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many times when we are done designing a dialog box, it is tedious to write the code for each control using REDEFINE ... Here you have an utility that automatically writes the code for you: (work in progress, we do appreciate your feedback) #include "FiveWin.ch"static ...

... your knowledge of creating screens. It would be great if we could exchange our experiences here. There are so many little pitfalls, and it can be tedious to tackle them all on your own. It would be much easier together. I can't help but think of how often I stumble upon casesensitivity issues ...

... a codeblock or a valid function name, uVar itself is returned * fw_stricmp() treats nil as lower than other datatypes * New: We know that it is a tedious task to write help for an app, so we have implemented a real simple way to do it using FWH: SetAutoHelp( lOnOff, lEditable ) // lEditable is ...

We know that it is a tedious task to write help for an app, so we have implemented a real simple way to do it using FWH: SetAutoHelp( lOnOff, lEditable ) // lEditable is .T. by default just call that function at the beginning of your ...

... not saved"else   ? cThumb   XImage( cThumb )endif  In all other cases, we have to go through the tedious process of displaying the file on the screen, take the screenshot and save it, after resizing if required. c:\fwh\samples\xblstgrd.prg c:\fwh\samples\listvie.prg ...

... This made me re open a cmd window lots of times because after x calls to vcvars32.bat the cmd becomes unusable. Now that tedious task is over :-)

... keep adding the real text, character by character until is exceeds the printable width, then subtract everything up to the last space and print. Tedious. I assume there is some reason you can't just let the printer object handle all this for you? If you are doing some kind of a special report ...

First thing: You do not need to write such long and tedious functions to convert date into text. Instead, you can use FW_TRANSFORM() Please try this: dDate := Date() ? FW_TRANSFORM( dDate--, "ddd, dd mmm yyyy" ), FW_TRANSFORM( dDate--, "dddd, ...

... insensitive search. In addition, FW_AT() provides more capabilities that are not easily possible with (x)Harbour's AT() or HB_AT() except without tedious coding by the programmer. Syntax: FW_AT( acSearch, [@]cString, [ncFrom], [ncEnd], [lWholeWord], [lSkipQuotes], [@cMatchFound], [cSubstitute], ...

... to the English string constants in the aStrings array in strings.prg. Though it is possible to build such an array manually, it is very tedious, time-consuming, error-prone and very difficult to maintain. We propose a tool (a program) that makes the process much easier and safer. This ...

... to browse thousands of customers looking for the one you want. If there were less than say 50 customers then it might work but still be somewhat tedious. As you can see there are lots of unanswered questions for which you need answers. Without answers to those questions you can't proceed. If ...

... Xmate. I looked at years ago, but if I remember correctly, I had to save my files from my editor, then go to Xmate to compile. This gets really tedious. With a make file, I can just press the compile button in my editor. Maybe I never figured out how Xmate was supposed to work? Actually, I haven't ...

... It would be better to use CUSTID, PARTID, INVOICEID, etc. However changing a fieldname in a legacy program is going to very difficult and tedious to debug. If you are using database objects then it is not much of an issue because you are using oCust:id, oPart:id, and oInvoice:id, so the ...

... others are uncomfortable at the lack of high-level tools shipped with the product. A classic example: reports. You either roll your own, with tedious line-by-line printing, calculating, and looping, or you simply buy a reporting package like R&R or BandIT. CA-Clipper 5.3 addresses some ...

... have been doing and assign each field to memory variable. This does mean writing lots of code to load those vars then save them. This gets very tedious very quickly. Fortunately, there is a better solution, and that is to use a record class which copies the data from a database record and thus ...