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... display numbers // this part is straight forward ii. Once it displayed, pop a dialog box at the edge of the external exe's window // 2 issues. Determining when the external exe appear and positioning my dialog box iii. If user click Ok on the dialog, create a screenshot and email it // what's ...

... to provide the ability to control error handling without the resulting default message box being displayed. The example code below can be used for determining if an error occurred while attempting to open a table: LOCAL oDB AS DBServer LOCAL dwError AS DWORD LOCAL pacError AS PSZ LOCAL wLen AS ...

... icon from the exe itself I took the approach of preparing in advance the icons of commonly used browser and select which one to use after determining what is current default browser. Anyone knows what is the tried and tested method to include alpha blended images in an rc compiled with ...

... returns if the sql statement is valid or not. This is useful to study the possibility of further optimizing execution of sql statement as well as determining the validity of sql statement without executing. 2) New METHOD IsBinaryField( cTable, cField ) --> lIsBinary

... //----------------------------------------------------------------------------// function Main() local aTimerInfo := TimerCount() // Determining how long an application has been running MsgInfo( "Milliseconds since this task started: " + Str( aTimerInfo[ 1 ] ) ) MsgInfo( ...

... want gets complicated. Since you can't use syntax similar to filters with scopes, then you have to scope on one field only then filter the rest. Determining which field to use as a scope can be complicated. You could build four indexes, one for each piece of data. Then you have to pick which ...

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I am still struggling to figure out a way to paint a rectangle in xBrowse. Two problems:

1) Determining the top, bottom, right and left
2) the syntax to draw the rectangle with transparent text and color

Many Thanks!
Rick Lipkin

Hello Enrico,
Fivewin classes are my reference for good programming style. As I see that for the same assignment in different classes = and := are used I asked which is the right way.
I personally prefer :=. Why context determining which is meant.
Thanks again for your help.
Best regards,
Otto

Thanks for all the replies.
My first thought was PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE but I fear that only tells about the hardware, not the software.
I'll try the other approaches and see how they work and post my results later.

Regards,

Louis, you can also check the environment variables PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE and PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER to get those informations // OS 32bit shows x86, 64bit shows AMD64 lIsOs64 := (Upper (GetEnv("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE")) = "AMD64" // 64 bit capeable processor shows EM64T lIsCp...

Luis, Another way is to check the size of an integer, though this will just check the application itself, not the OS: #include "FiveWin.ch" function Main() MsgInfo( SizeOfInt() == 8, "Am I 64 ?" ) return nil #pragma BEGINDUMP #include <hbapi.h> HB_FUNC( SIZEOFINT ) ...

Luis,

This may help you: IsWow64Process()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684139(VS.85).aspx

Hi all: I'm wondering what's the best way to determine if the OS running is 64bit or not. The need is basically to determine if will install the 64 or 32 bit version of ADS 9x in our installer. I wonder if a simple GetEnv( "PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE" ) should be enough or is there a WinAPI ca...

Hi Anser Is your application single user? If not then I don't think that determining what windows your application has open would do the trick. You would need to use flags and / or locks. I would suggest such an approach for a single user scenario also as it ...