Recent content by Mike Clark

Hi Rob, Thanks for your reply. I am looking for a Word Document in general - either a .DOC or .DOCX I found an old program - see below - that Creates a Word document and puts in the contents of the incoming file into that word document - but leaves the Word Document open on the screen. If...

Hi I have just come back into working with Progress and am having problems with creating a MicroSoft Word document automatically from within Progress. I have most of the requisite data in a 'working text document' called test.txt but want to add extras to it and then have it saved as a...

Hi, Windows 7 and Progress 10.2b I have been asked to provide validation on email addresses so have been trying to run the /* client_ValidateEmail.p */ program as above but am getting the following error. Any help gratefully received. Web Service operation ValidateEmail generated a SOAP...

Hi Osborne, Thanks for all your help, but I think we will have to go down the adecomm\_osprint.p route Regards Mike

Hi Osborne, I tried your suggested solution to create a virtual port (LPT2) with the computer name/printer name. I changed the printer properties to use LPT2, but still the same. Regards Mike

Hi Osborne, Thanks for the reply. I will try to do the NET USE solution and see what happens Regards Mike

Windows Vista Progress 9.1E (and 10.2B) Hi We are having a problem with being able to send(COPY) a print file to a USB printer. The created.txt is a print file with various control characters in it for formatting. The program in question has the following code to send print to the Shared...

Hi Thanks I will try your suggestions and see what happens Mike

Hi Thanks for your reply, but not quite the problem I am having It is when the user opens up PDF files from different sources - the internet, or a different application and leaves them open that the problem occurs. We don't know what the name of the PDF file is so can't check it via the...

Hi, We look at PDF files through Progress using the code below and it has been acceptable for a while. However when a PDF is already being looked at, chosen from a directory, not through Progress, and the code is run (through a program) then the following message is shown and the required PDF...

Hi We use a product called vpXprint from a company called 4GL (www.4gl.fr) that produces PDF documents. Mike

Hi Assuming that the object for the browse is called br_table (Using ADM2 to link all the objects on a Smart Window) then in Definitions section DEF VAR lastcol AS HANDLE NO-UNDO. DEF VAR tmpdesc AS CHAR NO-UNDO. DEF VAR datasource AS HANDLE. DEF VAR csort AS CHAR NO-UNDO...

Hi We use VpXprint from a company called 4GL. They can be reached at www.4gl.fr and offer a download test version. Hope that helps Mike

Hi We use vpXprint 8 to develop/create print files in PDF format and find it very useful. They are at www.4gl.fr Regards Mike

Try REPEAT i = 50 to 1 BY -1: DISPLAY i END. Regards Mike