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Limit input length API and other useful APIs

 
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FreezingFire
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 10:40 pm    Post subject: Limit input length API and other useful APIs Reply with quote

I never knew about this API tip and it could have saved me a lot of time
in the past.

Here's a quick example which will allow you to limit the lenth of user input
in edit boxes without using extra coding:

Code:
REM ** Example by FreezingFire (freezingfire@vdsworld.com)
  DIALOG CREATE,Edit Box Example,-1,0,188,72,NOMIN
  DIALOG ADD,EDIT,EDIT1,8,8,170,19
  DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Close,38,58,64,24,Close
  DIALOG SHOW

%%len = 2
%x = @sendmsg(~EDIT1,$00C5,%%len,0)

:evloop
wait event
goto @event()

:close
exit


For more APIs like this, click the link below:
http://www.vdsworld.com/~freezingfire/api.html

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Used the Wayback Time Machine?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 4:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep. Wink

I just found that a few days ago and it's interesting to refresh one's
memory on how the internet looked years ago...

I've actually also used this to find old VDS sites like the VDS Programmer's Guild
and find the pages on VDS that were there and gone before I even
got a chance to look at them.

Link: http://web.archive.org/

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you, thank you, thank you FF!!! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem... I liked the limit input length the best because before I knew
about it, I was looping through a timer and cutting the length if it went
over. Now it is much more stable. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 4:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same here... you've made my life a lot easier and I thank you! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The api handbook in the registered users section at dialogscript.com has tons of these api's. You should download it and check out some of the great api's available to vds.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the tip PG! The API messages are one thing I always seem to forget about... Embarassed
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Prakash for reminding me!

I had entirely forgotten about that since I re-installed Windows on my
computer and wiped everything off. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm... looks like SADE needs to recompile the setup with the newer
version of V-Setup -- I'm getting that OLEAUT32.DLL error again:


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the help file can still be fished out of the c:\windows\temp directory, as vsetup extracts all files to a sub-directory in there (I think _vsetup).
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PGWARE wrote:
The api handbook in the registered users section at dialogscript.com has tons of these api's. You should download it and check out some of the great api's available to vds.


I cant find this on the new re-vamped site? Has it been moved?

Cheers
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're not the only one. Look here:

http://forum.vdsworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=1692

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Dread! Very Happy

I am fairly new to VDS, in fact all scripting/programming but the ability to call API's seems very powerful and also pretty interesting. Looking forward to the updated registered users area.

Cheers Razz
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