Re: [U2] Universe and data-stacking

2012-09-27 Thread Brian Leach
Susan Execute runs differently in different flavors. EXECUTE creates a new environment. That environment doesn't inherit all the baggage of the calling environment unless you redirect input, output, select lists etc. to and from the EXECUTE statement, e.g. EXECUTE Cmd, IN. stacked_data, OUT.

Re: [U2] [UD] LISTUSER output: phantom vs. iphantm

2012-09-14 Thread Brian Leach
iPhantoms are any background that perform interactive operations, such as opening a socket or device. They consume a licence. FWIH some time back a couple of naughty sites were buying small numbers of users and opening ttys directly with phantoms so IBM blocked that. Now it catches all of us who

[U2] UniVerse 11.1.9

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Leach
Hi Is anyone else experiencing performance problems with 11.1.9? I've just upgraded my laptop to 11.1.9 (Win7x64) and it's horribly slow, taking about 30 seconds to start any UniVerse process. This affects the initial uv.exe process, whether from cmd or telnet or UniObjects, and any

Re: [U2] UniVerse 11.1.9

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Leach
@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse 11.1.9 Universe has an internal file called errlog It's not a windows log, its generated by Universe errors. What's it say -Original Message- From: Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Sep

Re: [U2] UniVerse 11.1.9

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Leach
Brian, Just letting you know I've checked our system and no-one has logged anything along these lines for UV 11.1.9 Regards, Dan -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Tuesday, September 11

Re: [U2] UniVerse 11.1.9

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Leach
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:46 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] UniVerse 11.1.9 Hi Is anyone else experiencing performance problems with 11.1.9? I've just upgraded my laptop to 11.1.9 (Win7x64) and it's horribly slow, taking about 30

Re: [U2] [U2[UV] @TIME and TIME() not reliable

2012-09-10 Thread Brian Leach
Jacques @TIME doesn't give the current time anyway. It gives the time that whatever program or activity you're running started. So, for example, if you do a listing LIKE: LIST VOC EVAL @TIME EVAL TIME() And sit at the Press any Key .. point for a few seconds then continue, you'll see the

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-06 Thread Brian Leach
and -o to let you link it with the pid. Sent from my iPad On 6 Sep 2012, at 21:04, Robert Houben robert.hou...@fwic.net wrote: On Windows 7, netstat -help shows this: -fDisplays Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN) for foreign addresses. -Original

Re: [U2] U2 Bug reporting / list monitoring

2012-08-31 Thread Brian Leach
Will So I see no reason really why it cannot be done through *this* channel. Money. People pay for support. This list is free and potentially open to people who don't pay AMC or support. As David rightly says, this is not a Rocket Support Forum and we need to be mindful of that. That's been

Re: [U2] U2UG

2012-08-30 Thread Brian Leach
http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/u2ug.org -Original Message- From: Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wed, Aug 29, 2012 10:51 am Subject: Re: [U2] U2UG John Contact me off-list and I'll see if I can help. Brian

Re: [U2] U2UG

2012-08-29 Thread Brian Leach
John Contact me off-list and I'll see if I can help. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John R. Sent: 29 August 2012 16:12 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] U2UG What is the E-mail

Re: [U2] Variable Interpolation

2012-08-25 Thread Brian Leach
An EVAL statement equivalent would certainly be very useful for rules-based systems or any systems that use interpreters such as screen runners etc. that need to do complex validation based on soft coded rules, e.g. as part of a screen or table definition. Unfortunately it's not already baked into

Re: [U2] Mocking UniSession in .NET

2012-08-14 Thread Brian Leach
- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: 14 August 2012 01:29 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Mocking UniSession in .NET Brian Leach would it be better to construct a higher level wrapper for your

Re: [U2] [JOB] Opportunity for non-MV techie to learn MV in Atlanta, GA

2012-08-14 Thread Brian Leach
look at the age profile for most mv programmers and that should answer the question. This industry will die if we dont bring in a new generation behind us. Brian Sent from my iPad On 14 Aug 2012, at 20:24, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Changing title to JOB as jobs as not off topic.

Re: [U2] Mocking UniSession in .NET

2012-08-14 Thread Brian Leach
fake UniSession for unit testing purposes? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 4:56 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Mocking UniSession in .NET

Re: [U2] Mocking UniSession in .NET

2012-08-14 Thread Brian Leach
manipulations are highly optimised using various hidden pointers and hints. Brian Sent from my iPad On 14 Aug 2012, at 21:25, Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk wrote: Do you need to send an actual UniDynArray or the underlying data in a dynamic array format? IIIRC the UniSubroutine arguments

Re: [U2] Mocking UniSession in .NET

2012-08-13 Thread Brian Leach
would it be better to construct a higher level wrapper for your business functions and mock those? the UO libraries are quite low level: its a bit like mocking ado.net rather than your db calls. I expose all the business logic through server side subroutines, all using standardized calling

Re: [U2] cold start

2012-08-10 Thread Brian Leach
(changed the subject line) How does one automatically execute a login when the U2 dbms service starts? If you're after a way to fire off paragraphs etc. when booting under Windows .. I've written a little windows service application in C# to do this for UniVerse, should be easy to do an

Re: [U2] (no subject)

2012-07-28 Thread Brian Leach
Sounds like the printer is getting the job but doesn't understand what to do with it ..depending on the printer type it may need to use GDI calls. Try using SETPTR ,,AT myprintername,GDI Note; the first time you do a GDI print it takes forever to load the driver but after that it should be

Re: [U2] Array Types

2012-07-27 Thread Brian Leach
Here's a quick proggy I've scrudged together to get a rough indication - results on my system are: Dynamic Dimensioned Read/random access 18.4 14.2 Read only3.9 4.6 This is with small records: obviously with larger ones the gaps should widen.

Re: [U2] UV Triggers / SQL

2012-07-25 Thread Brian Leach
George Yes, you've been able to do that for some time. It simply adds a SICA block to the file and logs the trigger information in there. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: 24

Re: [U2] MySQL query qestion....

2012-07-19 Thread Brian Leach
George It depends on the db type. In SQL Server, for example, you would create a stored procedure that would capture the subquery result to a local variable and use that. e.g. DECLARE @lastUpdate DATETIME; SELECT @lastUpdate = some_expression ; select * from table where last_update @lastUpdate

Re: [U2] trimming a list (a test of your ability)

2012-07-13 Thread Brian Leach
Just a thought.. If it's THAT big, might be quicker to actually write to a sequential file if you're on an OS that maps /tmp to memory like Solaris can (version dependent?). But I ain't got a Solaris box to test that theory. Brian -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] RESIZE - dynamic files

2012-07-04 Thread Brian Leach
All the other groups effectively get 1 added to their number Not exactly. Sorry to those who already know this, but maybe it's time to go over linear hashing in theory .. Linear hashing was a system devised by Litwin and originally only for in-memory lists. In fact there's some good

Re: [U2] Running XLr8 Tools inside U2 DBTools new Eclipse release

2012-07-03 Thread Brian Leach
Sadly I *do* have to use Eclipse on OSX. It's the best way I've found so far to write fast iOS/Android apps (using Appcelerator Titanium). It's also ugly as sin. Grrr Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On

Re: [U2] UniVerse LIST statement question [not-secure]

2012-07-02 Thread Brian Leach
Mark Took me a couple of times reading through the post to understand the issue .. I think you're going to have to call a subroutine rather than use a LIST. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] UniVerse LIST statement question [not-secure]

2012-07-02 Thread Brian Leach
T No, that will remove any records that don't have a date in that range. Same using WHEN. He wants to keep those records (i.e. the other columns) but have that column blank. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] How to Upload data from my pc to my account

2012-07-02 Thread Brian Leach
Hi It depends on the type of data and what you want to do with it. You can create a directory file (type 19) on UniVerse (DIR on UniData) and simply copy files into there: each file will be visible as a separate record in the database, with each line of the record being a separate field. That's

Re: [U2] UV Unix File Recovery

2012-06-23 Thread Brian Leach
If you're on windows, take a look at Syncrify. It's essentially doing an rsync for Windows: I've been using it for a few months now on the client side and it's saved me a load of time for doing offsite backup to a hosted VM for peace of mind. Getting the first backup took me several nights(!)

Re: [U2] Runoff ?

2012-06-18 Thread Brian Leach
Z is a free full screen editor for UniVerse you can download from my website. And I'm just about to release version 2 of mvDeveloper (also free) into beta. (Why both? 'cos sometimes it's easier to just jump into an editor at TCL, depending on what I'm doing). Can't find my old Runoff clone

Re: [U2] Runoff ?

2012-06-18 Thread Brian Leach
For Charlie Noah You contacted me off-list about this post, but my reply to you bounced. I'm not ignoring you. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: 18 June 2012 08:39 To: 'U2

Re: [U2] Why did this compile??

2012-06-10 Thread Brian Leach
Out of curiosity, how many people avoid VARanything It's certainly one of the things that used to trip up students when I used to teach UniVerse. There was always at least one instance in any class when someone would hit it and wonder why their program compiled and was operating in the way that

Re: [U2] FW: Multivalue Question

2012-06-08 Thread Brian Leach
Unless they've secretly added it, that's always been UniVerse specific. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David Wolverton Sent: 07 June 2012 18:59 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] FW:

Re: [U2] Regarding : Usage of the SEL.CMD

2012-06-08 Thread Brian Leach
Or you can get your company to spring for a couple of Universe or Unidata licenses. I wouldn't pay for them out of my own pocket unless you have the couple grand to spare :) For personal educational purposes, you can just download the personal editions from the Rocket website. And if you

Re: [U2] My first uniObject application

2012-06-05 Thread Brian Leach
Well for a start you're using the Com version of UniObjects from .NET. Not the best combination - there is a .NET specific library for UniObjects. Make sure you have a reference to the correct uodotnet.dll, then visit the U2UG website and download a. the incubator pack. That has a C# client

Re: [U2] Delphi and UniObjects

2012-05-29 Thread Brian Leach
anyone know an easy way to distinguish if the uniobject session has been opened from Delphi or from VisualBasic? We will like to allow Delphi connection from our App, but avoid connection from VisualBasic. Regards -- Augusto 2012/5/23 Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk Yes, works fine. I use

Re: [U2] U2 Dynamic Object API

2012-05-28 Thread Brian Leach
I've been asking for JSON support for some time, this looks like a start but it would have been better to integrate it properly into the UniBasic language than hiding it behind a set of functions like the XDOM, Socket API etc: in this case that just makes it opaque, verbose and hides the

Re: [U2] matrix dimension

2012-05-24 Thread Brian Leach
One of the things I've asked for in the past has been alternate language runtimes, for example embedding JavaScript (e.g. Google V8 engine) into U2. Then you *could* have unlimited nesting .. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Delphi and UniObjects

2012-05-23 Thread Brian Leach
Yes, works fine. I use it for some of my products including mvDeveloper. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com Sent: 22 May 2012 22:00 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re:

Re: [U2] U2 accounting software question

2012-05-23 Thread Brian Leach
Have a word with Reflex Data (www.reflexdata.co.uk). They specialize in the textiles industry and their software runs on UniVerse. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Hester Sent: 22 May 2012

Re: [U2] SAVING UNIQUE ( multivalued)

2012-05-18 Thread Brian Leach
Another option, using UniVerse SQL to create the list: SELECT DISTINCT column_name TO SLIST 0 FROM UNNEST filename ON column_name [WHERE clause] For example: LIST rigtable005 GROUP_COL 01:46:32pm 18 May 2012 PAGE1 rigtable005 Group_col. 10 GROUP 2 GROUP 3

Re: [U2] training material on LOCKS

2012-05-11 Thread Brian Leach
Hi Charles I've suggested to Clif that I write this up as a Spectrum article.. if it hasn't been covered there recently already. It's not just MV programmers, I'd bet at least half of the SQL developers out there don't really understand how to gracefully handle optimistic locking conflicts.

Re: [U2] training material on LOCKS

2012-05-11 Thread Brian Leach
SQL server indeed has locking but that is usually only deployed to maintain state during a single transaction or stored procedure call. In fact SS differentiates between pessimistic and optimistic locking during data access operations and defaults to a pessimistic locking model in which readers

Re: [U2] training material on LOCKS

2012-05-09 Thread Brian Leach
Actually, Chapter 4 of the UniVerse Basic manual has quite a good treatment on them. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charles Stevenson Sent: 09 May 2012 14:45 To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2]

Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement

2012-04-29 Thread Brian Leach
Laura Bad girl. GOTO TheNaughtyStep :) Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Laura Hirsh Sent: 28 April 2012 04:23 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] The CONTINUE statement You are so right.

Re: [U2] Case Statement with only two cases

2012-04-20 Thread Brian Leach
Many years ago, MV developers were taught not to use CASE as on the old PICK machines they evaluated much (much) slower than the equivalent IFs - probably a bad compiler job. So you ended up with hideous nested IF statements that became practically unreadable. My personal preference has always

Re: [U2] Case Statement with only two cases

2012-04-20 Thread Brian Leach
14:28 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Case Statement with only two cases A respectful correction, Brian. On 4/20/2012 4:50 AM, Brian Leach wrote: it's all the same to the compiler. -Original Message- BEGIN CASE CASE A = TEST; GOSUB DO.SOMETHING CASE 1; GOSUB

Re: [U2] BETWEEN operator

2012-04-18 Thread Brian Leach
It's also inclusive in (UniVerse and every other) SQL. Of course, you could always write it as an external function for UniBasic, then it can be however you want. 'long as you document it.. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

[U2] Is this list alive?

2012-04-17 Thread Brian Leach
It's been remarkably quiet - perhaps everyone is in Denver for the U2U? Brian ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Is this list alive?

2012-04-17 Thread Brian Leach
-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:56 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: [U2] Is this list alive? It's been remarkably quiet - perhaps everyone is in Denver for the U2U? Brian

Re: [U2] Is this list alive?

2012-04-17 Thread Brian Leach
Very glad to hear it Bob. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Witney Sent: 17 April 2012 14:51 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Is this list alive? I just gave me a gentle poke Brian I am

Re: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch

2012-04-13 Thread Brian Leach
Or nicer to have a different name to COMMON e.g. SESSION /CLEAR_THIS/ SESSION_STUFF(SMALL) COMMON /KEEP_THIS/ COMMON_STUFF(BIG) Or something along those lines. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] u2ug.net Website

2012-04-04 Thread Brian Leach
Colin The u2ug.org web was redirecting to my old hosted provider, which I no longer use. The change to a new provider - with more capacity - is one step towards rewriting the site (finally), itself part of a very exciting set of proposals the board are putting together for the direction in

Re: [U2] Universe: IF statements in parargraphs don't work anymore

2012-04-04 Thread Brian Leach
Jeff is right in theory though you would need to be careful whenever you run an upgrade account. If you really want to secure the VOC you would also need to lock out all other forms of access such as UniObjects: you can easily create a little VBScript to connect through with this and

Re: [U2] Unable to unlink the operating system file BILLS.123

2012-04-04 Thread Brian Leach
Will it usually means something is holding it open, if you download the sysinternals tools (Google sysinternals) they can show you the processes holding a file open. From memory its the 'handle' command but check the docs. Sent from my iPad On 4 Apr 2012, at 19:15, Wjhonson

Re: [U2] u2ug.net Website

2012-04-04 Thread Brian Leach
Larry Thank you. Brian Sent from my iPad On 4 Apr 2012, at 19:34, Larry Hiscock lar...@wcs-corp.com wrote: In the meantime, I've added a rewrite rule to redirect www.u2ug.org to www.u2ug.net --Larry Larry Hiscock AngelicHost Western Computer Services -Original Message-

Re: [U2] u2ug.net Website

2012-04-03 Thread Brian Leach
sorry all, fixed now. brian Sent from my iPad On 3 Apr 2012, at 20:33, John Thompson jthompson...@gmail.com wrote: If you guys came to Spectrum, you would have less time to go on u2ug.net. I kid of course... I can't get to it either. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Robert Porter

Re: [U2] Job at Rocket in Denver

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Leach
Anyone have an idea why? Perhaps they need a long retirement to count their gold... -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 28 March 2012 17:03 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2]

Re: [U2] New U2 BDT

2012-03-14 Thread Brian Leach
Or the new Raspberry Pi. (www.raspberrypi.org) Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 13 March 2012 22:31 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] New U2 BDT Maybe some

Re: [U2] New U2 BDT

2012-03-13 Thread Brian Leach
I use Eclipse on my Mac to do iPhone/iPad development. (you can't deploy native iPhone apps without a Mac) And it's just as ugly on there - though strangely it's the only thing that runs quicker on the Mac than on my (identically spec'ed but *ever* so much faster) Windows 7 Vaio. I'm sure Doug

Re: [U2] Calling U2UG Members

2012-03-09 Thread Brian Leach
Dan Absolutely you should vote..! The U2UG is best served through its relationship with Rocket, so there is nothing to prevent members from Rocket from voting, standing or otherwise contributing. In fact, the more the merrier. (We do have Rocket U2UG members - though many haven't updated their

[U2] Calling U2UG Members

2012-03-07 Thread Brian Leach
All, To those of you who are U2UG members (and if not, why not?) - a reminder that the elections for the 2012-13 board are under way. If you didn't receive an email about this, please (please) check your profile on the website - I've had a lot of bounces because email addresses are out of

Re: [U2] keeping track of opened files

2012-03-06 Thread Brian Leach
The nearest is to execute PORT.STATUS PORT nn FILEMAP Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Ed Clark Sent: 05 March 2012 22:27 To: dgr...@dagconsulting.com; U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] keeping

Re: [U2] uvrestore - Unable to create or attach the Printer Segment

2012-02-28 Thread Brian Leach
Just a thought - you've changed the uv directory, has your path environment variable changed to the new \u2\uv\bin ? Could it be trying to run the old binaries? Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] [AD] Webinar: U2 RESTful Web Services

2012-02-28 Thread Brian Leach
Dan, Thank you! Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Daniel McGrath Sent: 28 February 2012 15:36 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] [AD] Webinar: U2 RESTful Web Services As promised, the webinar

Re: [U2] Multi-value explode in AE

2012-02-25 Thread Brian Leach
Wow - Doug hasn't chipped in yet grin So I'll get in first .. Ha ha... [ad] mvDeveloper has a tabular data view that renders multivalued data as a grid, very useful for editing that 197th set of associated dates and values.. It doesn't extend to sub values, but hey, what do you expect for

Re: [U2] mvToolbox--digression about why anyone would want telnet-based tools - dictionaries

2012-02-19 Thread Brian Leach
I have a simple program that builds them from a script. THat way the scripts form part of the system definition and get version managed like the rest .. As far as I'm concerned dictionaries should be treated like source code. Brian Sent from my iPad On 18 Feb 2012, at 21:53, Boydell, Stuart

Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command

2012-02-15 Thread Brian Leach
I guess the thing is, people just don't learn Windows any more. Because it's so ubiquitous, and so 'just there', they tend to forget (or never learn) that there's a lot of good stuff going on underneath.. I'm just as bad: until recently I'd never used symlinks on Windows (as I've done for years

Re: [U2] Including Code - A Best Practice?

2012-02-10 Thread Brian Leach
Late to this, but I use includes with code in two situations: 1. As standard library pieces managed through a pre-compiler, usually for platform-dependent sections. For example, I have standard includes for getting command line arguments, reading and writing from ini files and so forth. The

Re: [U2] Including Code - A Best Practice?

2012-02-08 Thread Brian Leach
Required for UniData not UniVerse. Brian Sent from my iPad On 8 Feb 2012, at 17:27, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: What compile arguments? I just checked the help pages for both BASIC and RAID and don't see anything about including the INCLUDE code so the debugger can use it.

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Brian Leach
IIRC didn't VMARK buy CompuSheet, at around the same time they bought JET? It's probably lying around on and old QIC somewhere.. I'd just written a JET and Ultiword emulator for UniVerse when they popped up with JET. Grr.. but a long time ago. And back to topic I second the use Tony's tools

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Brian Leach
- From: Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 9:43 am Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File IIRC didn't VMARK buy CompuSheet, at around the same time they bought JET? t's probably lying around on and old QIC somewhere.. I'd

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Brian Leach
Bet you had ones AND zeros .. We couldn't afford the ones ... Brian Sent from my iPad On 7 Feb 2012, at 18:08, George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.com wrote: Why back in our day, the bits traveled at 110 baud, and simplex too. -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] UniVerse Import XML data [not-secure]

2012-01-28 Thread Brian Leach
Symeon is right; the various XML tools in U2 are actually pretty good and the DOM parser is entirely written to standards. The real problem is that the documentation for them is frankly terrible and there is no good overview on which tools should be used in which circumstances. Hmm, sounds like

Re: [U2] SQL Select and order by

2012-01-25 Thread Brian Leach
Not a direct answer but another option is to use the sqlexecdirect statement and column binding -that is how it is intended to be used. Off the top of my head so may be slightly inaccurate: Dim cols(number) Ok = sqlexecdirect(@hstmt, 'select blah from foo'); For I = 1 to number Ok =

Re: [U2] IBMU2.UODOTNET

2012-01-06 Thread Brian Leach
Daniel I read this then suddenly got confused - Imports UNIOBJECTSLib? uvSession.Subroutine()? Not Imports IBMU2.UODOTNET? uvSession.CreateUniSubroutine()? It rather sounds as though you've imported the COM version of UniObjects, not the UO.NET assembly. Which would explain why you can't

Re: [U2] MS-SQL Question

2011-12-29 Thread Brian Leach
George This is way too heavy for a one-off, but if you're going to be doing this kind of manipulation often and you have the necessary privileges you might want to look at adding some CLR functions to make life easier. Here's a nice example of how to do that:

Re: [U2] Is SB+ object-oriented?

2011-12-13 Thread Brian Leach
And FWIW my new dev environment, on general release early next year, uses a client side language modelled on UniVerse Basic but with component and event oriented features... Hideously contrived example follows - * get the author id from a selection dialog Author = This.AUTHOR.Text If Author =

Re: [U2] Is SB+ object-oriented?

2011-12-13 Thread Brian Leach
? -Original Message- From: Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tue, Dec 13, 2011 7:35 am Subject: Re: [U2] Is SB+ object-oriented? And FWIW my new dev environment, on general release early next year, uses a lient side language

Re: [U2] Code Collaboration

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Leach
Mecki Thats why the board launched the Incubator project early this year. The intent is for this to become a repository of useful working examples of using the technology. But I don't have the time to write those all myself and we have been trying to pursuade the community to get involved.

Re: [U2] Dynamic Connect TimeOut

2011-11-16 Thread Brian Leach
Mecki In mvDeveloper, under Account Settings have you checked 'send keep-alives'? Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Mecki Foerthmann Sent: 16 November 2011 17:06 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Avoiding deadly embraces

2011-10-26 Thread Brian Leach
Will - you couldn't be more wrong in your last paragraph. FWIW Knowing Asvin and the systems he works on I can tell you they are anything but simple - highly complex rules handling many hundreds of concurrent processes and millions of transactions per day... in fact right at the other end of

Re: [U2] The math just doesn't work.

2011-09-29 Thread Brian Leach
And just to add to Martin's excellent answer - the normal workround for any computer system is to use integral values, scaling and descaling as required. In case you think this is a U2 specific limitation, here's the same in C# as a console app - namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class

Re: [U2] Start job on Universe boot under Windows

2011-09-14 Thread Brian Leach
In Windows you don't have the 'rc' style entry points - it's all started as services. You can use the Windows task scheduler to run a command on start-up, but it needs to know that the UniVerse service has started successfully before it kicks in. So there are two options: 1. Use the task

Re: [U2] PC based UniBasic program editor for 64 bit OS

2011-09-02 Thread Brian Leach
. Will -Original Message- From: Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 6:09 am Subject: Re: [U2] PC based UniBasic program editor for 64 bit OS Let alone one, whose sole purpose for us (U2) is to highlight code. Well a good program editor

Re: [U2] PC based UniBasic program editor for 64 bit OS

2011-09-01 Thread Brian Leach
Let alone one, whose sole purpose for us (U2) is to highlight code. Well a good program editor - like mvDeveloper (grin) or Doug's U2 Editor - does a lot more than just highlight. It's about ease of navigation and assisting developers to work faster and more efficiently. Doug and I have taken

Re: [U2] Universe 11.1.1 on Windows - logon delay fixed for WAN installations

2011-08-30 Thread Brian Leach
Troy That's great, it's been a real problem for a couple of my old customers. Thanks for feeding this back. May I cross-post this to the LinkedIn group also? Thanks Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On

Re: [U2] Using SSL, with .Net to make a connection to Linux/Unix

2011-08-02 Thread Brian Leach
, is that *nix provides telnet and Windows does not. Tom -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 6:34 PM To: John Thompson; u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2

Re: [U2] Why Pick Eclipse?

2011-08-02 Thread Brian Leach
Aptana is now owned by Appcelerator as part of their Titanium platform. If you're wanting to use that for Droid work email me off-list: I got so fed up trying to get Titanium and Android to play nicely (and their forums are full of people with the same problems) that one I got it all working I

Re: [U2] Using SSL, with .Net to make a connection to Linux/Unix

2011-07-30 Thread Brian Leach
Tom I don't know what '.NET TELNET tool' you refer to - but I wrote a customized terminal emulator in .NET for a client that makes a connection Telnet/SSL connection to UniVerse on Solaris and tested fine on Linux. For the server configuration and details on setting up the secure telnet daemon

Re: [U2] Joins Vorks

2011-07-27 Thread Brian Leach
54232.1935 2-02859-13 2. CF is a built on J2EE. Thus, ColdFusion with UniObjects for Java and JDBC should be workable. 3. Back to the salt mines... --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent

Re: [U2] What - No Joins?

2011-07-26 Thread Brian Leach
Bill I don't know ColdFusion, so I don't know how you're connecting CF to Universe or what CF is doing - but UniVerse SQL *definitely* supports joins. And if you can't get CF to build it, if you can get it to call stored procedures you can also lovingly hand craft your UniVerse SQL grin and

Re: [U2] Document Management

2011-07-22 Thread Brian Leach
Actually, Wol's right: the filestream option in SQL Server is just an entry point into the regular Windows file system, so in effect it's no different from using a type 19 directory. Brian ** The filestream option in sql server is designed specifically for this task. But how does it manage

Re: [U2] Why Pick U2 ?

2011-07-14 Thread Brian Leach
I've missed this discussion because I've been busy designing a website and app for a client. This being the real world, the site will eventually - of course - be delivered using SQL Server and C#, with the front end using AJAX calls to JSON services delivered through WCF. Which will no doubt take

Re: [U2] Why Pick U2 ?

2011-07-14 Thread Brian Leach
Bill That's weird, it's up and I can see it (Chrome, FF, IE) Looks crap, but that's the old cobblers shoes story .. one day I'll get time to rewrite it.grin Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] Question about updating customer's systems...

2011-06-19 Thread Brian Leach
Tom Consider having a virtualized test system so that in the event of the install being rejected - unlikely I know grin - they can quickly revert to a stored image of how the test system was prior to update to ensure that the next attempt is a true clean point from the failed installation. That's

Re: [U2] Interesting article (pro mobile web) vs mobile app - relating to previous discussion

2011-06-19 Thread Brian Leach
Good article though it's also missed out the most popular toolkits: Appcelerator Titanium (webkit based) Adobe Air (webkit based) Unify (webkit AND adobe air based) .. hmm, think a pattern is emerging here .. Though it does mention PhoneGap which is - guess what - webkit based. It's been clear

Re: [U2] Installing UniObjects on Windows 2008 64 bit

2011-06-14 Thread Brian Leach
sounds like a UAC error. An installer can request elevated UAC permission - which is not the same as running as administrator. Turn off UAC in your control panel and try again... Brian Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad ___ U2-Users mailing list

Re: [U2] [UV] Emulate SQL MAX() function at TCL

2011-05-27 Thread Brian Leach
Stuart You're stuck with something like that, unless you know that all the possible ids are present in the file. If so, you could use a form of binary search pattern could find it quickly. i.e. start with a likely number and see if the id is there. (filesize / recordsize) If it is, double it.

Re: [U2] uv v ud

2011-05-06 Thread Brian Leach
Bill Four things architecturally have helped me when using UO - the first couple may be too late but the fourth may be useful: 1. I only use UO to call subroutines. These have a common calling interface so there is a single dispatch point in the client where I can add logging and a despatch

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