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RE: Setting >1 Page Orientation in PDFs
by Gene Wirchenko 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

At 00:48 2016-11-17, Dave Crozier <DaveC(a)Flexipol.co.uk> wrote: >Fineprint PDF writer does it all automatically plus much, much more >and is not expensive. How do you do it with Fineprint, please? I have code that I think ought to work. It does set the orientation correctly for the first time the orientation is set in a print job. It does not work for subsequent orientation settings in a print job. It fails the same way with two different PDF generators. It is quite possible that I am doing something wrong. (No one has replied with a correct way of how to do it, but that does not guarantee I am correct. (I wish.)) I would rather not get mixed up with yet another PDF generator without a reasonable assurance that it will work. (Besides, the company I am working for already uses Bullzip in other areas.) And maybe seeing your code will give me an idea. [snipped previous] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: define class xx twice
by Gene Wirchenko 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

At 15:31 2016-11-18, "Fernando D. Bozzo" <fdbozzo(a)gmail.com> wrote: [snip] >"do someproc in locationx" or "NewObject" does not use nothing "in memory", >because they load from the indicated resource directly, hence, does not >apply, You do not know that. You are guessing. It may be a perfectly reasonable guess, but it is still just a guess. How VFP decides to cache code is nothing I have seen documented. I have occasionally gotten into trouble with this to the point where I have simply closed VFP and restarted it, because I could not get the cache dropped. This includes using clear program. A bug in VFP? Maybe. A bug in my code? Quite possibly. But I have been unable to clear the cache short of closing VFP. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: define class xx twice
by Gene Wirchenko 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

At 00:57 2016-11-18, "Fernando D. Bozzo" <fdbozzo(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Yes, this is the same behaviour as for procedures, the last defined or >loaded overwrites the previous. Maybe. It is undefined behaviour so you can not count on it being one way or the other. >This is because there can't be more than one procedure/class with the same >name on memoty at the same time. A questionable assumption. What about do someproc in locationa do someproc in locationb Since it is not defined exactly what VFP stores in memory codewise, it is not impossible that both could be. >In the case of classes you can use NewObject to select from which library >instantiate a class definition, but for multiple objects this is more >slower than createobject. Having been bit by a duplicate method name some months back, I think there really should be a compiler error message for duplicates. [snipped previous] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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RE: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives
by Gene Wirchenko 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

At 05:01 2016-11-18, Dave Crozier <DaveC(a)Flexipol.co.uk> wrote: >CTRL/ALT and if I remember correctly on the plus version it was both >shift keys together... > >These along with Wordstar control keys are indelibly engrained in my brain! > >How sad is that! Not sad at all. The WordStar keys are very useful. I use a WordStar-compatible editor for my programming. IME, no GUI editor has ever compared faintly as well for general programming editing. [snipped previous] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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define class xx twice
by Thierry Nivelet 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Hi, Just to be sure, would this behavior always be true wherever both DEFINE CLASS are located? dupClassTest = CreateObject('dupClassTest') ? dupClassTest.dupClassTest && 'duplicate' DEFINE CLASS dupClassTest as Custom dupClassTest = 'original' enddefine DEFINE CLASS dupClassTest as Custom dupClassTest = 'duplicate' enddefine -- Thierry Nivelet FoxInCloud Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud http://foxincloud.com/

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Re: Guess the problem? VFP9, HyperV, 2012R2
by Paul Hill 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Broadcom network card by any chance? If so, you need to disable virtual machine queues in the network driver properties. Took me AGES to find this issue. On 17 Nov 2016 4:21 pm, "Ted Roche" <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > A former client from way back when emailed me with a brief question on > > "running VFP 9 on a server with HyperV and Windows Server 2012R2." > They are migrating an existing app from Server 2003 and he says on the > new machine, "it runs like a dog" and I'm guessing he doesn't mean > greyhound. > > With this lack of clues, has anyone got a shot-in-the-dark guess what > might be going wrong? > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Guess the problem? VFP9, HyperV, 2012R2
by Ted Roche 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

A former client from way back when emailed me with a brief question on "running VFP 9 on a server with HyperV and Windows Server 2012R2." They are migrating an existing app from Server 2003 and he says on the new machine, "it runs like a dog" and I'm guessing he doesn't mean greyhound. With this lack of clues, has anyone got a shot-in-the-dark guess what might be going wrong? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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Beautify
by Wes Wilson 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Is there a way to run a prg through BEAUTIFY without bringing up Tools->Beautify? e.g. BEAUTIFY anyprogram.prg Wes Wilson, President ERW Custom Programming, Inc. Crescent Lake Plaza 5459 Elizabeth Lake Rd. Waterford, MI 48327 (248) 683-4182 LinkedIn Profile "Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it" Philip Kotler www.erw.com weswilson(a)erw.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Setting >1 Page Orientation in PDFs
by Gene Wirchenko 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Hello: One of the print options for my client billing app is to PDF file. I wrote the code for use with Adobe's Adobe PDF printer driver. It works mostly. I am now looking at switching to Bullzip. It works mostly. I would like to get rid of the "mostly". The problem I have is with printer orientation. I can set the orientation at the beginning of the print job to either portrait or landscape. That works just fine. What I can not do is change the orientation midjob. This problem exists with both Adobe PDF and Bullzip. Any later change to the orientation during the print job is ignored. To set the orientation, I first close printer, use a .frx with the appropriate orientation, and then do a =sys(1037,3). When printing to a physical printer, there is no problem: the orientation changes. Please note that I generate my output with set printer on and ?. Switching to .frt/.frx is not a viable option. The reason that I want this is because some PDFs should contain more than one report. (Some invoices should also have a transaction report following them.) Fortunately, I currently do not have a need to have these combined print job PDFs contain both portrait and landscape pages, but it would be nice to have in case it is ever needed. And it does not seem it should be so difficult. What am I doing wrong, or is it impossible? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

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