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Nils G. Svedmyr
25-Jan-2009, 06:55 PM
Hi,

The new version have many new features and most of them are listed below. The installation comes with the full source code and is absolutely Free!

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Here is the link:
http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM

Enjoy!

Nils G. Svedmyr
RDC Tools International


a.. A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor of the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online "What's New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho Marx section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was removed from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start Center can also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The logo in the top righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the Visual DataFlex web site.
a.. The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over the Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no internet connection is available, the html news file will be read from the harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available the news file will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an internet connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy of Allan Kim Eriksen.
a.. The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the previously used start dialog was removed. The background image settings were moved to the first tab-page.
a.. A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and hit the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and also provided a solution - Thank you.
a.. The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view that has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with an asterisk (*) after the name.
a.. An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and help video clips within the application. The Program Preference's panel contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an external browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
a.. Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very easy to edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this purpose. See the Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
a.. The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming effects. It means that the file size can be smaller while the part that is in focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very efficient and nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was used for the video clips. The buttons to start the clips on the Preference's panel were removed and can be found in the Help menu.
a.. The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object are flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So the help menu contains http links to that server. This is a service that is provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
a.. The video clips are still included and gets installed into subfolders of the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips instead of the online versions - all you need to do is to edit the links with the 'Edit Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to QMM's Help folder. Or you can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper Links view.
a.. Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
a.. The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question view and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner. The refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view was in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
a.. The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an internet link in the help document is provided. If clicked an internet page is displayed in the help program.
a.. The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as well. The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used to create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template and then 'pour' the help project file into that template with a Merger program. Once the template is done the PDF is created with a few clicks. HelpMaker is the program that is used to create the html (.chm) Help file. The internet link in the PDF document also works just as in the html Help file.
a.. The source for the help project is now also included in the installation program for the full source version. Also all html code and images for the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
a.. It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path, just like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog function. Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the vWin32fh.pkg was used to display a dialog to select a folder from. However, it lacked the ability to set an initial path - meaning that the folder dialog would always start by showing all available drives on the computer. This function is used when a backup is going to be restored in the dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens pointing at QuzMaster's Data folder, where backups are usually contained in sub-folders. * Important! The BrowseDialog function relies on a callback dll that resides in QMM's programs folder - named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_ deploy that .dll if you are going to use the BrowseDialog function. Courtesy of David Martinko and Wil van Antwerpen.
a.. Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was displayed even if only one language had been selected from the property panel, after the program was re-started.
a.. New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help and for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images were created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser object. And I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
a.. The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of Wil van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the machine running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
a.. New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added

wila
25-Jan-2009, 07:24 PM
Nils,

You are just too kind :)

I can only say: Do check this out if you have a chance as it has again
many new tricks and examples.

If you want to get the best out of your VDF development tools then you
just have to look at what he has done in the new version of Quizmaster.

VDF 2008.1 / 14.1 taken to the top, very nice work Nils, top notch
quality as always!

--
Wil


Nils G. Svedmyr wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The new version have many new features and most of them are listed
> below. The installation comes with the full source code and is
> absolutely Free!
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Here is the link:
> http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Nils G. Svedmyr
> RDC Tools International
>
> # A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most
> important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor of
> the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online "What's
> New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho Marx
> section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was removed
> from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start Center can
> also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The logo in the top
> righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the Visual DataFlex web
> site.
> # The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over the
> Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no internet
> connection is available, the html news file will be read from the
> harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available the news file
> will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an internet
> connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy of Allan Kim
> Eriksen.
> # The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the previously
> used start dialog was removed. The background image settings were moved
> to the first tab-page.
> # A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the
> General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and
> hit the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar
> checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and also
> provided a solution - Thank you.
> # The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view that
> has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with an
> asterisk (*) after the name.
> # An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and help
> video clips within the application. The Program Preference's panel
> contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an external
> browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
> # Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very easy to
> edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this purpose. See the
> Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
> # The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming effects.
> It means that the file size can be smaller while the part that is in
> focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very efficient and
> nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was used for the
> video clips. The buttons to start the clips on the Preference's panel
> were removed and can be found in the Help menu.
> # The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object are
> flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So the help
> menu contains http links to that server. This is a service that is
> provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
> # The video clips are still included and gets installed into subfolders of
> the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips instead of the
> online versions - all you need to do is to edit the links with the 'Edit
> Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to QMM's Help folder. Or you
> can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper Links view.
> # Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash
> plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
> # The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question view
> and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a
> dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner. The
> refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted
> side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view
> was in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
> # The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an internet
> link in the help document is provided. If clicked an internet page is
> displayed in the help program.
> # The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as well.
> The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used to
> create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template and then
> 'pour' the help project file into that template with a Merger program.
> Once the template is done the PDF is created with a few clicks.
> HelpMaker is the program that is used to create the html (.chm) Help
> file. The internet link in the PDF document also works just as in the
> html Help file.
> # The source for the help project is now also included in the installation
> program for the full source version. Also all html code and images for
> the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
> # It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path, just
> like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog function.
> Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the vWin32fh.pkg was used
> to display a dialog to select a folder from. However, it lacked the
> ability to set an initial path - meaning that the folder dialog would
> always start by showing all available drives on the computer. This
> function is used when a backup is going to be restored in the
> dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens pointing at QuzMaster's
> Data folder, where backups are usually contained in sub-folders. *
> Important! The BrowseDialog function relies on a callback dll that
> resides in QMM's programs folder - named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_
> deploy that ..dll if you are going to use the BrowseDialog function.
> Courtesy of David Martinko and Wil van Antwerpen.
> # Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was
> displayed even if only one language had been selected from the property
> panel, after the program was re-started.
> # New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help and
> for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images were
> created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser object.
> And I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
> # The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been
> scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of Wil
> van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the
> machine running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
> # New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip
> Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added
>

Pieter van Dieren
26-Jan-2009, 03:36 PM
I totally agree with Wil! :-)
Thanks again Nils!


"Wil van Antwerpen" <info@antwise.com> schreef in bericht
news:$z4yBy0fJHA.2076@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Nils,
>
> You are just too kind :)
>
> I can only say: Do check this out if you have a chance as it has again
> many new tricks and examples.
>
> If you want to get the best out of your VDF development tools then you
> just have to look at what he has done in the new version of Quizmaster.
>
> VDF 2008.1 / 14.1 taken to the top, very nice work Nils, top notch quality
> as always!
>
> --
> Wil

Nils G. Svedmyr
26-Jan-2009, 04:22 PM
Thank you - both of you.

Hope it do come out handy.

- Nils G.

"Pieter van Dieren" <pieter.v.dieren@synerga.nl> skrev i meddelandet
news:A9dU6W$fJHA.4384@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> I totally agree with Wil! :-)
> Thanks again Nils!
>
>
> "Wil van Antwerpen" <info@antwise.com> schreef in bericht
> news:$z4yBy0fJHA.2076@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>> Nils,
>>
>> You are just too kind :)
>>
>> I can only say: Do check this out if you have a chance as it has again
>> many new tricks and examples.
>>
>> If you want to get the best out of your VDF development tools then you
>> just have to look at what he has done in the new version of Quizmaster.
>>
>> VDF 2008.1 / 14.1 taken to the top, very nice work Nils, top notch
>> quality as always!
>>
>> --
>> Wil
>
>

Nils G. Svedmyr
26-Jan-2009, 04:32 PM
Oops,

I think that should have been "Hope it come in handy"

- Nils G.

"Nils G. Svedmyr" <nils.svedmyr@comhem.se> skrev i meddelandet
news:xseh9w$fJHA.2076@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Thank you - both of you.
>
> Hope it do come out handy.
>
> - Nils G.
>
> "Pieter van Dieren" <pieter.v.dieren@synerga.nl> skrev i meddelandet
> news:A9dU6W$fJHA.4384@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>> I totally agree with Wil! :-)
>> Thanks again Nils!
>>
>>
>> "Wil van Antwerpen" <info@antwise.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:$z4yBy0fJHA.2076@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>>> Nils,
>>>
>>> You are just too kind :)
>>>
>>> I can only say: Do check this out if you have a chance as it has again
>>> many new tricks and examples.
>>>
>>> If you want to get the best out of your VDF development tools then you
>>> just have to look at what he has done in the new version of Quizmaster.
>>>
>>> VDF 2008.1 / 14.1 taken to the top, very nice work Nils, top notch
>>> quality as always!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Wil
>>
>>

Peter van Mil
27-Jan-2009, 04:03 PM
Nils,

The new StartCenter in QMM is a very nice feature. I have in mind to use
it as a kind of "My Customer Today" screen. The latest news could be
published like this. (Nobody can tell that they didn't read it!)

About maintaining News.htm I have a general question. What is the best
solution for end users to maintain the News.htm? Do you generate this
html document from RTF (like before) or are you just using an HTML
editor? Or is Electos (FCKeditor) a prefered solution?

To be short: how do you use it?

Regards,

Peter van Mil


Nils G. Svedmyr schreef:
> Hi,
>
> The new version have many new features and most of them are listed
> below. The installation comes with the full source code and is
> absolutely Free!
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Here is the link:
> http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Nils G. Svedmyr
> RDC Tools International
>
> # A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most
> important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor of
> the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online "What's
> New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho Marx
> section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was removed
> from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start Center can
> also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The logo in the top
> righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the Visual DataFlex web
> site.
> # The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over the
> Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no internet
> connection is available, the html news file will be read from the
> harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available the news file
> will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an internet
> connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy of Allan Kim
> Eriksen.
> # The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the previously
> used start dialog was removed. The background image settings were moved
> to the first tab-page.
> # A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the
> General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and
> hit the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar
> checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and also
> provided a solution - Thank you.
> # The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view that
> has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with an
> asterisk (*) after the name.
> # An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and help
> video clips within the application. The Program Preference's panel
> contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an external
> browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
> # Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very easy to
> edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this purpose. See the
> Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
> # The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming effects.
> It means that the file size can be smaller while the part that is in
> focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very efficient and
> nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was used for the
> video clips. The buttons to start the clips on the Preference's panel
> were removed and can be found in the Help menu.
> # The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object are
> flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So the help
> menu contains http links to that server. This is a service that is
> provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
> # The video clips are still included and gets installed into subfolders of
> the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips instead of the
> online versions - all you need to do is to edit the links with the 'Edit
> Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to QMM's Help folder. Or you
> can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper Links view.
> # Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash
> plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
> # The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question view
> and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a
> dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner. The
> refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted
> side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view
> was in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
> # The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an internet
> link in the help document is provided. If clicked an internet page is
> displayed in the help program.
> # The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as well.
> The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used to
> create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template and then
> 'pour' the help project file into that template with a Merger program.
> Once the template is done the PDF is created with a few clicks.
> HelpMaker is the program that is used to create the html (.chm) Help
> file. The internet link in the PDF document also works just as in the
> html Help file.
> # The source for the help project is now also included in the installation
> program for the full source version. Also all html code and images for
> the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
> # It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path, just
> like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog function.
> Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the vWin32fh.pkg was used
> to display a dialog to select a folder from. However, it lacked the
> ability to set an initial path - meaning that the folder dialog would
> always start by showing all available drives on the computer. This
> function is used when a backup is going to be restored in the
> dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens pointing at QuzMaster's
> Data folder, where backups are usually contained in sub-folders. *
> Important! The BrowseDialog function relies on a callback dll that
> resides in QMM's programs folder - named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_
> deploy that .dll if you are going to use the BrowseDialog function.
> Courtesy of David Martinko and Wil van Antwerpen.
> # Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was
> displayed even if only one language had been selected from the property
> panel, after the program was re-started.
> # New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help and
> for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images were
> created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser object.
> And I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
> # The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been
> scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of Wil
> van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the
> machine running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
> # New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip
> Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added
>

Nils G. Svedmyr
27-Jan-2009, 07:34 PM
Hi Peter,

I use an HTML editor to edit it locally and when finished I upload it (in
QMM's case) to the server you can find from the "Edit Internet Hyper Links"
view, and there there are two keys used for the exact location where the
news html file is:

"HTTPRemoteHost" (www.oplocks.com) is the basic http remote host root
"RemoteNewsFile" (/QMM/News.htm) is the path and html page name on that
remote host.

I don't let anybody else edit the page by having the remote host password
protected.
The HTML editor I'm using is Microsoft Expression Web - which is probably a
big over-kill for what I'm doing. The reason using that editor was that I
"borrowed" the StartCenter.htm that comes with the VDF Studio and 'tweaked'
it to fit QMM's needs. Due to that the StartCenter in the VDF Studio and in
QMM is really an MS IE embedded object, some special coding that only MS IE
allows is being used - thus my reason for using the MS Expression Web -
because it doesn't complain of misbehaving HTML code ;-)

Better would probably be to start from scratch designing your own
StartCenter.htm and the accompanying other html pages it uses in any
standard HTML editor. I'm really no good at HTML coding so I took the easy
path...

BTW, if anybody do a construct in HTML code that is cleaner than the current
HTML implementation I would sure be glad to incorporate that solution
instead in QMM :-)

HTH.

- Nils G.

"Peter van Mil" <peter@appvantage.nl> skrev i meddelandet
news:TK3rrKMgJHA.5648@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Nils,
>
> The new StartCenter in QMM is a very nice feature. I have in mind to use
> it as a kind of "My Customer Today" screen. The latest news could be
> published like this. (Nobody can tell that they didn't read it!)
>
> About maintaining News.htm I have a general question. What is the best
> solution for end users to maintain the News.htm? Do you generate this html
> document from RTF (like before) or are you just using an HTML editor? Or
> is Electos (FCKeditor) a prefered solution?
>
> To be short: how do you use it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter van Mil
>
>
> Nils G. Svedmyr schreef:
>> Hi,
>> The new version have many new features and most of them are listed
>> below. The installation comes with the full source code and is absolutely
>> Free!
>> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>> Here is the link:
>> http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM
>> Enjoy!
>> Nils G. Svedmyr
>> RDC Tools International
>>
>> # A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most
>> important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor of
>> the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online "What's
>> New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho Marx
>> section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was removed
>> from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start Center can
>> also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The logo in the top
>> righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the Visual DataFlex web
>> site.
>> # The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over the
>> Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no internet
>> connection is available, the html news file will be read from the
>> harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available the news file
>> will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an internet
>> connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy of Allan Kim
>> Eriksen.
>> # The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the previously
>> used start dialog was removed. The background image settings were moved
>> to the first tab-page.
>> # A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the
>> General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and hit
>> the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar
>> checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and also
>> provided a solution - Thank you.
>> # The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view that
>> has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with an
>> asterisk (*) after the name.
>> # An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and
>> help video clips within the application. The Program Preference's panel
>> contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an external
>> browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
>> # Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very easy
>> to edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this purpose. See
>> the Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
>> # The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming effects.
>> It means that the file size can be smaller while the part that is in
>> focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very efficient and
>> nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was used for the video
>> clips. The buttons to start the clips on the Preference's panel were
>> removed and can be found in the Help menu.
>> # The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object are
>> flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So the help
>> menu contains http links to that server. This is a service that is
>> provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
>> # The video clips are still included and gets installed into subfolders
>> of the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips instead of the
>> online versions - all you need to do is to edit the links with the 'Edit
>> Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to QMM's Help folder. Or you
>> can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper Links view.
>> # Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash
>> plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
>> # The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question
>> view and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a
>> dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner. The
>> refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted
>> side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view was
>> in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
>> # The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an internet
>> link in the help document is provided. If clicked an internet page is
>> displayed in the help program.
>> # The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as well.
>> The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used to create
>> this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template and then 'pour'
>> the help project file into that template with a Merger program. Once the
>> template is done the PDF is created with a few clicks. HelpMaker is the
>> program that is used to create the html (.chm) Help file. The internet
>> link in the PDF document also works just as in the html Help file.
>> # The source for the help project is now also included in the
>> installation program for the full source version. Also all html code and
>> images for the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
>> # It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path, just
>> like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog function.
>> Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the vWin32fh.pkg was used
>> to display a dialog to select a folder from. However, it lacked the
>> ability to set an initial path - meaning that the folder dialog would
>> always start by showing all available drives on the computer. This
>> function is used when a backup is going to be restored in the
>> dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens pointing at QuzMaster's
>> Data folder, where backups are usually contained in sub-folders. *
>> Important! The BrowseDialog function relies on a callback dll that
>> resides in QMM's programs folder - named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_
>> deploy that .dll if you are going to use the BrowseDialog function.
>> Courtesy of David Martinko and Wil van Antwerpen.
>> # Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was
>> displayed even if only one language had been selected from the property
>> panel, after the program was re-started.
>> # New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help and
>> for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images were
>> created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser object. And
>> I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
>> # The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been
>> scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of Wil
>> van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the machine
>> running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
>> # New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip
>> Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added
>>

Peter van Mil
28-Jan-2009, 01:11 PM
Nils,

Thanks for your reply. I use CoffeeCup HTML editor and NotePad++. With
CoffeeCup it is possible to edit the HTML files viusually. But I was
just curious how you fixed it. I will have a fresh look now, and if I
have a better solution I will be back.

Regards,

Peter van Mil

Nils G. Svedmyr schreef:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I use an HTML editor to edit it locally and when finished I upload it
> (in QMM's case) to the server you can find from the "Edit Internet Hyper
> Links" view, and there there are two keys used for the exact location
> where the news html file is:
>
> "HTTPRemoteHost" (www.oplocks.com) is the basic http remote host root
> "RemoteNewsFile" (/QMM/News.htm) is the path and html page name on
> that remote host.
>
> I don't let anybody else edit the page by having the remote host
> password protected.
> The HTML editor I'm using is Microsoft Expression Web - which is
> probably a big over-kill for what I'm doing. The reason using that
> editor was that I "borrowed" the StartCenter.htm that comes with the VDF
> Studio and 'tweaked' it to fit QMM's needs. Due to that the StartCenter
> in the VDF Studio and in QMM is really an MS IE embedded object, some
> special coding that only MS IE allows is being used - thus my reason for
> using the MS Expression Web - because it doesn't complain of misbehaving
> HTML code ;-)
>
> Better would probably be to start from scratch designing your own
> StartCenter.htm and the accompanying other html pages it uses in any
> standard HTML editor. I'm really no good at HTML coding so I took the
> easy path...
>
> BTW, if anybody do a construct in HTML code that is cleaner than the
> current HTML implementation I would sure be glad to incorporate that
> solution instead in QMM :-)
>
> HTH.
>
> - Nils G.
>
> "Peter van Mil" <peter@appvantage.nl> skrev i meddelandet
> news:TK3rrKMgJHA.5648@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>> Nils,
>>
>> The new StartCenter in QMM is a very nice feature. I have in mind to
>> use it as a kind of "My Customer Today" screen. The latest news could
>> be published like this. (Nobody can tell that they didn't read it!)
>>
>> About maintaining News.htm I have a general question. What is the best
>> solution for end users to maintain the News.htm? Do you generate this
>> html document from RTF (like before) or are you just using an HTML
>> editor? Or is Electos (FCKeditor) a prefered solution?
>>
>> To be short: how do you use it?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter van Mil
>>
>>
>> Nils G. Svedmyr schreef:
>>> Hi,
>>> The new version have many new features and most of them are listed
>>> below. The installation comes with the full source code and is
>>> absolutely Free!
>>> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>>> Here is the link:
>>> http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM
>>> Enjoy!
>>> Nils G. Svedmyr
>>> RDC Tools International
>>>
>>> # A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most
>>> important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor
>>> of the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online
>>> "What's New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho
>>> Marx section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was
>>> removed from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start
>>> Center can also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The
>>> logo in the top righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the
>>> Visual DataFlex web site.
>>> # The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over
>>> the Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no
>>> internet connection is available, the html news file will be read
>>> from the harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available
>>> the news file will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an
>>> internet connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy
>>> of Allan Kim Eriksen.
>>> # The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the
>>> previously used start dialog was removed. The background image
>>> settings were moved to the first tab-page.
>>> # A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the
>>> General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and
>>> hit the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar
>>> checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and
>>> also provided a solution - Thank you.
>>> # The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view
>>> that has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with
>>> an asterisk (*) after the name.
>>> # An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and
>>> help video clips within the application. The Program Preference's
>>> panel contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an
>>> external browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
>>> # Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very
>>> easy to edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this
>>> purpose. See the Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
>>> # The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming
>>> effects. It means that the file size can be smaller while the part
>>> that is in focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very
>>> efficient and nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was
>>> used for the video clips. The buttons to start the clips on the
>>> Preference's panel were removed and can be found in the Help menu.
>>> # The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object
>>> are flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So
>>> the help menu contains http links to that server. This is a service
>>> that is provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
>>> # The video clips are still included and gets installed into
>>> subfolders of the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips
>>> instead of the online versions - all you need to do is to edit the
>>> links with the 'Edit Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to
>>> QMM's Help folder. Or you can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper
>>> Links view.
>>> # Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash
>>> plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
>>> # The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question
>>> view and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a
>>> dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner.
>>> The refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted
>>> side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view
>>> was in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
>>> # The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an
>>> internet link in the help document is provided. If clicked an
>>> internet page is displayed in the help program.
>>> # The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as
>>> well. The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used
>>> to create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template
>>> and then 'pour' the help project file into that template with a
>>> Merger program. Once the template is done the PDF is created with a
>>> few clicks. HelpMaker is the program that is used to create the html
>>> (.chm) Help file. The internet link in the PDF document also works
>>> just as in the html Help file.
>>> # The source for the help project is now also included in the
>>> installation program for the full source version. Also all html code
>>> and images for the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
>>> # It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path,
>>> just like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog
>>> function. Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the
>>> vWin32fh.pkg was used to display a dialog to select a folder from.
>>> However, it lacked the ability to set an initial path - meaning that
>>> the folder dialog would always start by showing all available drives
>>> on the computer. This function is used when a backup is going to be
>>> restored in the dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens
>>> pointing at QuzMaster's Data folder, where backups are usually
>>> contained in sub-folders. * Important! The BrowseDialog function
>>> relies on a callback dll that resides in QMM's programs folder -
>>> named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_ deploy that .dll if you are
>>> going to use the BrowseDialog function. Courtesy of David Martinko
>>> and Wil van Antwerpen.
>>> # Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was
>>> displayed even if only one language had been selected from the
>>> property panel, after the program was re-started.
>>> # New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help
>>> and for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images
>>> were created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser
>>> object. And I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
>>> # The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been
>>> scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of
>>> Wil van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the
>>> machine running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
>>> # New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip
>>> Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added
>>>

Nils G. Svedmyr
28-Jan-2009, 01:59 PM
Peter,

I tried the CoffeCup editor but got to many error messages that the code was
incorrect (which probably is correct ;-) ) The MS editor I use also have a
visual design mode.

I'm looking forward to your findings.

- Nils G.

"Peter van Mil" <peter@appvantage.nl> skrev i meddelandet
news:1WdhmPXgJHA.2076@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Nils,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I use CoffeeCup HTML editor and NotePad++. With
> CoffeeCup it is possible to edit the HTML files viusually. But I was just
> curious how you fixed it. I will have a fresh look now, and if I have a
> better solution I will be back.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter van Mil
>
> Nils G. Svedmyr schreef:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> I use an HTML editor to edit it locally and when finished I upload it (in
>> QMM's case) to the server you can find from the "Edit Internet Hyper
>> Links" view, and there there are two keys used for the exact location
>> where the news html file is:
>>
>> "HTTPRemoteHost" (www.oplocks.com) is the basic http remote host root
>> "RemoteNewsFile" (/QMM/News.htm) is the path and html page name on
>> that remote host.
>>
>> I don't let anybody else edit the page by having the remote host password
>> protected.
>> The HTML editor I'm using is Microsoft Expression Web - which is probably
>> a big over-kill for what I'm doing. The reason using that editor was that
>> I "borrowed" the StartCenter.htm that comes with the VDF Studio and
>> 'tweaked' it to fit QMM's needs. Due to that the StartCenter in the VDF
>> Studio and in QMM is really an MS IE embedded object, some special coding
>> that only MS IE allows is being used - thus my reason for using the MS
>> Expression Web - because it doesn't complain of misbehaving HTML code ;-)
>>
>> Better would probably be to start from scratch designing your own
>> StartCenter.htm and the accompanying other html pages it uses in any
>> standard HTML editor. I'm really no good at HTML coding so I took the
>> easy path...
>>
>> BTW, if anybody do a construct in HTML code that is cleaner than the
>> current HTML implementation I would sure be glad to incorporate that
>> solution instead in QMM :-)
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> - Nils G.
>>
>> "Peter van Mil" <peter@appvantage.nl> skrev i meddelandet
>> news:TK3rrKMgJHA.5648@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>>> Nils,
>>>
>>> The new StartCenter in QMM is a very nice feature. I have in mind to use
>>> it as a kind of "My Customer Today" screen. The latest news could be
>>> published like this. (Nobody can tell that they didn't read it!)
>>>
>>> About maintaining News.htm I have a general question. What is the best
>>> solution for end users to maintain the News.htm? Do you generate this
>>> html document from RTF (like before) or are you just using an HTML
>>> editor? Or is Electos (FCKeditor) a prefered solution?
>>>
>>> To be short: how do you use it?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Peter van Mil
>>>
>>>
>>> Nils G. Svedmyr schreef:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> The new version have many new features and most of them are listed
>>>> below. The installation comes with the full source code and is
>>>> absolutely Free!
>>>> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>>>> Here is the link:
>>>> http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM
>>>> Enjoy!
>>>> Nils G. Svedmyr
>>>> RDC Tools International
>>>>
>>>> # A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most
>>>> important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor of
>>>> the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online "What's
>>>> New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho Marx
>>>> section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was removed
>>>> from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start Center can
>>>> also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The logo in the top
>>>> righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the Visual DataFlex web
>>>> site.
>>>> # The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over
>>>> the Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no
>>>> internet connection is available, the html news file will be read from
>>>> the harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available the news
>>>> file will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an internet
>>>> connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy of Allan Kim
>>>> Eriksen.
>>>> # The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the
>>>> previously used start dialog was removed. The background image settings
>>>> were moved to the first tab-page.
>>>> # A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the
>>>> General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and
>>>> hit the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar
>>>> checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and also
>>>> provided a solution - Thank you.
>>>> # The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view
>>>> that has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with an
>>>> asterisk (*) after the name.
>>>> # An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and
>>>> help video clips within the application. The Program Preference's panel
>>>> contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an external
>>>> browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
>>>> # Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very easy
>>>> to edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this purpose. See
>>>> the Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
>>>> # The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming
>>>> effects. It means that the file size can be smaller while the part that
>>>> is in focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very
>>>> efficient and nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was
>>>> used for the video clips. The buttons to start the clips on the
>>>> Preference's panel were removed and can be found in the Help menu.
>>>> # The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object are
>>>> flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So the
>>>> help menu contains http links to that server. This is a service that
>>>> is provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
>>>> # The video clips are still included and gets installed into subfolders
>>>> of the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips instead of
>>>> the online versions - all you need to do is to edit the links with the
>>>> 'Edit Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to QMM's Help folder.
>>>> Or you can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper Links view.
>>>> # Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash
>>>> plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
>>>> # The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question
>>>> view and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a
>>>> dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner. The
>>>> refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted
>>>> side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view
>>>> was in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
>>>> # The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an
>>>> internet link in the help document is provided. If clicked an internet
>>>> page is displayed in the help program.
>>>> # The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as
>>>> well. The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used
>>>> to create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template and
>>>> then 'pour' the help project file into that template with a Merger
>>>> program. Once the template is done the PDF is created with a few
>>>> clicks. HelpMaker is the program that is used to create the html (.chm)
>>>> Help file. The internet link in the PDF document also works just as in
>>>> the html Help file.
>>>> # The source for the help project is now also included in the
>>>> installation program for the full source version. Also all html code
>>>> and images for the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
>>>> # It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path, just
>>>> like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog function.
>>>> Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the vWin32fh.pkg was used
>>>> to display a dialog to select a folder from. However, it lacked the
>>>> ability to set an initial path - meaning that the folder dialog would
>>>> always start by showing all available drives on the computer. This
>>>> function is used when a backup is going to be restored in the
>>>> dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens pointing at QuzMaster's
>>>> Data folder, where backups are usually contained in sub-folders. *
>>>> Important! The BrowseDialog function relies on a callback dll that
>>>> resides in QMM's programs folder - named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_
>>>> deploy that .dll if you are going to use the BrowseDialog function.
>>>> Courtesy of David Martinko and Wil van Antwerpen.
>>>> # Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was
>>>> displayed even if only one language had been selected from the property
>>>> panel, after the program was re-started.
>>>> # New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help
>>>> and for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images
>>>> were created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser
>>>> object. And I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
>>>> # The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been
>>>> scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of
>>>> Wil van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the
>>>> machine running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
>>>> # New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip
>>>> Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added
>>>>

wila
28-Jan-2009, 02:00 PM
Peter,

If you are looking for a Rich Text Html editor solution embedded in a
VDF application, then shoot me an email as I might have an answer for that.
--
Wil

Peter van Mil wrote:
> Nils,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I use CoffeeCup HTML editor and NotePad++. With
> CoffeeCup it is possible to edit the HTML files viusually. But I was
> just curious how you fixed it. I will have a fresh look now, and if I
> have a better solution I will be back.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter van Mil
>
> Nils G. Svedmyr schreef:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> I use an HTML editor to edit it locally and when finished I upload it
>> (in QMM's case) to the server you can find from the "Edit Internet
>> Hyper Links" view, and there there are two keys used for the exact
>> location where the news html file is:
>>
>> "HTTPRemoteHost" (www.oplocks.com) is the basic http remote host root
>> "RemoteNewsFile" (/QMM/News.htm) is the path and html page name on
>> that remote host.
>>
>> I don't let anybody else edit the page by having the remote host
>> password protected.
>> The HTML editor I'm using is Microsoft Expression Web - which is
>> probably a big over-kill for what I'm doing. The reason using that
>> editor was that I "borrowed" the StartCenter.htm that comes with the
>> VDF Studio and 'tweaked' it to fit QMM's needs. Due to that the
>> StartCenter in the VDF Studio and in QMM is really an MS IE embedded
>> object, some special coding that only MS IE allows is being used -
>> thus my reason for using the MS Expression Web - because it doesn't
>> complain of misbehaving HTML code ;-)
>>
>> Better would probably be to start from scratch designing your own
>> StartCenter.htm and the accompanying other html pages it uses in any
>> standard HTML editor. I'm really no good at HTML coding so I took the
>> easy path...
>>
>> BTW, if anybody do a construct in HTML code that is cleaner than the
>> current HTML implementation I would sure be glad to incorporate that
>> solution instead in QMM :-)
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>> - Nils G.
>>
>> "Peter van Mil" <peter@appvantage.nl> skrev i meddelandet
>> news:TK3rrKMgJHA.5648@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>>> Nils,
>>>
>>> The new StartCenter in QMM is a very nice feature. I have in mind to
>>> use it as a kind of "My Customer Today" screen. The latest news could
>>> be published like this. (Nobody can tell that they didn't read it!)
>>>
>>> About maintaining News.htm I have a general question. What is the
>>> best solution for end users to maintain the News.htm? Do you generate
>>> this html document from RTF (like before) or are you just using an
>>> HTML editor? Or is Electos (FCKeditor) a prefered solution?
>>>
>>> To be short: how do you use it?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Peter van Mil
>>>
>>>
>>> Nils G. Svedmyr schreef:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> The new version have many new features and most of them are listed
>>>> below. The installation comes with the full source code and is
>>>> absolutely Free!
>>>> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>>>> Here is the link:
>>>> http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM
>>>> Enjoy!
>>>> Nils G. Svedmyr
>>>> RDC Tools International
>>>>
>>>> # A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most
>>>> important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor
>>>> of the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online
>>>> "What's New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho
>>>> Marx section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was
>>>> removed from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start
>>>> Center can also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The
>>>> logo in the top righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the
>>>> Visual DataFlex web site.
>>>> # The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page
>>>> over the Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If
>>>> no internet connection is available, the html news file will be read
>>>> from the harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available
>>>> the news file will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an
>>>> internet connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy
>>>> of Allan Kim Eriksen.
>>>> # The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the
>>>> previously used start dialog was removed. The background image
>>>> settings were moved to the first tab-page.
>>>> # A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped
>>>> the General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a
>>>> change and hit the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and
>>>> status bar checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported
>>>> the bug and also provided a solution - Thank you.
>>>> # The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view
>>>> that has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with
>>>> an asterisk (*) after the name.
>>>> # An embedded browser was added to display internet link content
>>>> and help video clips within the application. The Program
>>>> Preference's panel contains a new comboform where the user can
>>>> select to use an external browser program instead. (Though this will
>>>> be much slower)
>>>> # Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very
>>>> easy to edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this
>>>> purpose. See the Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
>>>> # The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming
>>>> effects. It means that the file size can be smaller while the part
>>>> that is in focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very
>>>> efficient and nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was
>>>> used for the video clips. The buttons to start the clips on the
>>>> Preference's panel were removed and can be found in the Help menu.
>>>> # The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object
>>>> are flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So
>>>> the help menu contains http links to that server. This is a service
>>>> that is provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
>>>> # The video clips are still included and gets installed into
>>>> subfolders of the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips
>>>> instead of the online versions - all you need to do is to edit the
>>>> links with the 'Edit Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to
>>>> QMM's Help folder. Or you can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper
>>>> Links view.
>>>> # Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe
>>>> Flash plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
>>>> # The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the
>>>> Question view and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in
>>>> favor of a dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the
>>>> interface cleaner. The refresh message was also send to often which
>>>> gave some unwanted side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a
>>>> bug where if the view was in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
>>>> # The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an
>>>> internet link in the help document is provided. If clicked an
>>>> internet page is displayed in the help program.
>>>> # The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as
>>>> well. The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was
>>>> used to create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a
>>>> template and then 'pour' the help project file into that template
>>>> with a Merger program. Once the template is done the PDF is created
>>>> with a few clicks. HelpMaker is the program that is used to create
>>>> the html (.chm) Help file. The internet link in the PDF document
>>>> also works just as in the html Help file.
>>>> # The source for the help project is now also included in the
>>>> installation program for the full source version. Also all html code
>>>> and images for the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
>>>> # It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path,
>>>> just like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog
>>>> function. Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the
>>>> vWin32fh.pkg was used to display a dialog to select a folder from.
>>>> However, it lacked the ability to set an initial path - meaning that
>>>> the folder dialog would always start by showing all available drives
>>>> on the computer. This function is used when a backup is going to be
>>>> restored in the dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens
>>>> pointing at QuzMaster's Data folder, where backups are usually
>>>> contained in sub-folders. * Important! The BrowseDialog function
>>>> relies on a callback dll that resides in QMM's programs folder -
>>>> named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_ deploy that .dll if you are
>>>> going to use the BrowseDialog function. Courtesy of David Martinko
>>>> and Wil van Antwerpen.
>>>> # Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was
>>>> displayed even if only one language had been selected from the
>>>> property panel, after the program was re-started.
>>>> # New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help
>>>> and for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images
>>>> were created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser
>>>> object. And I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
>>>> # The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been
>>>> scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of
>>>> Wil van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if
>>>> the machine running the application is set to only 16-bits colors
>>>> depth.
>>>> # New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog
>>>> "Chip Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added
>>>>

Dave Robinson
29-Jan-2009, 11:17 AM
PMJI I recommend nVu as a html editor, or kompozer which is a fork/revival of that project.

Dave

Peter Crook
4-Feb-2009, 11:14 AM
Hi Nils

I've been having fun with skins and themes.
Line 1056 of Properties.dg should be:
#IIF (!@ >= 141)

(not #IFDEF).

Thanks for lots of interesting code and useful ideas!

Peter
"Nils G. Svedmyr" <nils.svedmyr@comhem.se> wrote in message news:%23%23hLih0fJHA.2072@dacmail.dataaccess.com.. .
Hi,

The new version have many new features and most of them are listed below. The installation comes with the full source code and is absolutely Free!

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Here is the link:
http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM

Enjoy!

Nils G. Svedmyr
RDC Tools International


a.. A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor of the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online "What's New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho Marx section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was removed from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start Center can also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The logo in the top righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the Visual DataFlex web site.
a.. The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over the Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no internet connection is available, the html news file will be read from the harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available the news file will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an internet connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy of Allan Kim Eriksen.
a.. The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the previously used start dialog was removed. The background image settings were moved to the first tab-page.
a.. A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and hit the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and also provided a solution - Thank you.
a.. The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view that has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with an asterisk (*) after the name.
a.. An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and help video clips within the application. The Program Preference's panel contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an external browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
a.. Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very easy to edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this purpose. See the Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
a.. The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming effects. It means that the file size can be smaller while the part that is in focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very efficient and nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was used for the video clips. The buttons to start the clips on the Preference's panel were removed and can be found in the Help menu.
a.. The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object are flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So the help menu contains http links to that server. This is a service that is provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
a.. The video clips are still included and gets installed into subfolders of the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips instead of the online versions - all you need to do is to edit the links with the 'Edit Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to QMM's Help folder. Or you can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper Links view.
a.. Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
a.. The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question view and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner. The refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view was in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
a.. The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an internet link in the help document is provided. If clicked an internet page is displayed in the help program.
a.. The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as well. The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used to create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template and then 'pour' the help project file into that template with a Merger program. Once the template is done the PDF is created with a few clicks. HelpMaker is the program that is used to create the html (.chm) Help file. The internet link in the PDF document also works just as in the html Help file.
a.. The source for the help project is now also included in the installation program for the full source version. Also all html code and images for the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
a.. It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path, just like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog function. Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the vWin32fh.pkg was used to display a dialog to select a folder from. However, it lacked the ability to set an initial path - meaning that the folder dialog would always start by showing all available drives on the computer. This function is used when a backup is going to be restored in the dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens pointing at QuzMaster's Data folder, where backups are usually contained in sub-folders. * Important! The BrowseDialog function relies on a callback dll that resides in QMM's programs folder - named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_ deploy that .dll if you are going to use the BrowseDialog function. Courtesy of David Martinko and Wil van Antwerpen.
a.. Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was displayed even if only one language had been selected from the property panel, after the program was re-started.
a.. New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help and for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images were created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser object. And I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
a.. The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of Wil van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the machine running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
a.. New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added

Nils G. Svedmyr
4-Feb-2009, 02:45 PM
Hi Peter,

#IIF you say, does that stand for "If and only If"? <vbg>

You're absolutely right that it is better coding practice and I will adjust
it.

Glad to hear you found it useful!

- Nils G.

"Peter Crook" <ancillasoftware@yahoo.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
news:mOmTfOuhJHA.2504@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Hi Nils
>
> I've been having fun with skins and themes.
> Line 1056 of Properties.dg should be:
> #IIF (!@ >= 141)
>
> (not #IFDEF).
>
> Thanks for lots of interesting code and useful ideas!
>
> Peter
> "Nils G. Svedmyr" <nils.svedmyr@comhem.se> wrote in message
> news:%23%23hLih0fJHA.2072@dacmail.dataaccess.com.. .
> Hi,
>
> The new version have many new features and most of them are listed below.
> The installation comes with the full source code and is absolutely Free!
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Here is the link:
> http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Nils G. Svedmyr
> RDC Tools International
>
>
> a.. A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most
> important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor of the
> new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online "What's New"
> section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho Marx section, with
> famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was removed from the About
> dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start Center can also be navigated
> with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The logo in the top righ-hand corner can
> be clicked to navigate to the Visual DataFlex web site.
> a.. The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over
> the Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no internet
> connection is available, the html news file will be read from the
> harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available the news file
> will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an internet connection
> is available the cPing class is used - courtesy of Allan Kim Eriksen.
> a.. The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the
> previously used start dialog was removed. The background image settings
> were moved to the first tab-page.
> a.. A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the
> General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and hit
> the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar
> checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and also
> provided a solution - Thank you.
> a.. The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view
> that has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with an
> asterisk (*) after the name.
> a.. An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and
> help video clips within the application. The Program Preference's panel
> contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an external
> browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
> a.. Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very easy
> to edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this purpose. See
> the Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
> a.. The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming
> effects. It means that the file size can be smaller while the part that is
> in focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very efficient and
> nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was used for the video
> clips. The buttons to start the clips on the Preference's panel were
> removed and can be found in the Help menu.
> a.. The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object are
> flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So the help
> menu contains http links to that server. This is a service that is
> provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
> a.. The video clips are still included and gets installed into subfolders
> of the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips instead of the
> online versions - all you need to do is to edit the links with the 'Edit
> Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to QMM's Help folder. Or you
> can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper Links view.
> a.. Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash
> plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
> a.. The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question
> view and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a
> dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner. The
> refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted
> side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view was
> in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
> a.. The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an
> internet link in the help document is provided. If clicked an internet
> page is displayed in the help program.
> a.. The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as
> well. The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used to
> create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template and then
> 'pour' the help project file into that template with a Merger program.
> Once the template is done the PDF is created with a few clicks. HelpMaker
> is the program that is used to create the html (.chm) Help file. The
> internet link in the PDF document also works just as in the html Help
> file.
> a.. The source for the help project is now also included in the
> installation program for the full source version. Also all html code and
> images for the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
> a.. It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path, just
> like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog function.
> Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the vWin32fh.pkg was used to
> display a dialog to select a folder from. However, it lacked the ability
> to set an initial path - meaning that the folder dialog would always start
> by showing all available drives on the computer. This function is used
> when a backup is going to be restored in the dbMaintenance.dg. The folder
> dialog now opens pointing at QuzMaster's Data folder, where backups are
> usually contained in sub-folders. * Important! The BrowseDialog function
> relies on a callback dll that resides in QMM's programs folder - named
> 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_ deploy that .dll if you are going to use
> the BrowseDialog function. Courtesy of David Martinko and Wil van
> Antwerpen.
> a.. Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was
> displayed even if only one language had been selected from the property
> panel, after the program was re-started.
> a.. New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help
> and for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images were
> created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser object. And
> I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
> a.. The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been
> scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of Wil
> van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the machine
> running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
> a.. New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip
> Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added
>
>

Nils G. Svedmyr
4-Feb-2009, 02:54 PM
Oops,

Reading the code I now see what you were saying - the code in QMM was
incorrect. It has now been corrected. Thanx.

- Nils G.

"Nils G. Svedmyr" <nils.svedmyr@comhem.se> skrev i meddelandet
news:3HvFcEwhJHA.4384@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> Hi Peter,
>
> #IIF you say, does that stand for "If and only If"? <vbg>
>
> You're absolutely right that it is better coding practice and I will
> adjust it.
>
> Glad to hear you found it useful!
>
> - Nils G.
>
> "Peter Crook" <ancillasoftware@yahoo.co.uk> skrev i meddelandet
> news:mOmTfOuhJHA.2504@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
>> Hi Nils
>>
>> I've been having fun with skins and themes.
>> Line 1056 of Properties.dg should be:
>> #IIF (!@ >= 141)
>>
>> (not #IFDEF).
>>
>> Thanks for lots of interesting code and useful ideas!
>>
>> Peter
>> "Nils G. Svedmyr" <nils.svedmyr@comhem.se> wrote in message
>> news:%23%23hLih0fJHA.2072@dacmail.dataaccess.com.. .
>> Hi,
>>
>> The new version have many new features and most of them are listed
>> below. The installation comes with the full source code and is absolutely
>> Free!
>>
>> Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> Here is the link:
>> http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMM
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Nils G. Svedmyr
>> RDC Tools International
>>
>>
>> a.. A Start Center was added where the user can select among the most
>> important program functions. The start dialog was scrapped in favor of
>> the new Start Center. The Start Center also contains an Online "What's
>> New" section. Below the What's New section there's a Groucho Marx
>> section, with famous quotes and dialogs. These two sections was removed
>> from the About dialog. In addition to the mouse - the Start Center can
>> also be navigated with the Tab and Shift+Tab keys. The logo in the top
>> righ-hand corner can be clicked to navigate to the Visual DataFlex web
>> site.
>> a.. The What's New is an Online resource that collects a html page over
>> the Internet to display the latest news in the StartCenter. If no
>> internet connection is available, the html news file will be read from
>> the harddisk. So each time an internet connection is available the news
>> file will get saved to the harddisk. To check if there's an internet
>> connection is available the cPing class is used - courtesy of Allan Kim
>> Eriksen.
>> a.. The properties on the Program's Property panel regarding the
>> previously used start dialog was removed. The background image settings
>> were moved to the first tab-page.
>> a.. A bug was fixed on the properties dialog - where if you swapped the
>> General tab-page to not be the first - recompiled - made a change and hit
>> the Apply button, the logic for the menu, toolbar and status bar
>> checkboxes were not correct. Hans van de Laar reported the bug and also
>> provided a solution - Thank you.
>> a.. The Window menu was changed in such a way that each activated view
>> that has been changed - and thus needs to be saved - is marked with an
>> asterisk (*) after the name.
>> a.. An embedded browser was added to display internet link content and
>> help video clips within the application. The Program Preference's panel
>> contains a new comboform where the user can select to use an external
>> browser program instead. (Though this will be much slower)
>> a.. Each html link has been saved to a database which make them very
>> easy to edit/update if necessary. A new view was added for this purpose.
>> See the Tools menu - Internet Hyper Links.
>> a.. The video help clips were updated. The new clips uses zooming
>> effects. It means that the file size can be smaller while the part that
>> is in focus always is readable as well as 'crystal' clear. Very efficient
>> and nice new feature of Camtasia Studio version 6 that was used for the
>> video clips. The buttons to start the clips on the Preference's panel
>> were removed and can be found in the Help menu.
>> a.. The video clips that are displayed in the internal browser object
>> are flash movies - and resides on a web server named Screencast. So the
>> help menu contains http links to that server. This is a service that is
>> provided by the same company that makes Camtasia Studio.
>> a.. The video clips are still included and gets installed into
>> subfolders of the project's Help folder. To use the disk video clips
>> instead of the online versions - all you need to do is to edit the links
>> with the 'Edit Hyper Links' view - and enter the full path to QMM's Help
>> folder. Or you can even drag & drop files onto the Hyper Links view.
>> a.. Links were added for installation of Acrobat Reader and Adobe Flash
>> plug-ins for Internet Explorer in the Help menu.
>> a.. The usage of the Refresh message to change the size of the Question
>> view and the language of Quiz Builder has been scrapped in favor of a
>> dedicated DoChangeLanguage message. It makes the interface cleaner. The
>> refresh message was also send to often which gave some unwanted
>> side-effects. The DoChangeLanguage also fixes a bug where if the view was
>> in zoom mode, it wouldn't resize properly.
>> a.. The html help has been updated and improved. An example of an
>> internet link in the help document is provided. If clicked an internet
>> page is displayed in the help program.
>> a.. The help is now available from the Help menu as a PDF document as
>> well. The HelpMaker's 'PDF Manual Designer' and 'PDF Merger' was used to
>> create this PDF document. In the Designer you format a template and then
>> 'pour' the help project file into that template with a Merger program.
>> Once the template is done the PDF is created with a few clicks. HelpMaker
>> is the program that is used to create the html (.chm) Help file. The
>> internet link in the PDF document also works just as in the html Help
>> file.
>> a.. The source for the help project is now also included in the
>> installation program for the full source version. Also all html code and
>> images for the Start Center is located under the Help folder.
>> a.. It is now possible to initialize the folder browser with a path,
>> just like an Open/Save dialog. This is done with the BrowseDialog
>> function. Previously the vSHBrowseForFolder function of the vWin32fh.pkg
>> was used to display a dialog to select a folder from. However, it lacked
>> the ability to set an initial path - meaning that the folder dialog would
>> always start by showing all available drives on the computer. This
>> function is used when a backup is going to be restored in the
>> dbMaintenance.dg. The folder dialog now opens pointing at QuzMaster's
>> Data folder, where backups are usually contained in sub-folders. *
>> Important! The BrowseDialog function relies on a callback dll that
>> resides in QMM's programs folder - named 'BrowseFolder.dll'. You _must_
>> deploy that .dll if you are going to use the BrowseDialog function.
>> Courtesy of David Martinko and Wil van Antwerpen.
>> a.. Fixed a bug where the language selection group in QuizBuilder was
>> displayed even if only one language had been selected from the property
>> panel, after the program was re-started.
>> a.. New icons for all search buttons, prompt, save, tools, about, help
>> and for the program itself - as well as new splash and about images were
>> created. And of course a set of new icons for the new browser object. And
>> I'm sure some more icons that I've forgotten about...
>> a.. The usage of the class Textbox to display 32-bits bitmaps has been
>> scrapped in favor of using the cvBitmapContainer class - courtesy of Wil
>> van Antwerpen. This makes the 32-bits bitmaps look OK even if the machine
>> running the application is set to only 16-bits colors depth.
>> a.. New Groucho quotes and a variant of the Marx Brother's dialog "Chip
>> Soup" called "The Marxist Theory of Computer Repair" was added
>>
>>

Peter Crook
1-Apr-2009, 07:04 AM
Hi Nils

Suggestion:

Properties.dg/oSkins_tp/Procedure Set Current_Item

Suggest this should be:


Procedure Set Current_Item Integer iItem
String sFile
tSkinInformation[] SkinsArray
Forward Set Current_Item to iItem
Get pSkins to SkinsArray
If (SizeOfArray(SkinsArray) > 0) Begin
If (iItem > 0) Decrement iItem // We have a 'None' item in the list but not in array.
Move (SkinsArray[iItem].sSkinFile) to sFile
End
End_Procedure // Set Current_Item



to prevent a run-time error if there are no skins!

Regards

Peter

Nils G. Svedmyr
3-Apr-2009, 06:18 AM
Hi Nils

Suggestion:

Properties.dg/oSkins_tp/Procedure Set Current_Item

Suggest this should be:


Procedure Set Current_Item Integer iItem
String sFile
tSkinInformation[] SkinsArray
Forward Set Current_Item to iItem
Get pSkins to SkinsArray
If (SizeOfArray(SkinsArray) > 0) Begin
If (iItem > 0) Decrement iItem // We have a 'None' item in the list but not in array.
Move (SkinsArray[iItem].sSkinFile) to sFile
End
End_Procedure // Set Current_Item



to prevent a run-time error if there are no skins!

Regards

Peter

Hi Peter,

Consider it done - Your suggestion has been implemented.

Thanks for the feedback - very much appreciated :)

- Nils G.

isaiasms
24-Apr-2009, 02:21 PM
Hi, could you help me? I'm enjoy a lot this librery... but I'm having problems when I use Dbform_AutoComplete with fields type Ascii which it belong to index with two segments, like this...

index 3 = name_customer (ascii 90), id_customer (numeric 12)

- My database is SQL Express and I'm using the dataflex drive
- code:

Set AutoComplete_Index to Index.3
Send Add_Display_Column (oCustomer_DD(Self)) File_Field Customer.name_customer 200
Send Add_Display_Column (oCustomer_DD(Self)) File_Field Customer.ID_Customer 0

Procedure Accepted
Get Integer_Value of oAux_Value item 1 to Customer.ID_Customer
Send Find of oCustomer_DD EQ 1
End_Procedure // Accepted

- error:
Generic error: 42000 (8114)--[Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server] Error converting data type varchar to numeric. Table = Customer (17)


Thanks,
Isaias

Nils G. Svedmyr
26-Apr-2009, 11:35 PM
Isaias,

I would suggest that you start a new thread and put AutoComplete or Dbform_AutoComplete in the title. That way David Martinko who wrote the code will probably read your message and can assist you.

Regards,
Nils G. Svedmyr

isaiasms
18-May-2009, 09:25 AM
Hi Nils,

Thanks for your suggest,

Isaias M Silva

isaiasms
18-May-2009, 09:37 AM
Hi,

Can I use Dbform_AutoComplete into dbModalPanel? Because when I type into the field, I can’t choose one of them. Is it possible to use??

Regards,

Isaias M Silva

Yannis
17-Jun-2014, 02:07 AM
Hi,
I know this is a quite old thread but the link for the last version in VDF Guidance seems to be broken.
Any chance someone could either renew it or give me a download link available perhaps somewhere else.

Thank you in advance
Yannis

Nils G. Svedmyr
17-Jun-2014, 04:26 AM
Hi Yannis,

I know that Wil who owns vdf-guidance has recently replaced his internet provider and moved to another datacenter. That is probably why the link didn't work.

However, here is a link that should work:
http://www.rdctools.com/qmm/Downloads/SetupQuizMasterManager2012.exe


Cheers

Yannis
17-Jun-2014, 04:55 AM
Hi Yannis,

I know that Wil who owns vdf-guidance has recently replaced his internet provider and moved to another datacenter. That is probably why the link didn't work.

However, here is a link that should work:
http://www.rdctools.com/qmm/Downloads/SetupQuizMasterManager2012.exe


Cheers

Hello Nils,
Thank you for getting back to me and for the 2012 version link.
However, I am looking for the QM2009.3 update (QMM2009.3 source (http://www.oplocks.com/QMM/QuizMasterManagerSource2009.3.0.0.zip) ~ 85Mb), the last version available with the source code from this page: http://www.vdf-guidance.com/Projects.asp?Page=QMMDOWNLOAD

Nils G. Svedmyr
17-Jun-2014, 07:32 AM
Ah, I see.

Please try this link:
http://www.rdctools.com/qmm/Updates/QuizMasterManagerSource2009.3.0.0.EXE
(http://www.rdctools.com/qmm/Updates/QuizMasterManagerSource2009.3.0.0.EXE)

Sture
17-Jun-2014, 07:42 AM
Hi Nils,

While we're at it, you once did something impressive with calendars and national holidays. Is that also still available somewhere?

-Sture

Garret Mott
17-Jun-2014, 07:58 AM
Here you go!

http://support.dataaccess.com/Forums/showthread.php?44443-Holiday-dates-function-Library-and-database-with-all-Nations-characteristics-incl-flags&highlight=National+holidays

Nils is going to have to learn how to make a good looking interface :) :p

Yannis
17-Jun-2014, 08:18 AM
Ah, I see.

Please try this link:
http://www.rdctools.com/qmm/Updates/QuizMasterManagerSource2009.3.0.0.EXE
(http://www.rdctools.com/qmm/Updates/QuizMasterManagerSource2009.3.0.0.EXE)

Thank you very much Nils

Yannis

Nils G. Svedmyr
17-Jun-2014, 01:05 PM
Thanks Garret - I think! :p

Nils G. Svedmyr
17-Jun-2014, 01:06 PM
You're welcome.

Enjoy!

Nils G. Svedmyr
17-Jun-2014, 01:10 PM
Yannis,

I believe there is a much more recent update to the source code. If you're interested here's a link:

http://www.rdctools.com/Downloads/QMMFullSource.zip

Not an installation program but rather a zip file with the full workspace.

Nils G. Svedmyr
17-Jun-2014, 01:21 PM
Hi Sture,

Garret is correct and provided the correct download link. But beware that during that time there wasn't any interest from anyone in Denmark. This means there is no ready-made date function library made for Danish holidays. But there are plenty of samples in other languages so you should be able to cook something together quite easy.

Cheers

wila
17-Jun-2014, 03:18 PM
Hi,


Hi Yannis,
I know that Wil who owns vdf-guidance has recently replaced his internet provider and moved to another datacenter. That is probably why the link didn't work.
Nope, the link was pointing to an old mirror server of mine. Still got the domain, but there's no data on it anymore, forgot about the mirrored data when I retired that server many moons ago. Have now fixed the link to download from vdf-guidance site itself.

For the curious..

The data center (DC) where I still rent a rack has been merged with a larger telecom company in Holland. As a result of the merger the DC stops providing colocation services and renting out racks to instead use the DC for their new parent company. They asked me to relocate to another DC.
So currently am renting 2 racks (ugh) while moving all my servers during the month. All with pretty much no down time (secret sauce is virtual machines) just lock down on writes for a couple of hours while the DNS records propagate after booting up a cloned VM at DC2.

And all that just after moving me, myself and my wife from Thailand to Holland.. busy busy ;) and having fun.

Cheers guys, let me know if there's any more broken links and I'll try to fix them.
--
Wil

DaveR
17-Jun-2014, 04:16 PM
Thailand lost its charm? That's summer 2015 bucket-list

wila
17-Jun-2014, 04:38 PM
Hey Dave,

Haha, no Thailand is wonderful. Nothing changed there, the land of smiles, great culture, brilliant food.

There's many reasons we are in Holland now. Think of things like being closer to family, it is also easier running your own company down here.
Besides that the wife wants to see snow (I told her that it ain't all that great, but she still wants to see it)

We will be in Thailand again soon, but in that case for holidays.
Can't wait, I do not need a bucket list for that :)

Nils G. Svedmyr
18-Jun-2014, 02:47 AM
Hi Wil,

My bad, thanks for letting us know! :)