Recent content by johnnebi

Very strange. When I click on it it takes me www.microsoft.com. I had to copy/paste it to mozilla.

Actually, further test show that a:screen-value returns what is keyed in.

Hmmm... interesting ... Try this ... def var a as char. update a blank. message asc(a:screen-value) view-as alert-box.

Nice trick. How about this though: UPDATE vscan BLANK.

We have written some progress e-mail functions based on mutt if you are interested. You would need to install mutt of course. We even have a character UI.

reposition-to-rowid() ??

What's in the structure (.st) file?

Closing/re-opening the query seems a little drastic. Have you tried the refresh() method?

From V6, I'm guessing your only option is to issue shell commands.

Define "windows app". Can u use a mouse?

Well, unless the users are accessing some sort of share, where they have centralized access to one single body of r-code, it HAS to be installed on the client machine. But in either case, that's not the where performance hit is. The problem is the data. The client is maintaining a live...

If you mean that standard client/server in a WAN environment sucks, you are right. Yes the r-code should be on the client machine.

Hey! my bullet points didn't show up!!

Let's do a terminology sanity check: Server: The machine where the DB lives. Also know as "host" Broker: A Progress process running on the host or server that allows clients to access the DB Client: A Progress session (which can run on the host OR on a remote machine), that, through the...

There are no major differences in making remote connections between v9/v10 Progress and V6. All of the documentation for V9 is online at the Progress Website, but basically you need to: - add an entry to your /etc/services file for each database you want to connect to . Simply create a...