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The new WEB-BROWSER2 control works different from the old control. Before I could drag a file onto the control and I would get the MSG-WB-NAVIGATE-COMPLETE event and with that I had the filename. Is there a way this could work again or does anyone now a work around?#web-browser#extend

I am required to check whether Webview2 runtime is installed on the system. Is any utility available with AcuCobol 10.5.1 to check this, Or am I required to create a DLL to accomplish the task? Please advise. Thanks, Aji Cherian

Using thin client runtime 10.51 for Linux.  If I create a WebView2 browser control in our application, then call another program which creates an activex control, I get a memory access violation.   Windows (not thin client) does not have this problem.

Hullo all. I hope the collective intelligence of the community can help guide us here. We have a large-ish program written & running under AcuGT (Extend) for Windows. It has a Windows UI. It is a real-time transaction processing engine with a UI to monitor and control the activity. So it runs in 2+ threads but its a single program. We want to split this into two programs: A transaction processing engine that runs as a Windows Service, so it launches on boot and is always running. No UI at all. A UI that interacts with the above program. Ideally we would just take the existing code - the current UI thread - and make minimal changes to it, so it will still be an AcuGT/Extend program. But users could launch/run it using AcuToWeb. We want to put minimal effort into this, as it does not extend the functionality of our product, it just solves some security + remote-access issues. It should not be too hard to simply split this one program (currently implemented as two threads) into

Hi, II have configured two systems; the first system has run time folder as swrun.16 and the second system has swrun.17. I want to install/register some components into the run time folder programatically.Could you please suggest a way how to dynamically determine the Runtime directory? Thanks, Aji Cherian

Hi all. We will be interacting with electronic labels, and the API is a bunch of restful web services, so we'll be using the RMNET routines.  I know the C$SOCKET functions are not "thread safe" because if you wait for a response, all threads will block (my manual tells me so!) but I was wondering about the RMNET routines.  Do they have the same limitation or can I launch a thread to do the API transaction, while the main function continues on?  The manual doesn't mention either way.

Buongiorno , ho necessita' di contare il numero di caratteri di una stringa,rispetto all'ultimo carattere valido contenuto in essa. Data la variabile WS-DESTINATARIO dichiarata PIC X(30) che contiene il valore "COLOR EXPERT                   "quindi 12 caratteri complessivi compreso lo spazio fra COLOR e EXPERT. 1) Utilizzando l'istruzione INSPECT WS-DESTINATARIO TALLYING CONTA-CAMPO FOR CHARACTERS ottengo nella variabile CONTA-CAMPO non il numero dei caratteri contenuti nella stringa che sono 12 ma 30 che e' la lunghezza complessiva del campo. Non trovo il modo, nella sintassi del comando, di ottenere il valore 12. 2) -Se utiizzoINSPECT WS-DESTINATARIO TALLYING CONTA-CAMPO FOR CHARACTERS BEFORE SPACE ottengo il valore 5 ovvero conta i caratteri sino al primo spazio ( puo' andare bene solo su valori contigui di contenuto di campo) 3) -Solo se utilizzo l'istruzione INSPECT WS-DESTINATARIO TALLYING CONT

Hi Everyone, I've got a client that just started using AcuToWeb with version 10.4.1 (it was the latest version when I developed the current version of my software) and we're running into some visual/UI problems.  Originally, without any scroll bars, if the browser window wasn't large enough to show the window, it was just cut off.  I added a CSS file for a custom Theme with the only change being I added an html/body style that sets "overflow: auto". That gave me the browser scroll bars back, but the AcuToWeb "virtual" application window still seems to think that the rest of the browser canvas is inaccessible.  Is there any way to change the SCREEN settings/variables so that it's understood that the virtual canvas is unlimited and that the browser should handle all of the scrolling, not the application windows?  It's doing things like making the status bar huge, so that it's visible on the screen by default, but if you scro

Is it possible to show a quick-info when hovering over a bitmap that is shown in a standard grid ?

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Hi, We currently upgraded AcuCobol 10.5 to 10.5.1. We are using NPOI to create .xlsx files (Spreadsheets) through a .dll. For run time 10.5, this feature was functioning perfectly. However, after the upgrade to 10.5.1, the .xlsx is not getting generated. The following lines in .dll is saving the .xlsx. using (FileStream fileSave = new FileStream(xlsFilename, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)) { workbook.Write(fileSave); fileSave.Flush(); } It seems to me that the workbook.write has failed. However, no exceptions were displayed. We tried running the program in administrator mode too. It looks to me like some configuration changes need to be done.Could you please help me with this issue. Thanks, Aji Cherian

Got a new HP Envy Laptop that I can not figure out waht key combinations to get the BREAK Key for debugging. My old Elitebook was just use the FN + R to send the break key. I talked to HP and they could not answer me unless I went to Level 2 support with a charge. So, does anyone know if I can remap a key somehow via a 2019 server to send a break key. Or can I change the debug somehow to use a different key combination. Any advice would be helpfull As i will try it.

Got a new HP Envy Laptop that I can not figure out waht key combinations to get the BREAK Key for debugging. My old Elitebook was just use the FN + R to send the break key. I talked to HP and they could not answer me unless I went to Level 2 support with a charge. So, does anyone know if I can remap a key somehow via a 2019 server to send a break key. Or can I change the debug somehow to use a different key combination. Any advice would be helpfull As i will try it.

Hi, we use level 78 constants to keep our data consistent e.g. LENGTH-PATH, LENGTH-CITY etc. So in the WORKING STORAGE SECTION we only need 03 CUST-CITY PIC X(LENGTH-CITY). The problem is that we want to use these also in the FILE SECTION. But our source only compiles correctly if the first statement of the FILE SECTION is an FD. Do you have an idea how to solve this issue ?

Hello Micro Focus Community, I'm encountering difficulties when attempting to use transactions with AcuCOBOL-GT 10.4. Initially, I noticed that version 10 includes, by default, the RMFM file system, which, according to a community post, doesn't support transactions. I reverted to a previous version, and the errors ceased. However, when performing a ROLLBACK, the information is committed, and the reversal is not carried out as expected. Below is a simplified example of my code: START TRANSACTION.SET WF-OK TO TRUE.PERFORM REGISTER-INFOIF WF-OK COMMITELSE ROLLBACKEND-IF. The code above involves processing various records, each handled by different paragraphs (REGISTER-CLIENT, REGISTER-PRODUCTS, etc.). Upon executing ROLLBACK, the information is not rolled back as anticipated. Any suggestions on how to approach this issue? Has anyone faced a similar situation with AcuCOBOL-GT 10.4 or has insights on configuring transactions correctly in this version? I appreciate any help or guidance you

I'm using 10.5.0 thin client on Windows 11 and it comes up with Memory Access Violation when I run Shell32.dll to display a PDF file.    When I use thick client, there are no problems, or if I drop the @[Display] and run this in thin client - then comes up with authorisation issues.

My customer has a device that only communicates via COM ports...how does Acu-COBOL Extend handle this?  And it doesn't have to be with the API if a better way is available.#AcuCobol#COBOL

We have been running the same software for several years using AcuCOBOL runtime 10.2 on a Windows network with an Oracle database. Everything is fine without error and then randomly we get an error that gives very little information.  Just a message that says "ProgramName: Not a COBOL Program".  Any idea what would case this? 

Hi, I have an entry field that I want the user to type in what they are looking for, in this case, a customer name. I want the program to receive each letter as it is typed. Right now, I can get the previous letter as it is typed from the event, but I need the current letter. For example, when the user types "G" in the field, the event-proc returns to the field variable blank, then when the user types in the next letter, "Gi" being what is in the entry field now, the event-proc returns the "G". I need to have to return the one being type at the time, not a lag as it does now. Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks, Kevin #AcuCobol#entry-field

I had a customer who used Acu4GL for SYBASE with the old version for a long time, but sometimes the application got MAV error. Because the older veriosn was just for 32-bit Windows, and the customer is using the current Windows platforms which almost are Windows x64, we apply an evaluation of version 10.5 to test for the newer Windows x64 platforms. According the content in the document, Acu4GL for SYBASE can use  the 32-bit libraries with a 64-bit runtime and 32-bit Acu4GL for Sybase. So we just installed the 64-bit version which included runtime  and Acu4GL for SYBASE 32-bit (can choose from the product selections). But after some initial procedures working(like new stored procedures creation), we found the application seemed didn't direct the file I/O through Acu4GL for SYBASE(no SQL statements in the log file) and just got file error 35. Does anyone know how to set up the Winodws environment for v10.5 x64 version to let Acu4GL for SYBASE work? SYBASE was 12.5 and the

Hi, I created a DLL for our AcuCobol program. In our system, we have folders like1. swrun\\acucorp\\bin2. swrun\\activex The DLL works only when the DLL is placed and registered in swrun\\acucorp\\bin.What do I need to have to do to work the DLL from swrun\\activex folder? Please advise. Thanks, Aji Cherian

i'm using 10.0.1 runtime on windows platform and basic pattern matching seems to work fine but if I try something that uses the logical OR operator (|) it fails to match.  For example, this expression works (matches on "test 2, test1"):  test2.*test1 This one doesn't find any matches (should at least match the above example):  test1|test2 My runtime-exp-flg is set to 1 to ignore case which works on the first example.  I have also tried 0, 3,5, 11. I realize part of the challenge is my regex skills but if anyone has good example of it working or suggestions, I would appreciate it.  #extend#AcuCobol

Is there any documentation, or does anyone have experience in executing ACUCOBOL programs on a Windows PC set up as a virtual machine under AZURE. What steps or changes to the config file, if any are needed. Or is it even possible ?#VirtualWindowsPC#Azure

Hello, i try to read user information from the ActiveDirectory with OleDB. Most work already. But currently i have problems to get the Data when the User Password will expire. The Data is saved in an integer8 field but i don't get the expected value in my code here. in  @fields::@item("msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed")::valuein hlp-test4I should receive for my user for example the value: 133494369554492556But i get only 7624I tried several things.Cause it is an integer8 value it should be declared as s9(18) comp-5 but here is also the value 7624.Has anyone an idea how to get here the correct value? Or what 7624 is, that i can work with this value?Regards David Neidinger #AcuCobol

We've written a .net browser control that should provide the functionality we need post active-x (webbrowser2 is inadequate for our needs).  The issue we are having is with capturing events.  Could someone explain how to capture the .net control events in our COBOL program?  I know this has been asked before, but I do not see a resolution.  The dll has been registered and is in the run directory, and netdefgen has generated the def file.  We can display the control.  What's missing is the communication of events back to the COBOL program.  We are using the 10.5 runtime.