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    microsoft word

    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...
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    send file to USB printer

    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...
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    PDF problems - getting error message if a PDF is already open

    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...
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    SMTPMAIL 501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s)

    Hi, We are suddenly having the following appear when using SMTPMAIL 501 Syntactically invalid EHLO argument(s) As far as I know nothing has changed in the last month - ( we have been running the same program/smtpmail for years). Any ides as to where I start looking? below is a test list...
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    Change sequence of Triggers

    Hi, We have an old Chui program (progress 9.1E under windows - see cut down example below) that needs to be changed, but have a problem that the Leave trigger takes prescedence over the Abort button. (ie if in Customer field and abort button pressed then Leave action fires first). Is there...
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    invoking Microsoft Word (spelling)though Progress problem

    Hi, Windows XP, Progress Version 9.1e and Microsoft Word 2003 We have a system which uses a button to invoke Microsoft Word spelling module on an editor box. This has been working quite happily for a few years, until some PC's were upgraded to Vista with Microsoft Office Word 2007, and now...
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    sending xml through progress

    Hi, We have programs creating xml data and can send it off to the relevant project one at a time using SoapUI. Does anybody know of an easy way to 'wrap' up the sending so that it can be automated(there are 20,000 items to go/receive), or are we going about it in the wrong way? Using...
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    how to 'update text(field)' in GUI

    Hi Windows xp and Progress 9.1Ev2 We are in the process of upgrading an old system written in CHUI that uses the TEXT option on an array (ie have defined in the database a field called Ctext with an extent 3). In CHUI the coding UPDATE TEXT(Ctext) would allow word wrapping onto the next...
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    View-as editor problem

    Progress 9.1E v2 GUI Windows View-as editor problem. A customer wants an editor put on one of his Smart Viewers. 5 lines of 60 characters with ‘Return Inserted and Word Wrap’ The proviso is that it must NOT scroll in any direction – the operator is only allowed to put in a maximum of 5...
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    GUI Smart Viewer Query

    HI Progress 9.1e v2 under windows – GUI using ADM2 Smart objects I have a Smart Window with Smart Browser, Smart Data Object, Smart toolbar, and a folder with two Smart Data Viewers with database fields to be updated on them – quite standard - works perfectly. Now the customer wants various...
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    Users being terminated

    Progress V 9.1E v2 running under Windows 2003 Chui - Character Client Connecting under Procontrol (Users are WinXP) One of our customers have been having problems with their users being 'kicked out' of Progress quite frequently. Looking in the db.lg the message is always Usernum nn...
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    Excel conundrum

    Progress 9.1E v2 GUI under windows Hi We have developed for one of our users a program that creates a .CSV file and then emails it (using SMTPmail) to their customers – this works fine. What the user now wants is to have a ‘pure’ Excel .XLS file with set formats and column widths produced...
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    Updatable Browser problem in ADM2

    Hi Progress 9.1Ev2 GUI ADM2 under windows We have a simple updatable browser for a temp-table that shows four columns, of which the middle two is updatable. What I want to be able to do is VALUE-CHANGED of the first updatable column so that I can populate the end column. I can do it with...
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    _osprint query

    Hi, Just a general query about _osprint. We have a legacy system running 9.1E CHUI under windows (xp and 98) and the user wants to utilise the windows printing options – so we thought we could use _osprint etc. However we cannot change the font so any landscape reports are truncated – not what...
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    IMPORT STREAM Query

    Windows xp and Progress 9.1e CHUI There are 20 lines in the file to be imported including 1 duplicated. Hi, Its Friday afternoon and am having problems with the following piece of code - Firstly as their are duplicates in the imported file the ERROR-STATUS statement kicks in, which is...
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    SMTPMAIL read receipt not working?

    Progress 9.1e CHUI under windows xp Hi I have been using SMPTPMAIL57a for quite a while with no problems, and now a user want to use the Read Receipt/Delivery Receipt facility. I have added CHR(1) + "yes,yes" to the Emailfrom field but the Receipts dont seem to have been actioned. The...
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    Changing color in Chui Browse

    Hi, Chui Version 9.1e02 and Windows xp. We have an old version in which we need(if possible) to change the background color of a Browse cell. in GUI this is done via the ROW-DISPLAY Trigger such as IF rowobject.xstat = "X" THEN ASSIGN rowObject.bkcode:BGCOLOR IN BROWSE br_table =...
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    Publish/Subscribe Question

    Hi Progress 9.1e 02 Windows xp Using ADM2 I have a Smart Container with SDO, smart Browser and 2 SD viewers on it. From the Smart Container I am doing PUBLISH "viewit" (INPUT viewit). (From procedure InitializeObject) In the SD viewer I am doing SUBSCRIBE TO "viewit" ANYWHERE. (in the...
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    obtaining userid from login(was _connect)

    Hi As I have had no response I will try again. I am trying to tie up the userid logins with the _connect table but am having difficulty – because the userid does not seem to appear in the _connect table. Windows 2003, Progress 9.1E Enterprise The following is a part of the db.log Mon Jun...
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    programatically changing Insert/overtype mode

    Progress 9.1e02 Windows CHUI Hi This may be a silly question but is there a way within a program to ensure that the mode of editing in a field is alway overtype as opposed to Insert. I.E. On pressing the Insert key on the keyboard then start typing will insert the characters at the...
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