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Length of precompiler constant namesAuthor: ulrichmerkel@web.de (ulrich-merkel) as I have not found a hint in the documentation (so far): What is the maximum (netto) length for thisismyverylongname in the statement: #define thisismyverylongname I say netto because this name may be composed like: #define <$componentname>_<$entname>_<$modelname>_<$fieldname>_thisIsAFullQualifiedPrecompilerConstant which at the end would result in a 67 character name: #define myForm_myEntity1_DUMMY_PK1_thisIsAFullQualifiedPrecompilerConstant BTW: is there a limit on "nested" precompiler constants like: message "there is some value: <<$componentname>_<$entname>_<$modelname>_<$fieldname>_thisIsAFullQualifiedPrecompilerConstant>" Greetings from Frankfurt/Germay, Uli

Help on Pattern search and replace in uniface 9.6.Author: lalitpct@gmail.com (lalitpct) String 1. Unix Command [. $HOME/prj1 SERVER; abc; jkl;Nmsn;] Need to search for "Unix Command [" and then first semicolon (;) after that replace it by X I was able to get postion for "Unix Command [" using scan output, "Unix Command [?" but Not sure how to get first semicolon. String 2. DB PID: 67 DB server: SERVERNAME DB date: Apr 13 2015 12:04:25PM Here also I need to block SERVERNAME which has DB Server: as fixed pattern but dont know how to get end location. Thanks in advance

double-sided printingAuthor: praffo@asl4.liguria.it (praffo) Hi all, I have to print a Uniface report, made with Uniface 9.4 and composed of 2 pages, in one double-sided paper; is there a way to set by Uniface printer settings in order to produce a double-sided result instead of manually change printer settings whenever I want to print such report? Thanks all in advance Paolo

[SOLVED] 9.7 - background too bright!!Author: knut.dybendahl@gmail.com (Knut) Hi all, I just downloaded 9.7 - got it installed and all good so far - apart from; The background in the form painter (outside my form and the component editor window) is bright white - and I don't seem to be able to switch it to another color.... I'm sitting here with 4 monitor - and 4 very white and bright screens ---- :-( For the safety of my eyes, I'd like to change this - alas, how and where?? Knut

SOLVED: update a $valrep on a DSPAuthor: lammersma@hotmail.com (lammersma) Hi all,   I need a bit of help with a problem I have.   On a DSP I want to update the $valrep of a dropdown. In the debugger I can see the $valrep gets a new value, but in the browser the old values is shown. On the first activate: $valrep of the dropdown is filled with an associative list.  When I push a button in the detail trigger a new associative list is build the dropdown receives the new list as an $valrep as mentioned the debugger shows the correct $valrep, but in the browser the old list is shown... In the SetState contains the default coding. I tried to put the webdefinitions statement in the update part of the selectcase in that trigger. But that does not change anything in the client behavoir.   Kind regard,   Peter

Question - what resolution monitors are you using when developing with Uniface? Author: adrian.gosbell@synapse-i.jp (Adrian Gosbell) We're tweaking the Uniface 9 IDF as part of Uniface 9.7.  One thing that we need to consider is what would be the minimum resolution monitor/screen which developers are using nowadays.  For example the one I'm using right now is 1600 x 900.  I'm interested to know what you are all using.  Just to emphasize, development, not the resolution of the screens you are deploying your aps on. . 

INTERNAL ERROR: data object visible in 2 differente realized objects ?Author: lammersma@hotmail.com (lammersma)  Hi,   In my Uniface webapplication sometimes I get the message 'INTERNAL ERROR: data object visible in 2 differente realized objects ?' in my browser. How can I find more specific information? Which data object? And what are these realized objects?   kind regards,   Peter

Tree Structure on a listbox widgetAuthor: fearandir@gmail.com (fearandir) Is this case scenario possible for a listbox widget?     I've tried assigning sublist to the $fieldvalrep with not Success. Thank in advance Sergio.

Classic deployment, multiple source enquiryAuthor: bartonm@westinghouse.com (radarhead)  Hi there, I am developing/deploying my application in the classic method (no zip file or xml etc), and I am wondering if it is possible in the asn (or some other method) to specify multiple source areas. For example: main.asn *.frm                \\\\server\\source1\\components\\frm\\*.frm *.frm                \\\\server\\source2\\components\\frm\\*.frm The problem with this approach is that it simply overwrites source1 with source2, no forms are loaded from source1. I have also tried main.asn *.frm                \\\\server\\source1\\components\\frm\\*.frm #file                 \\\

Global Sort Option for select RDBMSAuthor: william-paul.philibert@telus.com (wpphili) Bonjour,    we recently upgraded from version 9.4 to 9.6 but more importantly from Sybase driver U2 to U4.  There is a major change in the way the driver handle request to the database.  Using the driver U2, there were index suggestion everywhere witch, in a way, took care of the sorting order of the result.  Now, with the driver U4, there are no more index suggestion, leaving all the decision to the database with an unwanted/unexpected result that rows fetch from the database are no more sorted and are displayed as is in the different forms. My question, besides going into each and every form to add "order by" clause, is there any way to have a global sort somewhere or anything else that could "easily" fix this behavior?   Thanks for your time, support and knowledge.   Regards, William P. Philibert

External soundAuthor: ivanandradesantana@gmail.com (IvanSantana) Hi, does anyone know if there are any command that runs an external sound. My uniface version is 9.6...

Vertical panel iconsAuthor: roger.wallin@abilita.fi (rogerw) Uniface 9.6.04 and Uniface 9.6.07. Got this question from an Uniface user and I couldn't answer . Selecting panel type "left" or "right" (Setup -> miscellaneous), is it possible to get the icons vertically? At least here it makes a very high row, covering half of the application-screen. Regards RogerW. 

Migration from 9.6.04 to 9.6.07Author: giachino@finaosta.com (Paolo Giachino) Hi all to migrate from 9.6.04 to 9.6.07 is mandatory to create a new repository on 9.6.07 and import all (i.e. components, signatures, ...) from 9.6.04 or I can only re-compile all on IDF 9.6.07? Do you have any suggestions? Thanks in advance Best regards Paolo

Keep Layout State and Keep Layout StorageAuthor: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni) In Uniface 9.6.X603 an issue solved is described as: ****************************************************************************************************************************** 30581 If KeepLayoutState is False for a Form but True for a Grid in the Form, the Grid Layout State is Stored at Instance Level in the Registry but only if the Instance Name has not been generated by Uniface. In other words Uniface behave as if Layout State Storage is set to Instance. ****************************************************************************************************************************** We feel an issue we currently have is connected to this bug/solution but from the description of the solution we are not able to understand which was the wrong behaviour and which is the correct-ed one. What we need to achieve in our forms including a grid is to be able to save the state at component lev

Uniface and SSRS via SOAPAuthor: knut.dybendahl@gmail.com (Knut) Howdy all, Anyone out there successfully integrated with SSRS via SOAP on a SQL Server 2008 R2? Any pitfalls / gotya's? Knut

[SOLVED] IDF error 5802 unable to start component UUPERM08Author: mail@gandg.it (TheAleph) Hello everybody, Uniface 9.4  patch  R135  I usually work on a 32 bit  XP virtual, now I'm trying to work on Win7  64 bit  (using the same asn): for the runtime it's ok, but using IDF there is an error:   5802 unable to start component  UUPERM08: component not found   suggestions ?  thanks, Roberto

$instancemod vs. $formmodAuthor: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni) I am reporting here a question I got few days ago... A VAR is in the process to migrate an old Uniface customer to a new version of the same warehouse management application. This customer is used to an OLD Standard & Guidelines where the user was warned when exiting a form having changed something; this behaviour was managed in the <QUIT> trigger checking $formmod or $formdbmod functions. The new application version is Windows based and have a NEW Standard & Guidelines in place due to a wide use of non-modal forms. This new Standard & Guidelines version the application moved away from warning the user when exiting having changed something because the VAR claims it was NOT able to implement a similar functionality really working with Uniface9 in a non-modal environment. Basic reasons reported are: 1) the different way $formmod and $instancemod are implemented: - $formmod (and $formdbmo

Proc Code to determine which "Entry" I'm inAuthor: maciokr@natfuel.com (RobM) In Uniface 9.6 does proc code exist that will allow me to determine which Entry I'm in?   Example: ; ========= Entry YouAreHere ; ========= Variables    String sEntryName EndVariables ; sEntryName would return "YouAreHere" sEntryName = $SomeUnifaceCallToDeterminEntryName   Return (sEntryName) ; =========

Migrate users from 9.4 to 9.6Author: william-paul.philibert@telus.com (wpphili) Bonjour,    lets assume I need to migrate all my Uniface 9.4 users to Uniface 9.6 environement, how would you proceed?   So far I have been using this : /cpy $SYS:*.SYSENV XML: With result that, yes, my users have migrated but no permission, no privilege and no password.   Thanks for you help Regards,   William

Error -259Author: ablancouribe@compuamerica.com.ve (bioalexy) Hi,   I'm getting this error on the webload and in the message log says "LOAD Security error: FieldValue of NON DB field [TAB.MENU.CONTROL] has been modified". This happens when i use an extended trigger "OnChange" on another field of another entity in the same DSP.

Get the entityname for an unqualified fieldnameAuthor: i2stiller@gmx.de (istiller) Hi Freaks Is it possible to get the entityname for an unqualified fieldname? Say there are four entities painted: ENT_1A,ENT_2A and ENT_1B,ENT_2B In both entities ENT_1A and ENT_1B there is a field FIELD_1 In both entities ENT_2A and ENT_2B there is a button *----- ENT_1A -------------------------------* *                                                 * *                       *--- ENT_2A --*     * *      FIELD_1      *   <button>  *     * *                       *------------------*    * *    &nb

Source / Version controlAuthor: knut.dybendahl@gmail.com (Knut) Hi all, Does anyone out there have a straight forward 'how-to' document for using Source / Version control with Uniface? UD6 is not an option - looking for TFS (preferably) / git / ??? Any suggestions / hints? Knut

Turn off thousands separator from NLS localeAuthor: mmontealegre@commandalkon.com (mmontealegre) We have had a recent project to turn our legacy application to start using NLS locale so that the decimal separator is comma for Europe and period for US.  For this we started using $nls_locale, previously we never had this set to anything.  Without this set there is no thousand separator, now with this set there is a thousands separator.  This causes a large number of bugs in our application in a large variety of areas.  Is there any way to just turn the thousand separator off?  Also wouldn't mind if there was a way to turn off the date formatting portion as well.  We have had a ton of custom logic dealing with dates that is stepping on the NLS in a large number of areas of the application as well.

Best way to add many messages to a UAR file?Author: mmontealegre@commandalkon.com (mmontealegre) I am trying to get a huge number of messages into a UAR file.  The deployment archive editor seems to have an issue when adding more than 100,000 messages at the same time.  When retrieving all those messages in the editor it pegs out the memory and Uniface crashes.  I am currently going through the editor and just retrieving one language at a time (about 16,000 messages) and adding just that set to the archive.  This process gets slower and slower as I add each language, I am on my 3rd language now and it's taking 2 hours to add just it with 10 more to go.  Is there a command line that can be used for this?  I tried this statement urm copy $mss_rep:* NewArchive.uar:* but I just get an error that says "Cannot compile component definition".  I am working in a database repository that started with brand new and just imported my messages via the x

Printing on multitray printers choosing correct tray without enduser interactionAuthor: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni) /BRAINSTORMING ON When we developed with Uniface we try to be as agnostic as possible (as indipendent as possible) from different deployment configurations. This is true also for printing functionalities. Today good quality multitray printers enable to automatically collect paper from a specific tray based on paper format (A4 - A3) defined when the spool file is generated. A good example is: - A good quality multitray printer available somewhere on the network- The default tray for this printer (and another one) contains A4 paper because 90% of printing functionalities are on this paper format - Only the third tray contains A3 paper because of remaining of printing functionalities Is there anyway to influence such decision printing with a Uniface application having the printer printing on the correct paper without any action from end user?  /BR