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Another one bytes the CSS!

https://codepen.io/Wujek_Greg/pen/LmrweG

You can play changing the text shown in the screen.

Hi guys,
I have the book Clipper 5.2 A Developer's Guide by Joseph Booth, Greg Lief and Craig Yellick.

It came with a disk that contains the source that are in the book but I've lost that disk.

Does anyone has it and could you be so kind to email me a copy of that disk contents?

TIA

Greg,

PrinterSetup() returns 0 if you press Cancel button.

EMG

... case? Ive lived with this just as a nuisance but it is problematic now with a client and larger print jobs. I need a solution. Thanks in advance, Greg

... .rc file replacing "listbox" with "twbrowse". I will begin to experiment with xbrowse soon. Again, thanks for all the help! Greg

Greg,

I guess I need to switch to a different resource editor that will use native .rc file.

I suggest to use the resource editor of PellesC, it´s free and very good.

Greg, Here is another option--use xbrowse instead of wbrowse. It looks like it is syntax compatible so there would only be one change to your source code.        REDEFINE LISTBOX oLbx FIELDS bscust->custno, bscust->company, ...

Greg, Hmm, well I suggest creating the RC with ResEdit then edit it with a text editor (just one listbox-to-TWBrowse conversion), then using Borland's Workshop, load it and save it, then compile and test. If there are no problems ...

... Borland? I recall using Borland years ago and switched because of some problems I had with it...institutional memory is lapsing here. Thanks, Greg

Greg, I guess it will just boil down to some extra work to manage the .rc file when I make screen changes....sigh. There will be no extra work when you make changes. When the RC file is loaded back into the resource editor, ...

Enrico, Thanks, I didn't know the zero wasn't needed. Greg, You can also leave off the WS_BORDER to get the more current flat look as I did in my previous example. So now you would have: CONTROL "", IDC_LISTBOX1, "TWBrowse", WS_CHILD ...

Greg, A simple solution is to just load your RC file into a TEXT editor and change the LISTBOX definitions to custom TWBrowse controls as Enrico showed. In this example I have just commented out the LISTBOX line and added ...

Greg, Here is a simple example of how you use TXbrowse instead of Listbox. Create a custom control called "TXBrowse" and edit the style to something like: 0 | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER | WS_VSCROLL There ...

Greg, Im sure I will have to be more imaginative in how to deal with editing the resources. As I am continually updating the application using the RESEDIT GUI to build or change dialogs, when RESEDIT creates the .rc file, ...

... static, but we are continually making updates and improvements. Anyone have any advice on an "easy" way to handle this? Thanks! Greg