan Bourke
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014, at 12:51 AM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > I have read several posts where this is totally discouraged and I was too > embarrassed to own up to it. > You WEIRDO! ;) I think people (me among them) don't tend to do it as it tends to be a pain in the face to implement but if