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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 April 2006]I would like that, if controls are grouped in a frame, you could write DISPLAY FRAME instead of DISPLAY FORM.If you use DISPLAY FORM, a grid will display with its original size, no matter if the column widths has been changed.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 May 2006]Hi,we need to resize the push-button with a bitmap depending on the cell size. In effect during the design of a screen we use a particular cell size for all controls, but in our application this value is changed depending on the screen resolution (we have 3 kind of resolution 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024).The problem is that the push buttons with bitmap didn't resize automatically (for all the other controls all is OK).Can you help us.Thank's a lot.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 03 May 2006]Many of our report programs utilize the internal sort routine in AcuGT. Our application utilizes AcuThin connected to a AIX or LINUX server. The programs are started from a main menu program and each runs in its own window which is modeless. If a user starts two programs and each requires an internal sort, the second program will fail as AcuGT currently only supports one sort per runtime.Does anyone else see this as a severe limitation to the applications they create in AcuGT?Does anyone have suggestions as to how to get around this limitation?We have considered starting a second runtime from within the application but that means potentially doubling the number of user licenses. We are currently looking at 7.2 AcuSort capabilities and/or CoSort.

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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 14 April 2006]Does anybody know how I can display an entryfield in a report over multiple lines. I can use the property collapse en make the field big enough, but then I have a lot of blank lines in my report. In other generators there are property settings for this.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 05 March 2006]We use Acubench 7.0Most of our forms have grids on them. After creating a form, I read the registry to set the width of each column in the grid.This works fine, however. In the source-code, I use alot of DISPLAY FORM statements, so the column widths changes back to the original state of design.Maybe a request can be made to make the DISPLAY property of the Column Description in the Column's Setting to be variable.For now is't not variable. How can I work around this problem, not creating the grids programmaticly ?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 01 March 2006]can I select part of contents in entry-field control in before procedure program?example: 12/11/2005. I want select the number 12thanks !

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 07 March 2006]I created an application using acubench in which a report reads from two data files, opens a print preview pane and then allows the report to be printed from the preview pane. It works fine in the development IDE but when it is deployed using acuthin the datafile for the grid is not read and the grid is not written to. The preview pane opens with a generic web browser error page stating the "page is unavailable. The web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adust your browser settings." When I go to the program files however and open the report's .html file, the program has read and written the data to the main part of the report but has not read or written data file for the grid. Other screens in the application can open the data files and read them as well as accept input and write to them. The operating system we use is Windows. I have been researching and trying

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 24 February 2006]Has anyone ever come up with a list of what exactly the different trace levels log in the debugger?Yes, I know the higher the number the more information is logged. And an undocumented trick I was given years ago is to add 256 to the number to get even more info. It would seem so much easier to have a list that I could use to pick a level based upon the information I'm looking for.brad

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 November 2005]Connected to a unix box via a router over the internet, using telnet, we are noticing that occasionaly we are getting extra keystrokes (usually Enter). Logging the keystrokes, we see they appear to be generated externally to the terminal emulator (in this case reflection). Does anyone know what is happening, or can explain a workaround?tiaIan Warner

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 December 2005]I created a word template (.dot) with text form fields. I can open this is file in cobol and populate the fields by name. I then do a saveas and name the new file (.doc). If I reopen this file in cobolI no longed have the field names available. My question: Is there a way to carry these field names to the new document? Thank you,

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 15 February 2006]Hello everyone, can someone provide some examples of cobol calling windows libpq.dll Postgresql interface?Many thanks in advance, Giovanni

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 October 2005]How do I determine if read-only (or efs-read-only) is set on returned style flags from an inquire?I need to know if read-onlly is set on a field at before event time.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 December 2005][re-posted from the "Linux and Unix" forum]In the latest newsletter from Acu it has a case study about the Archdiocese schools using Acucobol with thin client in a Linux environment. One sentence reads:It was also able to provide a GUI on Linux Does anyone know if this is referring to running the thin client itself in Linux? Or is it just referring to the back-end running on a Linux server?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 28 November 2005]I remember reading a caveate that a radio button cannot be the first control on a screen. Does assigning tab order 1 to the button make it the 1st control on the screen? Is this still the rule?Switching between this screen and another repeatedly eventually cause a thin client crash in the before procedure for the button. The screen back ground, frames, status bar are displayed and the radio button group when the crash occurs.ThanksVins Nash

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 24 January 2006]Hello everyone, looking into samba logs of a AcuRcl/Thin client 7.0.0 installation we noticed that all clients search for an acuthinita.dll (italian is the local language of clients) and than they look for an acuthinloc.dll. Both files aren't part of standard Acu suite and local support doesn't knows anything of those files. Anyone knows anything of this?TIA Giovanni

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 15 December 2005]Good Days,Is there a way to detect the difference between selecting a combobox item with the mouse and the keyboard (alt enter and cursors)?I try with cmd-goto event, but only is useful to detect how the combobox gets the focusThanks very much

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 01 February 2006]I am trying to configure Acuserver on our Windows Server 2003 system to authenticate connections using the 'named pipe' option. The manual warns..." In order to use this option successfully, your client machine must have permission to connect to the named pipe that AcuServer creates. If your machine does not have permission, it may look to you as though your client runtime has hung and it may look to other users as though the server is down. Without the proper permission, the only way to resolve this situation is to kill the server using the Windows NT task manager. See your Windows system administrator for help in establishing named pipe permissions and resolving connection problems. "Well, that is exactly what is happening. I lack the sysadmin skills on NT to know what to do... and half a day spent Googling the planet has not made me any smarter.Can any one help me figure out the NT 'permissions&#

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 17 August 2005]Hi folks!Anyone out there using TRANSACTIONs with their index files?We'd like to perform a series of REWRITE operations as one operation because we believe the program doing them may be being interrupted.We don't really want to go the whole hog and implement full transaction logging, we just need to be able to recover from these individual program interruptions.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 26 July 2005]For those that will use the XML output with sytlesheet format for generating XFD's in 7.0, attached is a sample XFD file and XSL stylesheet. The included XSL stylesheet will work with any 7.0 XFD generated in XML format.Why would you want to do this? One reason, amongst several, is to dynamically transform XFD's into HTML schema documents using XML standards, which saves time from manually documenting them or using proprietary XFD formatters.See sections 2.1.6 File Options and 5.3.3.12 XSL Directive of the 7.0 ACUCOBOL-GT User's Guide for information on how to generate XML XFD's and specify a stylesheet XFD directive.The sample XFD file has a .xml extension added to it so that it can be easily clicked from windows file explorer and the default XML viewing application, typically internet explorer, will open it and automatically apply the acuxfd.xsl transform. You can, of course, create a file type of XFD in w

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 04 October 2005]I wonder if there's a way to put a bitmap or a label or anything else in a combobox like the way you see in the combo-box when you pick a color in 'color settings' ?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 05 August 2005]Has anybody gotten the Java to Cobol examples working yet from the acucobol ver 7.0 docs yet? We are having trouble just trying to compile the java sample files. The java compiler keeps complaining that something is wrong with the "cvm.jar" file.It seems like the jar file is corrupt or bad. Support emailed us another jar file, and we had the same issue.Has anyone had a similar issue?

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 25 August 2005]I have experienced some faults using C$COPY and ThinClient connection on 100 Mbps LAN (server: Linux; clients: winxp H&P). Sometimes the copy fails ( files created with size zero) but no errors return from the runtime ( I use the 'GIVING w-result format). I noted it happens more frequently if I 'click the mouse' during "C$COPY"; the files transferred are not very large ( from 1K to 200K). Some hints, tips ... ????

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 August 2005]All,I have a screen that is longer than the desktop, ie you have to scroll down to see the bottom of the screen. Currently I use the following logic to capture the screen: CALL "W$BITMAP" USING WBITMAP-CAPTURE-IMAGE "PSCREEN.BMP" 0 1 8.This logic captures the current screen as I see it on the desktop. I would to be able to capture the entire application screen from top to bottom. Is this possible? If so, could anybody offer any guidance as to how I could this.Thank you,James

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 02 August 2005]Hi All,Has anyone seen a performance issue when they have a VB.Net program calling a Acucobol program?We have a web application (windows 2003 server) calling a very simple acucobol program (UNIX server). The performance is very slow, about 5 secords per item. Normally it would take under a secord per item.Any Help?