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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 September 2005]Hello,Is if possible to "hide" a large combo box so that only the "down arrow" button appears on the screen until you click it, then the combo box will be displayed. I know you can do this in Foxpro.Thanks!

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 29 September 2005]We are running into a situation where a record write that returns a duplicate key status then returns a record lock status on an attempted rewrite. i.e.PERFORM RECORD-WRITE.IF FILE-STATUS = DUPLICATE-KEY PERFORM RECORD-REWRITE.The rewrite attempt returns a "99" status.The environment is a LINUX server, thin client, wireless Windows XP workstations.Has anyone experienced similar?Vins Nash

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 03 October 2005]I want to change the background and foreground colors of entry-fields, labels etc...Using W$PALETTE, I get values in WPAL-RED WPAL-GREEN WPAL-BLUE.How do one have to code these values to change f.i. the background of an entry-field ?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 03 October 2005]Hello everyone, I've an AcuRcl installed on a W2003 server: service is started as Administrator user and local user is still Administrator. I noticed that if I try to access to a mapped drive (for ex. c:\\myfolder is a shared recource and is mapped on the local server a z: drive) runtime can't be able to access that folder as the mapped drive but only via UNc path. I think it's due to what si described here:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;180362Is ther a way to workaround it?TIA, Giovanni

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 September 2005]Does anyone know if there is a way to continuously display the time on a screen.I have a data input screen that has a date-entry field with a display format of time. The time is updated when the screen is refreshed but I'd like it to update and display the time continously - like it does on my Windows screen.I'm using the Inquire function to get the time from the system. But I allow the user to update it manually when necessary.I'm using Thin Client to connect Windows PCs running XP to an HP/UX box.Thanks in advance,JC

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 03 February 2005]I wonder if anyone successfully tried calling the runtime dll from delphi code?I am trying, but my parameters never seem to get passed along to the cobol program.I defined the 'acucall' procedure like this in delphi : function AcuCall( Name: string; var arg0: Variant; var arg1: Variant; var arg2: Variant; var arg3: Variant; var arg4: Variant; var arg5: Variant; var arg6: Variant; var arg7: Variant; var arg8: Variant; var arg9: Variant; var arg10: Variant; var arg11: Variant; var arg12: Variant; var arg13: Variant ): integer ; stdcall; external 'wrun32.dll';then i fill in some values in a form, initialize the rts and call AcuCall like this: param1:='00100000XXXXX'; resultat:=AcuCall('my_prog.acu', param1, { noparam, is a null variant } nopar

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 26 September 2005]Hi,Our client, not this one managing to use the Vutil of a server Linux for another server Linux through the NFS, it receives an error message: UNKNOWN ERROR. It asks: is it possible when the Vutil is using to access an archive of data that is in another machine Linux through the NFS??Sorry, I dont write English very well...:D Thanks.Good bye.Fl?vio.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 September 2005]Hi,We have been having problems when trying to print from a AcuCobol application to a USB printer - does not matter which brand or model, and some other various printers. The print queue will display "sent to printer" but the document will not print. then if we try a second time the document prints.We are just using the standard call for win$print. is there an issue with printing to usb printers, is there anything else we can do or try?We are using version 5.2.1.1 of the runtimeThanksKristopher Ellery

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 13 September 2005]An OCX-control has the following Method declared in the def-file :      * PreTare               METHOD, 18, @PreTare,                   "double" @NewTareValue, TYPE 5,                   "unsigned char" @NewTareUnit, TYPE 17,                   "short*" @ScaleStatus, TYPE 16386                       RETURNING "boolean", TYPE 11Working-Storage :       77 SA-BOOLEAN       PIC S9.       77 WTARRA           PIC ---,-.       77 SA-NEWTAREVALUE  USAGE IS DOUBLE.       77 SA-NEWTAREUNIT   

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 19 August 2005]From time to time, there has been requests for how to get the ip address, how to get mac address etc. Here is an example that provide all the information there is about network adapters on your system.Just compile and run, no switches, no bells and whistles. It will display a message box with info for each of the network adapters (hardware as software) that are present on the system.This has been tested and works like a champ with 7.0.0, no warrants for former versions (or later for that matter).

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 13 September 2005]Hello,I've a question about grid'sWe work with a grid and want some insert and delete options.When we're in the first column of the grid we want the next action:Delete button deletes a rowInsert button inserts a new rowWhen we're in another column delete and insert must work as normal.Does someone know how to realize this?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 13 September 2005]In the last few days with the help of several forum participants, I have tried to perfect my code to be able to call a crystl report from within an acucobol program. Using the com method I get the following: Server has not yet been opened". I decided to go back to the active-x method which has worked in the past. With the active-x method I get "Cannot open SQL Server: The active-x method is working on an older machine running Windows 98, vers 5.2 of the runtime and acuodbc. On my current machine I am running vers 6.2 of acugt and 6.0 of acuodbc, windows xp. I am using vers 8.5 of Crystal on both. I feel I must have somthing wrong in my set-up on the new machine, but can't seem to come up with anything, Any ideas?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 08 September 2005]Hello,In my project settings, comment lines are dark green in color.Is it possible to change an individual comment line to a different color, such as red, to be more noticeable?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 05 September 2005]Hi everybody.I?m trying to use the AcuGT Automation server from both visual basic and Acucobol itself.When used from VB there is no problem at all, but if I try to invoke the initialize method from Acucobol I get a "Memory Access Violation Message.The DEF file was created with Acucobol v7.0.0. Basically the code is as follows:...01 H-UACUGT    HANDLE OF @AcuGT....01  W-PARAMS   PIC X(30) VALUE "-y u.lib -c config.ini".01  H-PARAMS    HANDLE OF VARIANT....CREATE @AcuGT HANDLE IN H-UACUGT.CALL "C$SETVARIANT" USING W-PARAMS H-PARAMS.[B]MODIFY H-UACUGT @Initialize(BY NAME @cmdLine H-PARAMS).[/B]... I get the error when executing the MODIFY verb.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 09 September 2005]I have to write software to catch the weight of a weighscale. In the software of the weighscale, there are 3 files delivered....OCX - ...IDL - ...TLB.Since I don't have any knowledge of Visual Basic or C; I think these IDL & TLB files are to be used by these languages or not ?Otherwise, does these files mean anything to AcuCobol and what do I have to do with them ?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 05 September 2005]I have created a web page A on site A to enter inquiry information. After clicking the send-button, a cgi-script is started on server B which starts a cobol program on server B. This program collects the information. The information should be presented on a page on site C.This all worked well in a prototype environment on my Windows development machine. Now I installed the several components on the servers and communication is going through the Internet, I get an output form in which the %%variables are visible, but no inquiry data.I reread the documentation several times, did some tracing to a log file and searched on the Acucorp website and forum, but I still have not solved it. The inquiry of data seems to succeed, the cgi variables are filled with data, but they do not show up on the web page.Any ideas or suggestions??Thanks in advance,Ren

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 July 2005]I would very much like to have control over more events in the windows runtime. For windows and controls, for instance, notification of rendering type events like paint, repaint, etc. Also when a window is activated, deactivated, etc. If you look at the events available to Win API wrapped controls in VB and in .NET it is much more extensive than acucobol-gt.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 14 March 2005]Some have asked about drawing a vertical gradient and stretching a background image on a window, so I attempted it this weekend using the Windows API to see if it was possible.The answer: Yes and No.Yes, the gradient can be drawn and yes the stretched background image can be drawn, however, they will be erased when the runtime has to redraw the window. For instance when minimizing the window and then redisplaying it. The problem is we don't have access to the window events that will allow us to redraw the gradient and background image. To do this we would have to get a pointer to the windows old process handler, assign a new process handler, run the old handler from within the new handler first then run some redraw code. This would probably have to be done in C and linked into the runtime. Not straightforward to say the least.If I'm wrong and there is an easiar way, please tell me. That would be great!My thoug

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 06 September 2005]I am using AcuBench to design a screen I have a entry field on it coded as secure so they can enter a password. Is there any way that if a certain user is logged on they can see what is in that password field. I have tried to do a modify fieldname secure is false. That doesn't work. Can't seem to hit the right option.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 06 September 2005]On a whim I entered a picture clause of 99-99-99 because I was looking for an edited entry for a European style date. The Screen Painter allows that in both the Format Picture and the Variable Picture properties without error. Unless I was dreaming I was convinced last week that this was working as intended. Users could enter 090205 and the field did edit itself as 09-02-05. It no longer works that way but shows 00 090205. Is there a way to use the dash this way?Vins Nash

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 05 September 2005]Hello,I lilke to send email with my Acucobol application.I downloaded msemail.zip from http://www.acucurp.com (sample programs). I opened the project in Acubench. Generating and compiling of the program are all withour errors, but when I execute the program I get the following error message:Class Not Registered.How can I solve this problem.(ps I tried already to register msmapi32.ocx, it succeeded, but did not solve the problem)

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 26 August 2005]How do I get the cursor to move from one field in a frame to a field in another frame?If I use:MOVE 4 TO ACCEPT-CONTROLMOVE 20 TO CONTROL-ID... where 20 is in another frame, then the cursor acts as though it can't find it and moves to the next field either within that frame or on the base screen.:confused:

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 31 August 2005]Is there a way to limit the number of time a client is able to connect to a particular instance of acurcl? I would like to be able to stop users from starting multpile instances of our app on their client machine.Thanks,JD

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 10 August 2005]Hi,A customer recently found that keys conatining some special Swedish characters does not get "sorted" correctly when written to an indexed file.I played around with the COLLATING SEQUENCE is statement of the SELECT clause and that works just fine. One thing though. It seems that the collating sequence is written into the files header when the file is created. Thus one can't just add a COLLATING SEQUENCE to an existing indexed file. Even though this does not render an error message, the file is behaving as it was before.What is the easiest way to change the collating sequence? 1, Create a new file and read all the the records from the old file and write them to the new one?2, Convert in some other way with Acu utility?Reason I ask is that the system contains about 100 indexed files and I need to provide a secure way of doing this without having to be there myself.best regards,Hans Jivesten

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 25 August 2005]DISPLAY ENTRY-FIELD, 3-D NO-BOX UPPER CURSOR 1 LINE FIELD-LINE (FIELD-NUM) POSITION FIELD-POSITION(FIELD-NUM) SIZE FIELD-VISIBLE (FIELD-NUM) LINES .9 NO-AUTOSEL MAX-TEXT FIELD-LONGUEUR (FIELD-NUM) HANDLE IS FIELD-HANDLE-STD MODIFY FIELD-HANDLE-STD VALUE FIELD ACCEPT FIELD-HANDLE-STD VALUE FIELD ON EXCEPTION CTRL-KEY CONTINUE END-ACCEPTI am using this accept and i want to overide the content of the entry field i try to push the insert buttom and the entry it is still with the insert mode