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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 3:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No prob Smile we all started somewhere and alot of these things are really hard to locate within the helpfile if there even there Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very very true Smile

Nice site you got there PGWARE Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 3:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

His site sucks! He needs to upload his new design, but he's being too lazy!

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

heeh yeah the site does suck, the original design (pokes Garrett) did such a shotty job. Wink Getting the site ready with the new product versions which will be launched next month Smile
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robert, the templates on this site are made to help people to use things, like errortrapping, in an easy way. It also makes sure that your script will run on every Windows OS, no matter which language is used. Some people forget to use things like that, and discover it 'the hard way'...
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm, must admit I haven't given that much thought Embarassed

So, do you guys have any tips for me? I use latin character set on my computers, how can I make sure everything works nomatter what character set the user uses.

And about the OS version, what are the issues there?

I nice emtpy template with the most needed things would be greatly appriciated Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I recommend using the OPTION SCALE and OPTION DECIMALSEP
commands (they're explained in the help file). Here's what I usually
start programs with:

OPTION SCALE, 96
OPTION DECIMALSEP, "."
TITLE By Mac


Cheers, Mac Smile

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've added the DECIMALSEP, 'cause I saw myself what happens there Smile
But it says in the manual that it uses 96 % by default in scaling in 4.5. So, do I need to specify it then?

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm... good question.

The VDS3 help file says:
The value in <pixels-per-inch> should be the same value given by @SYSINFO(PIXPERIN) on the system on which the dialog was designed

I specify it since a lot of my code is posted here, and I never
know what someone else's settings are (mine's 96)... Wink

However, if the user has a different/strange theme, I think the
SCALE settings go out the window anyway. Confused

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just read the part in the helpfile alittle closer and your right.
If the user has a different font then Small Fonts then it might get a weird look.

So I guess I'll use the OPTION SCALE, 96 in my template as well Wink

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes you should always use option scale,96 and also define a STYLE with a text size,font name and apply that style to all controls. That way if someone runs your program on their computer and they are using large fonts it wont distort your program and make text run off the dialog or misalign everything. The only thing that will change is that the titlebar will become larger but all other parts of the dialog will remain untouched.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, good advice.
Thanks again PGWARE Wink

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2003 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"BTW. Where is that Array label for???"

Dangnabit frig and frackit! I can't believe I overlooked that question considering the power of that subroutine and the frequency of which I use it!

In Visual Basic there is a function called "split" which creates a new variable array taking a string and parsing by delimiter. This does the same thing!

Basically, you don't have to know the size of your array before you create it, unlike the parse command.

Take a variable like this:

Code:

option fieldsep,"|"
%%split = Great|Days|Happen
%%array = arrGreatDays
gosub array


Then it processes through the array gosub
Code:

:Array
if @null(%%array)
exit
else
end
dialog add,list,%%array,0,0,0,0
list clear,%%array
repeat
parse "%a;%b",%%split
%%remainder = @substr(%%split,@sum(@len(%a),2),@len(%%split))
if %a
list add,%%array,%a
%%split = %%remainder
end
until @null(%a)
exit


The list "arrGreatDays" which is used as a variable array now contains
Code:

Great
Days
Happen


When your done with "arrGreatDays" it must be removed else the code won't work two times within your program.
Code:

dialog remove,arrGreatDays


I hope that explains it...

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