RE: Accessing/processing archived emails

That's not surprising - I've just realised that his reply was to me and not to the list ... DOH! -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon Sent: 13 April 2022 15:40 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails Interesting, I never saw hi

RE: Accessing/processing archived emails

Frank Vince suggested copying my old MBOX stuff into TB's default mail location ... seems to work but I am still verifying that all is OK. Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon Sent: 13 April 2022 15:28 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/proces

RE: Accessing/processing archived emails

😊 -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Mike Sent: 13 April 2022 00:35 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails When I mention an "email application" to my clients, they look at me like I have three heads. "What? Why not just use a phone app

RE: Accessing/processing archived emails

Hi Kurt To answer your question, please visit their website ... Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 23:34 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails Hey Paul - OK, no worries. Got it. On the website - d

RE: Accessing/processing archived emails

Many thanks, Frank It looks as if Vince's suggestion might very well work and would be the ideal solution. Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon Sent: 11 April 2022 23:19 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails Hi Paul,

RE: Accessing/processing archived emails

Kurt I don't really have anything to pass on in the way of info - I just Googled "em Client" and Google came up with About 2,760,000,000 results (0.49 seconds) Thankfully the first result takes you straight to their website where you can download it. I haven't yet looked at it other than as desc

RE: Accessing/processing archived emails

Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt. Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages. Paul Newton -Original Message- From: P

RE: Accessing/processing archived emails

Thanks, Ed -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: 11 April 2022 23:22 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails On Apr 11, 2022, at 17:02, paul.newton.h...@gmail.com wrote: > > Any ideas or suggestions regarding either approach (

Accessing/processing archived emails

Hi all I have several (Windows Explorer) folders containing archived TB (Thunderbird) emails which I want to review and clean up (i.e. get rid of for good). These folders have an SBD extension and these correspond to TB's folders. They contain files with no extension (these contain the actual

RE: 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro

Michael Whil eventually came back to me with the password ... my mail had gone to his spam folder Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC Sent: 08 April 2022 12:03 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visu

1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro

Hi all Following the advice given on the Hentzenwerke web site to purchase a printed version of this book on Amazon, I did so and it arrived today. I wrote to bo...@hentzenwerke.com on 26th March requesting the password for the PDF version (which I have downloa

RE: Problem replacing/deleting temporary picture file

Hi Tracy Thanks for your reply. I used Sysinternals Process Monitor to see if there was a file handle for the temp image file and there wasn't one. However, I suspect it is something along those lines. In the meantime I am using a different temp file each time and then deleting them in the form

Problem replacing/deleting temporary picture file

Hi all I have an image control whose Picture property is a temporary BMP (say Temp1.BMP). I am trying to redisplay the image control with a new Picture property of Temp2.BMP or with a modified Temp1.BMP Using GDIPlusX, I am creating the BMPs with the BitMap.Save method. Once I have used T

RE: [NF] Facets Database???

... or tails -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 04 March 2022 21:06 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Facets Database??? Welcome back, Kurt! A quick web search for "facets database" doesn't seem to point to one product, but rather a feature that s

RE: Converting RTF to HTML

This should be the one ... https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-K64g4NuEJmk0patx_U80DZte6j9uMHJ?usp -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Charlie Sent: 03 March 2022 21:55 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Converting RTF to HTML I missed the link in the earlier email

Forms layout manager

Hi all I wonder whether this might be useful and/or of interest - it can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v_JUnY-o0jJY-WvpW6N0rO2O7GolFKRd?usp =sharing Paul Newton Forms layout manager (FLM) Description This is a small utility that enables saving and

RE: Converting RTF to HTML

Any more interest anybody? -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 03 March 2022 09:48 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Cc: 'Darren' Subject: Re: Converting RTF to HTML Very handy that. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm [excessive quoting removed

Converting RTF to HTML

Hi all I spent some time looking for a utility to convert RTF to HTML and asked for help. Darren very kindly offered to help and came up with a solution based on RtfPipe, a .NET library available on nuget We are making it temporarily available here https://drive.google.com/drive/fold

RE: [SPAM] RE: Problem moving controls on a form at runtime

Thanks Jürgen For an extremely clear and easy to understand explanation. Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Jürgen Wondzinski Sent: 27 February 2022 17:00 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: AW: [SPAM] RE: Problem moving controls on a form at runtime Remember: ActiveX

RE: [SPAM] RE: Problem moving controls on a form at runtime

Many thanks Christof I hadn't but I have now and it works - quite bizarre. Do you have any kind of explanation? Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt Sent: 27 February 2022 10:50 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [SPAM] RE: Problem moving cont

RE: Problem moving controls on a form at runtime

Tracy Anchor is set to 0 - but thanks anyway Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: 26 February 2022 23:33 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Problem moving controls on a form at runtime This happens to me when the anchor is set on the control. Tra

Problem moving controls on a form at runtime

Hi all I am trying to reposition controls on a form at runtime and all is working well, except for one control (Microsoft Web Browser olecontrol). I can adjust its width and height, but whatever I have tried fails to move the control to a new Top and Left position on the form. I have tried

RE: No classes in REGISTRY.VCX

Thanks Ted I agree with your sentiments and will be following wOOdy's advice. Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 24 February 2022 11:44 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: No classes in REGISTRY.VCX I may not have all the details correct, and don't

RE: No classes in REGISTRY.VCX

Vielen danke Jürgen ... Now I can start to remedy the problem (and I'll be taking a look at the link you sent) Paul Newton -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Jürgen Wondzinski Sent: 24 February 2022 11:41 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: AW: No classes in REGISTRY.VCX Sou

No classes in REGISTRY.VCX

Hi all When I open REGISTRY.VCX from its usual location (in folder FFC), there are no classes present. I have a good copy elsewhere and when I open it the expected classes are there. So, I copied the VCX and VCT from the good location to the FFC folder but still opening it from FFC ther

RE: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

Hi Alan Yes, I have come across that problem but I'm afraid I can't remember whether we fixed it and, if so, how. I do remember that under certain conditions, the behaviour you describe does occur. Sorry I can't be of more help. Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of A

RE: VFP code window contents to HTML - request for help/collaboration

Thanks, Richard I'd definitely consider that but I'd like to take it a bit further before I do that. I have changes of colour more or less sorted and am now looking at font styles ... this is on the VFP side rather than the C#/.NET side Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behal

VFP code window contents to HTML - request for help/collaboration

Hi all I am working on a project which I hope may be of interest to VFP developers and which I intend to make available on Ed’s downloads section (if I can get it working properly). It is designed to: Use the clipboard to copy code from an open code window Fetch the contents of the clipbo

RE: Problem installing Thor

Many thanks Alan - I'll give that a try later today (I'm working on another aspect of my current project at the moment) Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 17 February 2022 12:16 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Problem installing Thor Paul My T

RE: Problem installing Thor

Thanks for your suggestion Eric. I posted a message on the group but have had no responses. My base location for Thor is Home()/Tools/Thor and I tried copying folders around so that Thor now finds the MenuDefinitions table but then I get an error "Variable 'Tool' is not found". If anybody has a

RE: Update and summary of findings: Syntax highlighting, registry settings and Tools~Options~Editor settings

Richard I have already tried exactly that ... This time for sure Hmmm, maybe NOT Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: 15 February 2022 19:30 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: Update and summary of findings: Syntax highlighting, registry setti

RE: Update and summary of findings: Syntax highlighting, registry settings and Tools~Options~Editor settings

Hi Richard I have tried setting RESOURCE OFF and it makes no difference - my code window is still showing the wrong colours. Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: 15 February 2022 17:02 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: Update and summary of findin

Update and summary of findings: Syntax highlighting, registry settings and Tools~Options~Editor settings

Hi everybody I make no apologies for reposting under a different subject but I think it is necessary to avoid confusion. After carrying out a series of tests, and restarting VFP each time I make a change, I can summarise my findings as follows (what I expect is the settings I can see in the Re

RE: VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - NOT SOLVED

Hi Richard Further investigation shows that there is still a problem. I am carrying more tests as methodically as possible and will post my findings when I have finished. I have changed the subject line accordingly. Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Se

RE: VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - SOLVED

Thanks Alan - I had never come across that one Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 15 February 2022 13:01 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - SOLVED On Tue, 15 Feb 2022,

VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - SOLVED

Hi all Although the problem has been fixed, I thought this may be helpful and/or of interest to some of you. I have also added at the bottom a REQUEST FOR HELP regarding when changes to colour settings take effect (if anybody thinks that should be a different thread, I will post another messag

RE: Problem with bbControls and MFC70.DLL

Hi Jeff Thanks for your reply and the heads up ... it is not a must for me and I am looking at alternatives. Life is too short (especially at my age) to be mucking around with multiple versions of the same(?) DLL 😊 Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Jeff Roberts Se

RE: Problem with bbControls and MFC70.DLL

Hi Tracy Thanks for your reply. That's the first thing I tried ... the OCX and MFC70.DLL are in the same (download) folder and that's where I ran REGSVR32 on both files. Might it help if I copied them to a Windows folder e.g. System32 or SYSWOW64 ? Paul BTW I tried your popup suggestion as a so

Problem with bbControls and MFC70.DLL

Hi all I am trying to install a couple of Bela Bodec's ActiveX controls but the OCXs fail to load - "Unable to load OCX!" I know that MFC70.DLL is required and I have a copy which came with the controls but I am not sure what to do with it: Which place(s) should I copy it to (I am runn

RE: Pictures and fontnames in dropdown lists and listboxes

Wow Tracy That looks just what I need. I'll give it ago later (I am in the middle of something else right now). Many thanks for the (amazingly quick) reply. Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: 11 February 2022 14:21 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subjec

Pictures and fontnames in dropdown lists and listboxes

Hi all I have come up with a rather frustrating anomaly. In the debugger I can set the picture of a particular item in a listbox or dropdown list like this (THIS is either one of the two controls) THIS.Picture(nListIndex) = "SomePicture.BMP" and it works in both cases. But if I try this T

RE: Problem installing Thor

Thanks Eric - I'll do that ... Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Eric Selje Sent: 07 February 2022 15:30 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Problem installing Thor Paul, I'd direct this question to foxprot...@googlegroups.com for best results. Eric On Mon, Feb

Problem installing Thor

Hi all I have followed the install instructions and I have Thor.APP and the "Source" folder in Home().\Tools\Thor. When I run Thor.App it complains that MenuDefintions.FPT is missing or invalid BUT instead of referring to .Tools\Thor\Source\Tables (where I can open the table without a pro

RE: Copy contents of code/editor window with formatting

Hi Christof Many, many thanks for your reply. It looks like just what I need and I will try it out later today. In the meantime I have come up with a different approach for the time being. I have created a form with an RTF OLE control and an edit box. I run the form using CTRL+F10. In my edi

RE: Copy contents of code/editor window with formatting

Hi Andy, thanks for your reply. Yes but that displays the rendered RTF and I want to work with the underlying RTF (including the various tags - e.g. font name, size, weight, style, colour etc) Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of AndyHC Sent: 07 February 2022 07:19 To

Copy contents of code/editor window with formatting

Hi all I am trying to copy the contents of the editing window that is currently active (i.e. that I am editing) as text with its RTF formatting code. What I have got (cribbed) so far is this: SET LIBRARY TO (HOME()+"Foxtools.FLL") nWHAND =_EDOPENFIL("TEST.PRG", 1) nEDstart = _EDSKIPLIN(m

RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

SFA ... 😊 -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 10 January 2022 07:49 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related) > I have everything working as expected for SCX, VCX, MNX, FRX an

RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

Thanks Alan (and all other responders) I have everything working as expected for SCX, VCX, MNX, FRX and LBX. I am still to address DBF, DBC, PRG and, perhaps, QPR The funny thing is that I can't remember having had this work in the past and had been assuming all along that VFP simply did not wor

RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

Thanks Alan, wOOdy and Michael I am going to try wOOdy's suggestion first and see where that takes me. Can anybody confirm what happens (and what the relevant registry entries are) when double-clicking on an SCX, an FRX and a VCX (not all at the same time )? Many thanks, again Paul -Origin

RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

Hi Mike Could you show us what relevant entries you have in the registry - for as long as I can remember double clicking on a PJX gives ... not an object file Paul Off to bed until tomorrow -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Michael Glassman Sent: 07 January 2022 23:52 T

RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

Tracy Tried several variations of quotes and spaces without success so far - will have another look tomorrow. Thanks again Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: 07 January 2022 23:20 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: Problem trying to run a Power

RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

Hi Tracy I tried setting the command in the registry to "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" "C:\Temp\Test1.PS1" "%1" I no longer get an error but all I see is a PowerShell window which flashes on the screen briefly and then closes ... Paul -Original Message- Fro

RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

Thanks Tracy - I'll give that a try just now ... will let you know in a few minutes Paul -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: 07 January 2022 22:55 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell comman

Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

Hi all I have been toying on and off over several years with a method of opening VFP with a MODIFY command when double-clicking a file in Explorer. For example, double-clicking on a PJX in Explorer should open VFP with the command MODIFY PROJECT NOWAIT. I am almost there, maybe. At the m

[NF] Compatibility tab missing from file properties in Explorer

Hi all I have tried two methods to restore the compatibility tab in Windows 10 In Local Group Policy Editor ~ Computer Configuration ~ Administrative Templates ~ Windows Components ~ Application Compatibility I have set "Remove Program Compatibility Property Page" to disabled. In the re

[NF] Help with LastPass

Hi all I think it was Ed who first brought LastPass to my/our attention. I have never looked back, so, thanks Ed I have a login page which requires a Customer Number and a Surname or Postcode (in my vase it will be my surname). How can I set up LastPass to save and autofill this login page?

RE: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

Thanks Man-wai I will definitely follow up on your suggestion if/when I am working with a mix of Windows and Linux machines. PaulNewton -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Man-wai Chang Sent: 25 September 2021 14:20 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Windows 10 Hom

RE: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

Thanks Ted but there was really no need to apologise ... 😊 -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 24 September 2021 22:55 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer Sorry, Paul, that was my best guess. I quit Windows netwo

RE: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

Hi Ted et al I tried everything there without success. I'm at the stage where the desktop is showing no computers on the network (not even itself) and the laptop is showing all the computers and a networked printer, but only if SMB1 is enabled (which, after Alan's warning, I don't want to do). Wo

[NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

Hi all I am afraid that I have been rather quiet since being made redundant at the end of February but I am now having a problem with "Network" in File Explorer. This is the setup: Virgin Hub 3 connected via cable to DesktopPC, Laptop, US robotics Mini NAS adapter and Netgear Powerline