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    Changing Printer Font at RunTime

    V9.1C GUI Using Output to PRINTER, is there a way to change the font based on user's input at runtime? For eg. the progress.ini specifies PrinterFont=Courier New, size=9. If the user wants a bigger/smaller font based on his own choice and based on the particular report being printed, can...
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    Understanding fonts and frame-width

    Nope it does not work this way. Compiled a sample program with Verdana,size 9 - leaving the frame width at default 80 (instead of specifying 110) and it was wraparound. Change the progress.ini to Verdana, size 7, start a new Progress session and rerun the compiled program - wordings...
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    Understanding fonts and frame-width

    Understanding Fonts and Frame-width - EXPLAINED I have checked with Progress Australia and Phillip has given a reasonble good explanation. It goes as follows:- Conclusion- In GUI, Progress reserves more space for those 'decorations' around fields. Thus several fields that add upto...
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    Understanding fonts and frame-width

    This is happening with my Development machine using the Progress.ini I have set up in the development machine. I am doing session compile. Application is not yet deployed anywhere else. If this cannot be resolved, it would mean I have to go thru all the programs and expand the width of...
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    Understanding fonts and frame-width

    Yes its compiled using V9.1C GUI. I checked the entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PSC\PROGRESS\9.1C\Startup and it shows that the DefaultFont is Ms Sans Serif, Size 8. But this theorectically should not matter because I started Progress with 'prowin32.exe -basekey ini' This should pick...
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    Understanding fonts and frame-width

    I am currently converting an old Progress V7 Dos application to V9 GUI. In the old DOS application I had the following code which works fine:- for each myfile with width 80 frame fdetail: display doc-date invoice trantype doc-no description amount. end. Running the same procedure...
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    Prorest cannot restore with Relative pathname?

    Sorry, I may not have explained clearly the problem I had. Let me rephrase it: I need my database to have Relative pathname stored within the database. Pathname is specified in the .st file but when a database is created the pathname is also stored, if I am not wrong, in the .db file which...
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    PEG - new category?

    Yes good move. Suggestion: Maybe you want to consider adding the word "READ-ONLY" to the orange banner/title that says "PEG (Progress Email Group)". Regards Skc
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    PEG - new category?

    Its clear to me now. But it may not be to new users here. They may make the same mistake as I to 'post' questions to the PEG forum from here and then wondering why there's no reply :confused: . Perhaps there should be some 'Notice' about this. Thanks for your explanation. Regards Skc
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    Prorest cannot restore with Relative pathname?

    Tried the following steps: In C:\dirOne probkup mydb D:\mybackup [mydb is relative pathname] In C:\dirTwo copy C:\standard.st mydb.st [contains relative . pathname] prostrct create mydb mydb.st [## void db] prorest mydb D:\mybackup Does not work...
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    Os-command and auto-closing the DOS window

    One error remark I have made. 4GL 'create database' CAN create relative path database subject that the new database must not contain any dir \ symbol - among other conditions. Skc
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    Prorest cannot restore with Relative pathname?

    V9.1C Windows 98 I have backup a database "mydb" with relative structure to A:\ drive. Prior to backup prostrct list mydb shows .\mydb and mydb.st shows:- # b . # d "Schema Area":6,32 . However on restore, prostrct list mydb shows the absolute pathname. No matter how I try using...
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    PEG - new category?

    Hullo Chris I have just posted a question to the PEG forum from here using ProgressTalk. There was no error and the Posting went through. I thought that my posting would also appear automatically in the actual PEG forum - but it appears that this is not so. So it's just for Read-only...
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    PEG - new category?

    Hi I was away for > 1 year . Now I am back and I noticed there's another category called "PEG (Progress Email Group)". Is this category tapping into another forum elsewhere? Is this an alternative group? Would the same features that work here work in PEG category - things like 'notify me...
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    How to shift Editor's viewport?

    Below is part of my code: assign mreport:read-only in frame freport = YES mreport:sensitive in frame freport = YES frame freport:title = "View " + sfile + " " mreport:FONT = 3 mstat = mreport:read-file(sfile) in frame freport...
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    How to shift Editor's viewport?

    Report Viewer - how to shift Editor's viewport? V9.1C Progress Windows I created a Large Editor in a frame for the purpose of viewing reports. The Editor is as wide as the screen. But the report can be wider than the Editor's width. What I want to accomplish is that when the user...
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    Os-command and auto-closing the DOS window

    That helps! How come I can forget this simple solution? Much thanks :) Regards Skc
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    Os-command and auto-closing the DOS window

    Using V9.1C Windows Progress. My purpose is to allow end-user to create new database from a sample db. V9 is always multi-volume and I want the db-name stored in the new database to contain relative pathname of the new db. For this reason I seem to have to use the prodb utility (cannot use...
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