RE: VFP and Office Automation (MS Excel specifically at this time)

“Automation_Example2.prg”. The examples above and the program I provided really only scratch the surface of what you can do with Excel through automation. If time allows, I’ll do a column on advanced techniques and we’ll really put Excel through its’ paces! About the Author: Matthew Jarvis

Re: [NF] Spam Filter Blues

snip Moral of the story, look in your spam folders. Wrong - get smarter freekin' clients To take, or threaten to take, legal action against someone because they haven't responded to an email(s) is just plain stupid There are sooo many things that can go wrong with email, spam

Re: VFP6 Slow down on new laptop

IBM Laptop - dual core, 1.7GHZ, large HDD, 2G RAM, Win XP Pro Application resides on a 2003 server. snip Any ideas to fix the speed issues? ODBC settings? -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: Time to argue about long vs short methods

If he's paying you by the hour, just smile all the way to the bank since he's causing extra work! I'm w/ MB on this one (and I guess you too Whil)... This sounds like an Okay - whatever you want decision that isn't worth getting yer panties in a wad over... -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA

Re: VFP and MS OutLook Contact List

I need to find and read the Outlook contact list with VFP one record at a time so we can send a email announcing a different web page. George- I'm sending you the code off-list. It's a tad too lengthy for me to feel comfy posting it on here. Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA

Re: Variable only holding 16777184 bytes of 76million byte memo field

VFP9SP1 REPLACE comments with STRTRAN(comments,replicate(['],1000),[]) all in MyTable Have you tried it w/o having VFP doing all the heavy lifting? Something like: do while not EOF() lcString = alltrim(comments) lcReplaceString = STRTRAN(comments,replicate(['],1000),[]) replace

Re: [NF] Coming in from the cold....

Good luck back at FabTrol! (It is with them again, right?) If it was FabTrol I'd be staying here!! g mj ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: using VFP triggers/stored procs

snip I just want it to happen and then shoot me an email with the bad news. Googling the topic didn't bring back a great deal of useful examples but hey, that's why we have Profox... I'd skip the email as a complication you don't need to have right now Instead write to a log file in

[NF] Coming in from the cold....

Well it's Friday and I don't feel much like being productive, so I thought I'd share some news My employer doesn't know it yet (giving notice on Monday) but I'm leaving here and going across town to become a foxpro developer once again insert sigh of relief here. Did some consulting work for

Re: [fw] Wink

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it like powerpoint or not. I dont like powerpoint as a program not just because its microsoft. Then again I could look as I have open office. Allen Allen wrote: good timing. im looking for something to do just that and I hate powerpoint Allen Happy Xmas all

Re: [fw] Wink

it was a tongue-in-cheek comment of suitability to task... Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] MB Software Solutions wrote: Matthew Jarvis wrote: http://www.itproforum.org/ (look for the link for Matt

Re: [NF] Server up-time - this story is better than all of yours together

mrgmhale wrote: Gawd, what a funny story! Amongst the best I have seen in many years. Ah, what a clever lot we are, eh? Gil It's Friday and xmas approaches... let's have a bit of fun... What's the whackiest thing you've ever had to do to just make it work or solve a problem? Matthew S.

Re: [NF] Server up-time - this story is better than all of yourstogether

Paul Hill wrote: On Dec 21, 2007 6:46 PM, mrgmhale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped The server run an access control system in a college dorm. All Fox for DOS based. Of course when the system was down nobody could get into their rooms :-) I need to be vague on purpose here... there

Re: [NF] Tablet PC Recommendations?

Lou Syracuse wrote: I do like the idea of the smartphone or iPhone, but I feel that I would be better served by something on a larger scale. Actually I have a Treo 750, snip Lou- Does it *have* to be a tablet? If not you might look at this gizmo. I'm planning on getting one soon.

Re: ASUS EEE PC

Kevin Cully wrote: After using this crazy thing called GOOGLE, it appears as if the EEE can do just fine with external monitors with resolutions of 1680x1050, 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 1024. It seems that the utility called Powerstrip helps to make this easier to configure. Shareware of US$29.95.

Re: ASUS EEE PC

Kevin Cully wrote: Very cool. Just to get this straight, you upgraded the 512 memory card to a 4G card? Wow! -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC BTW - read the fine print and make sure you are ordering what you think you're ordering http://www.directron.com/asuseeepc7011.html I was

Re: [NF] Recording Task Manager statistics to a log file for analysis

Malcolm Greene wrote: I'm looking at a complicated (non-VFP) Windows client/server application that has some performance problems. What I would like to do is capture a semi-realtime log of Task Manager stats to a log file for analysis. By stats I wanted to capture snapshots of process specific

Re: outlook e-mail help

Bryant Minard wrote: I use the following code inside of VFP. I need to add an attachment like: C:\CEMDATA.ZIP Anyone have any ideas on addinf an attachment? snip Somewhere on the VFUG website (www.vfug.org) should be my series on Office Automation, and one of the articles should have an

[NF] Salary negotiation time

I want to negotiate a new salary and currently I'm in most respects a IT Manager generalist - I do it all. One of those expert at nothing but knows something about everything more or less. I do programming in PHP and Access (some other bits as well), System Admin (Linux), Networking, DB

Re: [NF] Salary negotiation time

Whil Hentzen wrote: If you were going to quote sources for a salary increase, where would you go look and wave around as a basis for an increase in salary? Ummm, first, I'd go to my gmail account instead of my company account. :) Actually, I would probably be commended by my boss for

Re: [NF] Cold Fusion

John Harvey wrote: I'm finishing up training in the black art of Cold Fusion today at New Horizons. So far, I like what I have seen. One of the coolest things is the ability to run a query and have it return a flash data chart. Anyone else out there using CF? John Harvey We used to have

Re: [NF] Simple machines forum

Bill Arnold wrote: Mindful of wanting to give something to the group that's helped me in so many ways - here's a gem I've recently discovered and implemented for an on-line forum: Simple Machines Forum. It's for free at http://www.simplemachines.org/ I've tested some others, but chose this

Re: Flush command and system performance issues

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I am running out of ideas on how to speed up this form. Thanks in advance, Mike One way to find out - comment the FLUSH commands out and see what happens... After that I'd look at the view definitions and see if it is attempting to suck down data in one

[NF] Foreign Search Engines

To our friends out there that come from places where English isn't the predominant language... What web search engines do you use? Is there the same Google stuff available to you, just based on your local language? -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs.

Re: Friday Follies - can you guess???

Whil Hentzen wrote: snip Anyone want to guess how many lines of code are in the coverage profiler's file? Whil Is there a prize for being closest? 1st Place gets a printout of the profile or something g 479,000 At a place I used to work at (which will remain nameless) me and one

Re: [NF] any PHP4 gurus out there?

I'm working on some code to upload to a website cms via PHP. The php.INI file has max_execution_time=1200 max_input_time=1200 memory_limit=100M post_max_size=100M upload_max_filesize=100M max_file_size=100M post_max_size=100M I may be mistaken but I think Apache (assuming that

SQL to add a Totals line

Has anyone ever come up with a way to have a SQL statement add a line at the end that consists of totals of all the previous lines? Is something like that even possible? For example, if this would be the result of my SQL code: ID NameAmount Tax 4 Matt3 .10 2

Re: EZTwain problem

John Harvey wrote: Anyone ever use the EZTwain active x for VFP? I'm trying to use it and it is crashing the system when trying to enumerate the scanners. JH This doesn't directly address your problem, but the product by Dosadi (we use the Pro version) is pretty straighforward. Our

Re: [NF] Windows repair options?

Vince Teachout wrote: I had some hard drive sectors go bad on me, and (seem to have) successfully recovered them with spinrite. Some of the files on those sectors were damaged though, and I keep getting an error on startup about General Hosting services failing. Problem is, I don't know

Re: Fox printing colored cells on color printer

Whil Hentzen wrote: snipped I've never printed a VFP report in color; indeed, my color printer here is so old that it only has two colors: black and white. So I can't experiment and play around to see how/if/when/whynot I can print in color. Ideas? Whil Most colour printers allow you

Re: Backup strategy for MySQL databases in house (VFP9 front end)

Ed Leafe wrote: On Oct 19, 2007, at 1:19 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: I've got a couple clients who have a VFP9 app that uses a MySQL5 database as the backend in their shop. What advice would you give for creating a backup strategy so that the database is regularly

Re: [NF] Google Geocoder

John Weller wrote: I'm curious - what format is the lat long in? What would cLat and cLong look like? John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 It's in degrees/minutes, such as (my office, more or less): http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=enq=44.05826+-123.187866 It doesn't appear to use

Re: [NF] Google Geocoder

Jeff Johnson wrote: Google recognizes several formats. Try it in your browser bar. Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 I couldn't get radians to work, but I had the lat/long handy so went with that.. Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike

RIGHT JOIN syntax (kinda long)

Even though I'm doing all this in PostgreSQL I would think it applies to VFP as well. I'm not used to doing RIGHT JOIN's i.e. including everything in the right-side table regardless of matches in the left-side table. Basically I want to build a list of all my sales reps and tally up their

[NF] Outlook - Thunderbird email gotcha

In the process of moving to a new box at home. Old one used Outlook and I'm going with Thunderbird on the new one. My intention was to ditch all the old email but bring over my address book. As far as I can tell, and my online research has shown, is that unless you have Outlook installed on

Re: [NF] Outlook - Thunderbird email gotcha

Jeff Johnson wrote: I exported my contacts from Outlook to a .csv file. Then I imported it into Thunderbird. In Thunderbird there is kind of a familiar field mapping so you can match up the fields in Thunderbird with what they were in Outlook. Jeff snipped Okay, so I guess one

Re: [NF] Network tool

James E Harvey wrote: Is there a Free tool that will enabled a user to create a report (Excel?) of folders/files on a file server with size information. Overnight someone on the network added over 15 gigs on our file server, and I thought if I could run a report showing each folder for its

Re: [NF] Network tool

Ed Leafe wrote: Just happened to be sitting at the keyboard before getting ready for my first high school game of the season, Ed - don't you think it's about time you stopped picking on those high school kids? Graduate already g Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday -

Re: Adding Intellisense for comments

Michael J. Babcock, MCP wrote: I'd like to simply add an Intellisense script whereby when I enter my initials, it then substitutes the following: mjb current_date - ... and leaves the cursor right after the dash so that I add comments easier. I've stabbed at this but just can't seem to

[NF] Mass Mailing

I got this dropped on me this morning and it (supposedly) needs to happen TODAY. Gee - thanks for planning ahead people... We have a list of 14,000 names/emails addy's collected from a recent bike event and we are allowed to spam it once. Getting it right the first time is paramount. I have

Re: Change in luck ?

Paul Newton wrote: If anybody else sends congrats I will thank them off-list - there doesn't seem to be much point in using Ed's bandwidth to reply to everybody on-list ! Besides I met get accused of padding the stats ! Paul- It's not every day that one of us scores a FoxPro gig... some

Re: [NF] Card decks - the ultimate story

Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: One of you ne'er-do-wells just dragged my name through the mud regarding card decks. Just for that, I'm gonna subject you to the best story regarding computer programs on decks ever. snip I might have ya beat there... Freshman year, early evening at the

Re: [NF] Green electric hardware

Chet Gardiner wrote: snip Thanks for the link. Here in Sarasota Florida in the summer, when the unit would be needed, they would really need AC. People didn't even live here in any numbers until AC was available. Many homes do not have heat, but all have AC. I have gone many winters without

Re: [NF] Green electric hardware

Pete Theisen wrote: Hi Everybody! I have been hired to compile a procurement list of low power requirement high efficiency electrical equipment for a solar panel powered survival house. Those of you who have been reading my posts over the years will realize that this is somewhat new

Re: [NF] Network Fax Server on Linux?

Ken Dibble wrote: I've only used HylaFax with single modems and a small office environment, but I understand they claim to be able to scale to supporting the kind of features you're looking for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HylaFAX http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/index.php Thanks very

Re: [NF] anyone using Facebook as the new social / work network?

Stephen Russell wrote: Has anyone gotten caught up in the hype for facebook and all of it's development tools / apps that you can use? In the past few weeks it sure has gotten a huge amount of blog press. I've used LinkedIn myself, but I read recently that the general feeling among

Re: Programmatic control of router for log file capture

Joe Yoder wrote: I have a client with an EVDO card and router which provides Internet connectivity. The combination of the EVDO card and the router has been somewhat flaky. Recently I discovered that there are things to be learned through monitoring the log file from the device. The

Re: Reports: How to make a group start on a new page ???

Ailsom F. Heringer (Osklen) wrote: Foxers, I have a report grouped by “Sale_Date”, and this group starts on a new line. But when “Sale_Date” has an specific value, I have to make the group to start on a new page. Is it possible ? Maybe you can combine the group header flag with a

Re: [NF] Defining purpose (long response)

Pete Theisen wrote: Hi Everybody! snip Recently I was told by a programmer I deeply respect that my application can't work because I haven't defined what I want it to do. Of course, this is true, I've discussed what I want, but not *defined* it. snip Is this defining purpose, or must a

Re: [NF] Defining purpose (long response)

Ted Roche wrote: On 7/3/07, Matthew Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they can't state the problem into a few simple sentences, then they either don't understand the problem, haven't thought it thru all the way, or just want to throw money at a problem to make it go away... You say

Re: [NF] So M$ goes to the ultimate in low $

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/19/microsoft_windows_xp_starter/ oh for pete's sake - just give them the damn software... Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NF] Anybody using a handheld wireless device?

Looking for a recommendation from people here that might already be doing something similar to this... As a lean manufacturer we do a LOT of auditing of our inventory. Currently we print out a list of things to audit and they walk around with clipboards, find the item, count them up, enter the

Re: [NF] Anybody using a handheld wireless device?

Justin Darnell wrote: Symbol PPT8800 is my preferred device. Fairly rugged. PocketPC 2003, with .NET Compact Framework, and the controls from Symbol to handle the barcode scanner. Then I link it with a .Net web service talking to our FoxPro tables. Neat stuff. Back to the PPT8800, its a

[NF] The Top 10 Dead or Dying Computer Skills

From GlobalKnowledge: http://globalknowledge.rsys1.net/servlet/cc5?sghOQSCAQUVuHllrxIpsLMjpKHPQJhuVaVR -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages

Re: SQL question

MB Software Solutions wrote: I have a table called transactions. I want to do a query of all records for a given criteria (account number), but I also want to specially note those records where the pk doesn't exist in another table called invoice_details. Basically, I need something like

[NF] Is anyone else here getting dumber like me?

I don't know - maybe it's the crazy nature of my work, or maybe just this environment, or whatever I'm just feeling like I'm getting dumber all the time... in addition to that my stamina for sitting here working with computers for more than 9 hours is gone (that might actually be a good

Re: Screencapture.prg -- converting the clipboard image to a file on disk?

MB Software Solutions wrote: I've got Stuart Dunkel's screencapture.prg program (seen below) in my app. * mjb 05-11-06 taken from Stuart Dunkeld ProFox email dated 21 Mar 2005 for capturing the screen image DECLARE integer keybd_event IN WIN32API ; integer, integer,

Re: [NF]19 things not to do when building a website

Michael Madigan wrote: http://www.josiahcole.com/2007/02/14/a-webmasters-19-commandments/ Don't ya love it when someone tries to pass themselves off as an authority on something, and yet every other sentence it seems has a typo or otherwise grammatical error? Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager

Re: [NF] variable processing

john harvey wrote: Try sessions, cookies or hidden fields. JH snipped well, if you dumped ASP and went with PHP then a quick call to phpinfo() would tell all... Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NF] Lightweight Task Manager

Can someone recommend a nicely featured yet lightweight task manager i.e. reminder program? I've got my sales manager harping on me to install Outlook just so he can use the calendar thingy - and that ain't gonna happen... I use Outlook at home and like this calendar feature quite a bit but I

Re: Automated Import Wiz

David Crooks wrote: Is there a way to run the Import Wizard pragmatically? TIA! David L. Crooks I tried and tried to get this to work but could never get it going correctly... I was on someone else's dime so I *did* give it the ol' college try Like all electronic data exchanges

Re: Access ODBC Question

Jeff Johnson wrote: I remember that Access used to have problems with multi users. I want to read tables in an access database using ODBC. If users are accessing those tables using some other program, like Access; can I still read the tables? Jeff Shouldn't be a problem...

[NF] Win Term Services - multiple instance of apps?

Got WTS working so I can connect with both a Win box and also from my Linux desktop... Needs tweeking but seems to at least work... But I've run into a big problem with our main ERP application... each user that connects seems to be running the same instance i.e. same workspace of the app. I

Re: [NF] Win Term Services - multiple instance of apps?

Hmmm - I could be wrong about this... Maybe WTS spins up as expected after all... Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Jarvis wrote: Got WTS working so I can connect with both a Win box and also from

[NF] Installation problems - Windows 2003 Enterprise R2

Am I missing something really obvious here??? Formatted drive Downloaded the img file, burned to CD (three times), set computer to have CD/ROM in boot list... Setup never appears... Boot to Win98 floppy, try to access the CD... can see it just fine... attempt to run Setup and it says it

Re: [NF] Installation problems - Windows 2003 Enterprise R2

Matthew Jarvis wrote: Am I missing something really obvious here??? snip I believe I came up with a workaround for not being able to boot to the CD. (BTW - yes I properly did the image to CD and not just a straight copy. Also have boot order setup correctly in BIOS - but thanks for the 2x

Re: [NF] Windows 2000 password

Kent Belan wrote: I am afraid I don't know much about Linux ... I guess it may be time to learn. I am trying to get past the windows 2000 login password first ... Thanks, Kent a buddy told me about an EASY linux hack for doing just what you want - I have the details at home so if you

Re: Excel automation question

Garry Bettle wrote: Why not simply do this: oSheet.Range(A1).value = lcClipText That simple, eh? Boy, have I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue. Many thanks to both Vince Matthew. Cheers, Garry you might want to check out the Office Automation series I did on the VFUG

Re: Excel automation question

Garry Bettle wrote: Can I insert lcClipText into .Past() somehow? Just a WAG but have you tried: oExcel.ActiveSheet.Paste( lcClipText) Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking For Graphing Ideas

Jack Skelley wrote: Good Afternoon All: I am looking for ideas on how to represent what you see here: http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20062007/SC030125.HTM In a VFP8 (or 9) app. All the data already already exists in VFP tables but turning this data into a graph/report is making my

Re: Form Modifications

Virgil Bierschwale wrote: I keep getting this error message: Cannot delete objects because some are members of a parent class Here's the scenario. This company needs a new form, so I clone one (copy one), rename it and change all the values (grids, fields, etc.) like I would have done in

Re: [NF] Getting jump started - techniques...

Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: Lose your train of thought already? :) What do you do to get started on a project again, to regain that 'mental map' of a system you haven't worked with for a while, to begin working first thing in the morning without piddling around for 20 minutes trying to

Re: [NF] -- Suck-ups and Why CIOs Love Them

Bill Anderson wrote: Interesting article... http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasictaxonomyName=ManagementarticleId=288079taxonomyId=14intsrc=kc_li_story http://tinyurl.com/3c6mzf The magazine has a sidebar, called What's Wrong With Us?, with 20 flaws

Re: [NF] Backups Backups Backups

We've implemented a scheme where we write a weekly full backup to a USB drive, then each day thereafter is the differential. To restore, we use the full then the latest diff file... AND WE TESTED THE BACKUPS!! BUT there's a catch... we had a break in one time and they took an LCD monitor and

Re: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...

Michael Hawksworth wrote: snip My only advise on this is to make a plan so you don't end up making pressured decisions; look at were you want to be in x (ten?) years time and draft out a route-map of how to get there. Maybe you may plan to give yourself a year to decide but make sure you

Re: [NF] Python and the Web [Followup]

Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: I just saw that the Apache, Fedora, and Ubu wiki projects are all run on a Python-based wiki framework, moinmoin. Seems time to push this higher up on the list. What requirements are there, other than mod_python and some tweaks to httpd.conf, for Python to replace

Problem w/ combobox or SQL (long)

This actually doesn't have anything to do w/ VFP, but since the problem *may* cross over to it I didn't flag this as [NF]... forgive me if I'm wrong... I have a MS Access query that gets run for detail lines on a sub-form in an Access Form. It's the classic orders/orderdetails i.e.

[NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...

Okay, maybe it isn't necessary to jump ship just *yet*, but it's only a matter of time... I know that I'll need to do a rewrite of our MS Access front end app at some point so have been considering other apps/languages lately anyway... I haven't given dabo a fair shakedown yet.. RealBasic

VFP6 won't start properly

In all my years I've never seen this one before... Running VFP6 on a Win98 box for quite about a year or more w/o any problems... Was in it this morning importing an XLS into a table, VFP crashed... I rebooted the machine and now VFP won't start. I see the splash screen and the task is shown

Re: VFP6 won't start properly

Lou Syracuse wrote: Is it VFP itself, or a VFP-created application? If it is the latter, does the application using any Active-X controls? I've seen this exact behavior in one of our POS applications, where an OCX is missing, damaged or not registered. Only one of the four EXE files in

Re: VFP6 won't start properly

Tracy Pearson wrote: Add a -A to the shortcut to see if it starts. Can you right-click the taskbar item, and select Move? It might be an Open Window that is off the screen. I've seen this happens with the _SCREEN.Visible = .F. HTH, Tracy Okay - I'm in... It never occurred to me to

[NF] Microsoft acquires Firefox

http://msfirefox.com Be sure to check out the Fast Fun features! -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] Microsoft not handling DST well

mrgmhale wrote: OTOH there is a utility called TZEDIT that you can run on pretty much any version of Windows and manually change the TZ info. Thanks for the Heads Up. I found that utility at: http://tss.uconn.edu/windowsdst.html! Gil So if one runs this util, how do you know it fixed

Re: REPORT FORM to a file

Eugene Vital wrote: I am trying to use the REPORT FORM TO FILE with a specific printer driver but it doesn't appear to be working, does any on now if this is a known issue? Every file I get is identical, I thought VFP would use the current printer driver to write the file. snip Don't

Re: [NF] accessing MS site for volume license info

Dan Olsson wrote: snip I have no problems using the site or logging in with my passport-account (and it's still feb 8 right?) ** * Dan Olsson * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.dolittle.se Still can't get to the page directly... So I ended up

[NF] accessing MS site for volume license info

MS has a place you can go to request that they send you all the info on any volume licenses you may have. Supposedly it is here (been there before): https://eopen.microsoft.com/ But I haven't been able to connect to it for 2 days... Is it just me, or what? Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike

Re: Problem accessing Access 2K table from VFP9SP1

MB Software Solutions wrote: (This is probably an easy one for most of you...I hope!) I'm trying to simply read data from Access tables. I verify that i establish a connection to the MDB, yet the SQLEXEC fails, and when I look at AERROR() it seems to be looking for the MDB file in the

Re: [NF] Checks reordering

mrgmhale wrote: Amazing. So, I got my pound of flesh for them being unfair in how they post their parking ordinances even if it did cost me $35 in the end. Perverse sense of justice, no? heh-heh... Gil Not that I don't think you weren't 100% in the Right, but I think you got sorta

Re: [NF] Extending credit to clients?

Ted Roche wrote: I had a client I've worked with before approach me for a follow-on project. They're strapped for cash at the moment, but had been perfect with payments on time in previous project that lasted 10 months. They'd like to defer some of the costs of development for a period, which

Re: Any way to get WAN IP in VFP app?

MB Software Solutions wrote: I've got code from here that gave the IP and MAC addresses of the computer running an app. Is there a way to get the WAN ip? Do you mean the public interface, as in the result of whatismyip.com kinda thing? Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday -

Re: New Report Writer?

Fleck, Timothy wrote: Management at my company as a new mandate. 1. No New VFP Development. 2. No more Crystal report development. My question is, has anyone had any experience with a desktop reporting package that is not VFP or Crystal? I am dealing with years of bad Crystal report

Re: A Quick Help Please ... The MSFT Program With Software?

Hal Kaplan wrote: What is the name of the MSFT program (for ISV's?) that offers all the software for two years @ $400 per? TIA B+ HALinNY Are you referring to the MSDN subscription at Professional or Enterprise levels? Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that

Re: repetitive SEEKs

MB Software Solutions wrote: I've got a table called HOLIDAYS that lists the days the company isn't working. I've got calls inside an iterative loop to see if a date exists. I'm wondering if I would be better off selecting the table into a local cursor, indexing that cursor, and then

Re: repetitive SEEKs

MB Software Solutions wrote: Matthew Jarvis wrote: Since it sounds like Holidays is just a lookup table, why not load it into an array at app startup? Not much diff than a local cursor, but True, and performance-wise I'm sure that'd be quick (if not the quickest!), but alas

(sort of) FoxPro on Linux

So here's a question for ya... M$ makes a big stink about using VFP on a Linux platform, right? But Codeweaver is a company that does pretty much nothing but see to it that certain apps run on the Linux platform For example, MS Access in various flavours is listed as a supported product:

Re: [NF] Riping from DishNetWork

Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: How can I burn movies from DishNetWorks onto DVDs. I have a 625 receiver. What is the work around for copy protection. you're joking, right? Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL

[NF] Windows 98 MPREXE error

Just thought I'd throw this one to the Collective and see what might come of it... I have a few boxes around here that throw an error shortly after startup (but after login) of the 'MPREXE' variety. It's just a nuisance dialog box, and pressing a button gets past it... My research has found

Re: ON KEY with barcoding

Sietse Wijnker wrote: Hi, I've worked with some barcode scanners sofar and ech of them allowed for a prefix character in the settings. Set this prefix to the on key label and the on key label should work. Regards a merry christmas, Sietse I prefer Sietse's idea of programming the

[NF] Most clever computer related invention ever

Instead of kicking back getting my head right for the holiday, the wheels are coming off this place and I'm forced to actually be doing some real work today so much for Matt's Grand Plan for the day... Getting whimsical then - what do you think is the best and/or most useful computer

Re: [NF] SQL Server shareware

do you have MS Access? you could accomplish the same thing Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - Performance that Packs. www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Virgil Bierschwale wrote: Normally that’s what I would do.. Don't own vfp anymore Do plan on getting a

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