[Gambas-user] IDE bug: Click on text > cursor wrong position

2008-10-04 Thread richard terry
Version 1603. Much improved, however one problem. ONe cannot click at the start of the line, which can make copy and paste difficult. Regards Richard - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's c

[Gambas-user] Need help understanding svn

2008-10-04 Thread richard terry
I wondered how to interpret this as my svn won't update. svn: Aborting commit: '/home/richard/coding/gambas2/trunk/.settings' remains in conflict Regards Richard - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Dev

Re: [Gambas-user] Html versus RTF format in TextEdit

2008-10-13 Thread richard terry
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 08:52:56 jbskaggs wrote: > In Gambas 2.5 I could not get .rtf files from Abi or Openoffice to load > into Textedit properly. But TextEdit loads HTML very nicely. > > Am I to assume that for rich text editing we are to use to HTML/XML format > and not the *.rtf format gen

Re: [Gambas-user] TextEdit

2008-10-17 Thread richard terry
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:17:31 am Almanova Sistemi wrote: > Hi All, > > I try to use TextEdit and when I press Return key, I get a blank line > after the current line. > This not happen with Editor, but I need TextEdit because I must change > some attibutes of the text. > > How I can do this? > > Tha

[Gambas-user] Draw Editor Dosn't Draw Circle AnyMore

2008-10-23 Thread richard terry
Just noticed my app stopped being able to draw circles, so I checked the draw editor and it dosn't either, but the square still works ?why ?any ideas Regards Richard - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [Gambas-user] Draw Editor Dosn't Draw Circle AnyMore

2008-10-23 Thread richard terry
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:10:03 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > On vendredi 24 octobre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > Just noticed my app stopped being able to draw circles, so I checked the > > draw editor and it dosn't either, but the square still works ?why ?any >

[Gambas-user] Draw Editor Dosn't Draw Circle AnyMore

2008-10-27 Thread richard terry
Hi, Benoit, I wondered if you have verified this is a bug - still not working on 1653. Regards Richard - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applicatio

Re: [Gambas-user] Draw Editor Dosn't Draw Circle AnyMore

2008-10-30 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:10:28 pm Benoit Minisini wrote: > On samedi 25 octobre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:10:03 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > > > On vendredi 24 octobre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > > > Just noticed my app stopped being able

Re: [Gambas-user] Feature request

2008-11-09 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:09:10 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > On dimanche 9 novembre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > I've mentioned this one before, wondered if Benoit could give it > > consideration. > > > > Request: Option on the popup menu over the tab for 'Se

Re: [Gambas-user] Feature request

2008-11-10 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:01:44 am Benoit Minisini wrote: Thanks, can you let me (the list) know when its there. Regards Richard > On lundi 10 novembre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:09:10 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > > > On dimanche 9 novembre 2008, r

[Gambas-user] Ease of maintaining Gambas3 on an ARCH LINUX BOX

2008-11-10 Thread richard terry
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Re: [Gambas-user] Feature request

2008-11-10 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:26:01 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > On lundi 10 novembre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:01:44 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > > Thanks, can you let me (the list) know when its there. > > > > Regards > > > > Richard >

[Gambas-user] Startup now on menu - thanks

2008-11-11 Thread richard terry
Thanks Benoit, works a treat and saves much hunting and scrolling. Regards Richard - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK &

Re: [Gambas-user] Draw Editor Dosn't Draw Circle AnyMore

2008-11-12 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:10:28 pm Benoit Minisini wrote: > On samedi 25 octobre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:10:03 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > > > On vendredi 24 octobre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > > > Just noticed my app stopped being able

[Gambas-user] lib Poppler Problem

2008-11-12 Thread richard terry
I just upgraded my system and now have no /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.3, but this file /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.4, so Gambas won't run (at least the pdf module) despite a routine re-compile using 1703 I guess I can symlink, but wondered if this is my machine problem or if the pdf component of gambas

[Gambas-user] Signal 11 with wrong syntax 1703

2008-11-17 Thread richard terry
I put in this typo not remembering the item key was a string -> signall 11 crash. Str(lvwLabRequests.Item.key + 1) Regards Richard - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coo

[Gambas-user] Editor Bug in line numbering

2008-11-23 Thread richard terry
1710 (and before) When you paste/align in the editor and have lin-numbers 4 digits, the line numbers and any text in the editor overlap see the piccie. Regards Richard <>- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your

Re: [Gambas-user] Editor Bug in line numbering

2008-11-24 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:07:52 pm you wrote: > On lundi 24 novembre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > 1710 (and before) > > > > When you paste/align in the editor and have lin-numbers 4 digits, the > > line numbers and any text in the editor overlap > > > &

Re: [Gambas-user] Creating a Gambas component

2008-11-24 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:33:39 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't suppose that when You've got a this working you could write a tutorial on it for everyone could you?, I tried to make a control and failed miserably. regards Richard > I have created a Gambas 2 project that contains some user co

[Gambas-user] Tracking down Signal 11's

2008-11-24 Thread richard terry
I wondered if there was a method of tracking down a signal 11 when one really hasn't much clue where to start eg. may happen only on closing a form. Regards Richard - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [Gambas-user] Tracking down Signal 11's

2008-11-24 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:47:54 am you wrote: > On lundi 24 novembre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > I wondered if there was a method of tracking down a signal 11 when one > > really hasn't much clue where to start eg. may happen only on closing a > > form. > > >

[Gambas-user] Libtool and gambas compilation

2008-11-24 Thread richard terry
The help page states this: This package was done with the following versions of GNU tools: * automake 1.9.4 * autoconf 2.59 * libtool 1.5.12 Apparently, Gambas does not compile with libtool >= 2.0. However my libtool is this: libtool 2.2.6a-1 And it compiles fine, so mayb

[Gambas-user] Charts and Graphing

2008-11-26 Thread richard terry
I wondered what the status of the Chart component was. I only have one old email Fabien wrote in reply to a question on this back in April. Is it being actively developed. Does anyone have experience/code in simple graphing. My program can now save things like downloaded hl7 pathology results,

[Gambas-user] Chart component - error messages

2008-11-26 Thread richard terry
Whilst attempting to use this class I get: '_Caxes' class is missing Also help (both local and on the web site) seems to be missing. file:///usr/share/gambas3/help/help/comp/gb+chart/chart/type.html Any help appreciated. Richard

Re: [Gambas-user] Chart component - error messages

2008-11-27 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:12:10 pm you wrote: Hi Fabian, thanks for the information and looking forward to the time when it is more complete. However, the link below seems invalid. Could you check and post me the correct one. Regards Ricard > Ok i've send a complete demo of the gb.chart capabili

Re: [Gambas-user] Chart component - error messages

2008-11-27 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:12:10 pm you wrote: Ah, sorry, you just forgot the fullstop after www. Got the file. Regards Richard > Ok i've send a complete demo of the gb.chart capabilities... > > http://wwwgambasforge.net/datas/codes/chartsdemo-0.0.1.tar.gz > > Regards, > Fabien Bodard > > 2008/11/27

Re: [Gambas-user] Chart component - error messages

2008-11-27 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:12:10 pm you wrote: Ok, now getting the same error I described in a previous email - CAxes class missing, see the piccie. Regards Richard > Ok i've send a complete demo of the gb.chart capabilities... > > http://wwwgambasforge.net/datas/codes/chartsdemo-0.0.1.tar.gz > >

Re: [Gambas-user] Using a socket to download an image. Please Help ^_^

2008-11-30 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 06:50:06 am Robert Moss wrote: Robert this may not be much help to you and I'm not sure how related to your problem it is, but just on the off chance. I struggled with saving a picture and retrieving from a postgres field. The code I included worked really well for a long t

Re: [Gambas-user] Ideas needed ?how to track down corruption of png file

2008-12-01 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:25:10 am you wrote: > On lundi 1 décembre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > I've mentioned recently that my re-loading of images from postgres back > > into my program is failing - the images seem to save correctly but on > > retrieving them they f

Re: [Gambas-user] Coordinate system in Gambas Graphics

2008-12-03 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:05:22 am Charles Capaday wrote: Fabians chart component may or may not help. I'll mail you some piccies of what it can do off list. Regards Richard > I'm interested in developing a graph object in Gambas to plot points, > curves etc. Are there language statements for coord

[Gambas-user] Reproducable Bug in IDE search routine

2008-12-06 Thread richard terry
Build 1721. Quite specific, but reproducable. When find previous is unable to find another occurence of the search string, and the search in subroutine button is depressed, it stays in an endless loop with the busy cursor on the screen. The gambas process must be killed to extricate. To repli

[Gambas-user] File read question LineInput Question

2008-12-06 Thread richard terry
I have files, could be thousands of lines, but the start/end lines are like this: FHS|^~\&|APOLLO|NATA^2178^N|||200811101339+1100||dhm0003.ORU||3 FTS|1|3  I wondered what the rectangle represents I guess must be some sort of byte count??, and how to get rid of it as I process the file. My

Re: [Gambas-user] GAMBAS Suggestions

2008-12-07 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:27:53 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gambas Community, > > I find it curious that such a great piece of software doesn't have a better > updated website and a bug/tracking system. I think the problem is it's such great software and so rewarding to use that we all just beaver

[Gambas-user] Toolpanel foreground font - can't change colour

2008-12-07 Thread richard terry
There seems no way to change the font colour of this control, the foreground property changes the body of the control itself, not the text on the little bars. Regards richard -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, Marc

[Gambas-user] Wish list for a tooltip feature

2008-12-13 Thread richard terry
I wondered if there would be any way or perhaps future feature to be able to set the tooltip font/size? Reason being that in some circumstances the font size is quite large compared to ones underlying control/design. Regards Richard

Re: [Gambas-user] Wish list for a tooltip feature

2008-12-14 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:04:58 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > On dimanche 14 décembre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:39:51 pm you wrote: > > > On dimanche 14 décembre 2008, richard terry wrote: > > > > I wondered if there would be any way o

[Gambas-user] 1755 build failed! (sob sob) gambas3

2008-12-29 Thread richard terry
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[5]: *** [gb.qt.kde.html.la] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/richard/gambas3-svn/src/trunk/gb.qt.kde/src/html' make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/richard/gambas3-svn/src/trunk/gb.

Re: [Gambas-user] 1755 build failed! (sob sob) gambas3

2008-12-31 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:43:04 pm David Paleino wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:33:54 +1100, richard terry wrote: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt > > Do you have qt3 headers installed? > > On Debian (and -like) systems it would be "libqt3-mt-dev". > > Jus

Re: [Gambas-user] 1755 build failed! (sob sob) gambas3

2008-12-31 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:43:04 pm David Paleino wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:33:54 +1100, richard terry wrote: > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt > > Do you have qt3 headers installed? > > On Debian (and -like) systems it would be "libqt3-mt-dev". > > Jus

Re: [Gambas-user] 1755 build failed! (Solved sort of)

2009-01-03 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:33:02 am richard terry wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:43:04 pm David Paleino wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:33:54 +1100, richard terry wrote: > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt-mt > > > > Do you have qt3 headers installed? > > > &

[Gambas-user] Lets all chip in for a beginner code project

2009-01-04 Thread richard terry
As I blunder along finding out how to do simple things, it strikes me these questions are asked over and over again on the list by beginners. Though lots of people can read the doc's and figure out how to do these things, absolute beginners can't and this puts them off programming. Most exampl

[Gambas-user] More odd IDE problems

2009-01-04 Thread richard terry
This one is really weird, I enclose the pictures, but have not been able to reproduce it reliably. Something changed a character in the Form definition of a couple of forms, replacing an integer in Spacing = 2 to Spacing = T on all the occurrences in the form definition. What I'd done is this:

[Gambas-user] Unkown Symbol Bottom in Class Tabstrip 1784

2009-01-04 Thread richard terry
Note previous post Re-built again and this is the result. This time it would be nice to get some advice how to fix this/reason, etc, without having to re-do my tap strips. Regards Richard -- __

[Gambas-user] Void key on Forms Update

2009-01-05 Thread richard terry
Benoit, Had two forms on the update with this error message. BTW will read the changelog today, didn't know I had to do this. Regards Richard <>-- ___ Gambas-user mailing list

Re: [Gambas-user] Void key on Forms Update - sample crashed form

2009-01-05 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 08:25:19 am richard terry wrote: > Benoit, > > Had two forms on the update with this error message. > BTW will read the changelog today, didn't know I had to do this. > > Regards > > Richard There are two forms which fail to load in 1784 (1788 itse

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas Vs. Gnome 2.24

2009-01-06 Thread richard terry
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:08:57 am Jussi Lahtinen wrote: > > I cannot compile the dev version for versions incompatibility of libtool. > > I will try to compile it when I will solve this issue. > > Have I understand correctly... You compiled 2.10.2 successfully with > libtool >= 2.0, > possibly with

Re: [Gambas-user] align item center form

2009-01-06 Thread richard terry
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 02:39:28 pm kobolds wrote: > where is the align item to center of the form . I see align left ,right, > bottom and top but couldn't find align vertical center and align > horizontal center . What are you trying to align where? Sounds like you should be putting something insize

Re: [Gambas-user] align item center form

2009-01-07 Thread richard terry
easier design paradigm than gambas uses. Again, as I said, send me a screen dump of what you want it to look like from your previous language and I'll see what I can do. Regards Richard > > Shawn McCuan wrote: > > richard terry wrote: > >> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 02:39:28 pm

[Gambas-user] Badly Overridden form

2009-01-07 Thread richard terry
Mm Last couple of upgrades one of my forms won't load - despite being structurally similar to all the others, I get the error message in the picture. Any ideas appreciated. Version 1790 and a few below. Regards Richard <>---

Re: [Gambas-user] Grideditor

2009-01-11 Thread richard terry
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:02:07 pm Gareth Bult wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, me ... If you noted my previous post on us all contributing to simple code examples, perhaps you could write us a tutorial? Maybe benoit can come up with a simple frame work we can put these examples in and it can be included with

[Gambas-user] Save as ?not working

2009-01-11 Thread richard terry
Tried to save the project as another name > nowhere to type in the new name (build 75) -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. ht

Re: [Gambas-user] Datepicker bug

2009-01-13 Thread richard terry
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:50:41 am Benoit Minisini wrote: Thanks Fernandez/Benoit for detecting/fixing that. Its driven me crazy for days trying to find why my automated database setup program wouldn't run any more with that error. I'd tried pulling everything of the wizard control by control to

Re: [Gambas-user] Badly Overridden form (Solved)

2009-01-14 Thread richard terry
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:08:18 am Benoit Minisini wrote: > On mercredi 7 janvier 2009, richard terry wrote: > > Mm > > > > Last couple of upgrades one of my forms won't load - despite being > > structurally similar to all the others, I get the

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas2 components?

2009-01-14 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:36:17 am dave L wrote: > Fair enough! > > only reason i picked postgresql over mysql was the old enie menine miney > mo. Catch a ... by the tail choice and i end up pointing at postgres :) Don't quote me but I think I remember reading on slashdot in the last couple of month

[Gambas-user] Spacing = True Question

2009-01-15 Thread richard terry
Wonder if someone could clarify this for me. Previously spacing was (and the documention in the IDE still says it is) the number of pixels separating child controls. If this is so, how does one give this a value? Personally I think using spacing like this is a backwards step for gambas. This l

[Gambas-user] Linking ones own subroutines to a gambas like wiki

2009-01-17 Thread richard terry
I keep separate text files in my project to describe my forms. As I was working today I thought, "wouldn't it be nice if I could hit the F1 key over my routines and bring up a wiki, like you can if you hit F1 or F2 over the gambas keywords. I wondered if this would be possible to set up? eg,

[Gambas-user] Help files for your gambas program - How do you do it

2009-01-17 Thread richard terry
Wondered about any pointers for generating (searchable) help files for your gambas program. Regards richard -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.ne

[Gambas-user] Whilst on the topic of string functions

2009-01-18 Thread richard terry
Could I add to the wish list string functions to do these things. * Strip duplicated blanks from within a string eg. john Doe becomes: john Doe * Upper case only the first letter of a sentance or all words eg. john doe becomes John Doe (useful in entering names) I

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas & PostgreSQL cannot create index. relation XXX does not exist.

2009-01-22 Thread richard terry
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:01:15 am Randy wrote: > Hello. > > New to Gambas and having problems with following code: > > STATIC PUBLIC FUNCTION CreateGLTables() > > DIM hTable AS Table > > hTable = Global.$hConn.Tables.Add("glcoa") > WITH hTable > .Fields.Add("company", db.String, 3) > .F

[Gambas-user] Help with converting text in field to number

2009-01-26 Thread richard terry
As a prefix to this post all contuctive criticism of my flaws/poor logic etc here welcomed (with open arms!). I hope this is not too confusing, which it is likely to be as I don't really know what I'm doing, so its hard to explain, but in essence: I've a table containing my lab results which is

[Gambas-user] What happened to the back button in IDE

2009-01-28 Thread richard terry
noticed its been missing for quite a while, I used to find it quite handy to navigate around the IDE. Regards Richard -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http

[Gambas-user] pdf's no longer rendering

2009-02-01 Thread richard terry
I've noticed this for a number of versions (currently using 1838) Unknown symbol 'get picture' in class pdfpage > dies, the demo is the same. Regards richard <>-- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community

[Gambas-user] Some file/use or progress bar questions.

2009-02-02 Thread richard terry
1) I have a file with some 30,000 lines, but I want to know how many lines are in the file before I do anything to it - is this possible. I couldn't see how just looking at the syntax for files. 2) Given that I could figure out how many lines, I wondered if someone could give me some tips on h

[Gambas-user] Speed penalty to write to textbox or label

2009-02-02 Thread richard terry
I wondered if one or the other was slowest? I'm importing probably hundreds of thousands of records into my program, for example 30,000 + pathology, 20,000 + referral or recall letters, and so as to keep myself amused and follow what is happening I write a little something to the screen. I won

Re: [Gambas-user] Help with converting text in field to number

2009-02-02 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 06:45:14 am werner 007 wrote: > Hello Richard > > For me it looks you want use "Group By" instead Unions in SQL to get the > Resultset like > > > xaxes-text|count|display_order > > --- > > 5-6 5 1 > > 6-7

Re: [Gambas-user] Some file/use or progress bar questions.

2009-02-03 Thread richard terry
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 04:07:01 am werner 007 wrote: > Hi Richard > > Maybe you put the file in a array with split() if it makes sense for > further work. > Dont know how slow it is on such big files, but i made no bad experience > with around 1 lines. > > Regards, Werner(007) Thanks, will try all

Re: [Gambas-user] Ask about key.enter and key.return

2009-02-04 Thread richard terry
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:12:49 pm Leo Sendra wrote: > Hi all, > > What is the different between key.enter and key.return? > I have a trouble in my application. > When I use key.return, the enter button near a number pad (num lock part) > is not function as well. I don't know what happen with this. > I

[Gambas-user] ComboBox returning wrong index

2009-02-05 Thread richard terry
Build 1844. ComboBox.Add (gb.qt) Syntax SUB Add ( Item AS String [ , Index AS Integer ] ) Inserts an element in the popup list box. One would assume the following: 1) Don't provide an index Gambas sets 0,1,2 etc 2) Do provide an index you should be able to set index to what you want I've n

[Gambas-user] Weird IDE in versions > 1844

2009-02-05 Thread richard terry
Hi benoit, wondered what was happening with the IDE, all the versions after 1844 have stuff misssing or look funny. The ide seems to be GTK rather than its usual appearance, the properties option on the menu dosn't work, and the components can't be checked/unchecked. Easy to revert, which I do

[Gambas-user] Mysql comments - may interest some users

2009-02-05 Thread richard terry
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/05/2024257 "Michael 'Monty' Widenius, the original developer of the open-source MySQL database, has left Sun Microsystems and is starting his own company, Monty Program Ab, he said in a blog post Thursday. Widenius and Sun had a slightly rocky

[Gambas-user] How to detect Capslock

2009-02-07 Thread richard terry
I wondered how one could detect if the capslock key was on. Any help appreciated. Richard -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use

[Gambas-user] Cutn Paste Feature Request in IDE

2009-02-14 Thread richard terry
Hi There, Probably like most of us I do a staggering amount of cutn paste, and not infrequently use the Paste Special, and within that the paste as string and paste as comment. Two things. Firstnly, now that the user configurable buttons can be dropped on the toolbar (thanks for explaining th

[Gambas-user] Help with some parsing

2009-02-16 Thread richard terry
I'm importing some old data from windows. The data is exported from msAccess97 and some of the text fields have a carriage return of some sort in the middle. The same character seems to be used by access as the end of line for each record, so when I try and import it, I'm getting a truncated lin

Re: [Gambas-user] Help with some parsing

2009-02-17 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:55:10 pm you wrote: > >>So my quesitoni is 'how to discover what the character is ?chr$(10)(13) > >>and how to eliminate those before parsing. > > CHR$(10) & CHR$(13) - carriage return & line feed > Those are special "command" character from the "stone age" of the > informati

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas 2 -> Gambas 3

2009-02-17 Thread richard terry
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:42:09 pm Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Benoît Minisini schrieb: > >> Good morning Benoit (and everyone) > >> > >> Just came about a question: When I want to bring my Gambas2 app to > >> Gambas3, will this be as roundabout as it is from Gambas1 to Gambas2? > >> (Creating new for

Re: [Gambas-user] Filename as string

2009-02-17 Thread richard terry
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:30:43 am FoxIII wrote: > I am very new to Gambas (and programming in general). I am trying to > retrieve a filename as string from fileview so I can display it on the > screen, but do not seem to be able to manage it. I know this may sound a > bit of a simple request, but for

Re: [Gambas-user] Filename as string

2009-02-18 Thread richard terry
re just trying to popup a file dialog and retrieve a path you can do this: If Dialog.OpenFile() Then Return Print Dialog.path or Textbox1.text = Dialog.path Richard > > richard terry-5 wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:30:43 am FoxIII wrote: > >> I am very new to Gambas (

Re: [Gambas-user] Setting properties in a group

2009-02-20 Thread richard terry
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:15:25 pm Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > Hi all, > > I have several buttons on a form, generated using the GUI, not though > code. Say their names are "Button1", "Button2" etc - a lot of them. > > First, I wanted to share an event handler for all the buttons. I did > this putt

[Gambas-user] EOF character seems not to work

2009-02-24 Thread richard terry
I need to write an array of lines to a file, each ending in the EOL char for MAC, I used this code, it dosn't work, it ends up with the UNIX EOL. I must have my syntax wrong somehow: Dim hfile As file hfile.EndOfLine = gb.Mac Open sFilename For Write Create As #hfile For Each si

[Gambas-user] Probable bug in Postgres db driver

2009-02-25 Thread richard terry
I've posted about this before in regards to the PictureDatabase example, as in postgres though you can save the picture, it dosn't retreive. I had asked someone to test it, though no-one appears to have had the time. This driver is pretty critical to my medical records project, as I used to be

[Gambas-user] What's the Margin property of vertical box Do

2009-02-25 Thread richard terry
?? Never noticed it there before, and no help available. REgards richard -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the En

[Gambas-user] help with data import into postgres - funny characters> import fails

2009-02-26 Thread richard terry
Hi , I'm trying to import the hl7 from a local radiology provider: It's got funny characters in the file and postgres baulks when I go to save the line with the message attatched, but it basically says - invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8. My postgres database is created with UTF8 encoding

Re: [Gambas-user] Making an image button launch an executable?

2009-03-01 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 06:06:17 pm Marc Carson wrote: > I'm just starting to learn Gambas and I'd like to know how to make an > image-button launch an executable or a Bash script. I'd like to make a > grid of buttons that I can customize in this way, each button with its > own icon, sort of like how la

Re: [Gambas-user] segfault on PDF

2009-03-05 Thread richard terry
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:17:10 am Benoît Minisini wrote: > > Currently the gambas PDF viewer segfaults when loading this PDF. > > The PDF probably has a corrupted index, but I think gambas could deal > > with more gracefully (by not displaying the index, but still the pages of > > the PDF) which is wh

[Gambas-user] Feature Request

2009-03-08 Thread richard terry
Benoit, Thanks for previous buttons for the pastes, are you going to amalgamate these to a single button with drop down list as I suggested like in kmail? This would leave room for my next request. I've dozens of forms, too many to be able to see without scrolling up and down. As my project is

[Gambas-user] Global Error Handing

2009-03-08 Thread richard terry
Question: Does gambas have any mechanism for global error handling -e.g error rigging an entire project including all subroutines with a master error handler, which would catch all un-handled fatal errors, and do something like pop up a dialog box with options for user to type in what they were

Re: [Gambas-user] GTK problems

2009-03-08 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 01:14:11 pm Steven Drinnan wrote: > Hi all, > > I am developing a student management system. Up till now I have been > using QT. But in reading the licensing decided I need to switch to GTK > components. I thought the revised licence was quite liberal? regards Richard > But

[Gambas-user] Menu and toobutton question

2009-03-09 Thread richard terry
I think I've missed this, but can if one uses the same group name in a menu and for the toolbuttons, and the same tag in both, can you just use the group_click event to execute the same code? Regards Richard -- ___

[Gambas-user] Centering a dialog on a parent

2009-03-09 Thread richard terry
Is this possible to change:. If the main form is 'off centre' of the screen, the dialog itself pops up in the centre of the screen, instead of the centre of the parent. regards richard -- ___

Re: [Gambas-user] HTML in Text Label

2009-03-11 Thread richard terry
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:57:39 am Jason Hackney wrote: > I'm trying to insert some basic HTML into a text label and from the docs, > "" should work, but it displays the text align=center>. Meanwhile , , etc. seems to work well. Also, > TextLabel1.alignment = 3 has the result I want. Am I missing so

Re: [Gambas-user] Combo box

2009-03-12 Thread richard terry
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:46:05 am Jeff wrote: > Hi All, > First post, so forgive me newbie-ness. > > If I use the add method to add rows to a combo box I specify an index: > Eg: > ComboBoxProjects.Add("ZZ", 0) > ComboBoxProjects.Add("AA", 1) > > Then in a button click event I use the index property t

Re: [Gambas-user] Gambas and Aspell

2009-03-12 Thread richard terry
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:34:57 am jbskaggs wrote: > Could someone post me an example of using apsell with an textedit box? > > I asume I would save a tmp file run aspell and then reload the changed > file. > > but when I try and call aspell from shell I get weird errors. > > Does anyone have experien

Re: [Gambas-user] database updates with "&" in personname field

2009-03-12 Thread richard terry
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:08:34 pm Bruce wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am having a lot of trouble with this. > > I am trying to update a "temporary" table, say "tmp" in postgresql on a > name matching basis using the gb.db.form databrowser control. Essentially > I have a little app where the user opts to a

Re: [Gambas-user] Feature Request

2009-03-14 Thread richard terry
o type in what you wanted - isn't this d more steps for the user? If Benoit would allow slightly large non-standard icons and someone with a modicum of graphic art skills, then something like these I've quickly knocked up in kicon_edit could be used. Regards Richard >>>&g

[Gambas-user] Changing text on Tabstrip

2009-03-15 Thread richard terry
If one has say three tabs tab1 tab2 tab3 and the contents of Tab1 are showing. Is it possible to change the text on either tab2 or 3 without the display changing. If one does : tabstrip1.index = 2 and tabstrip1.text = "sometext" Then this has the same effect as a tabstrip1_click()

Re: [Gambas-user] Changing text on Tabstrip

2009-03-15 Thread richard terry
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:38:15 am Richard Gladman wrote: > richard terry wrote: > > If one has say three tabs > > > > tab1 tab2 tab3 > > > > and the contents of Tab1 are showing. > > > > Is it possible to change the text on either tab2 or 3 wit

Re: [Gambas-user] Child Forms

2009-03-17 Thread richard terry
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:48:55 pm rwatt...@woh.rr.com wrote: > I am running version 2.11. I installed from source on my Ubuntu 8.10 > computer. I have gone in and enables gb.qt and gb.qt.ext in the Components > section under Project Properties. I do not see anywhere that shows a > control for a workp

[Gambas-user] pdf control suggestion

2009-03-20 Thread richard terry
I just noticed their is no selection tool as in say kpdf, don't know how hard that would be to put in, just a suggestion, as i went to use it in the pdf control I'd put into my program and noticed it wasn't there. Regards Richard

[Gambas-user] Printing direct to printer

2009-03-24 Thread richard terry
I wondered if anyone could show me how to print direct to a printer at co-ordinates x-y I have to a sheet divided into four sections (not quarters), the top two are 2/3 of the page height, and I need to print to exactly specifica locations on an A4 page. Any help appreciated. Richard ---

Re: [Gambas-user] Problem with gambas..

2009-03-26 Thread richard terry
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:13:27 pm Carlos Humberto Llumiquinga Hidalgo wrote: > Hi Dimitris... the folder exist.. and the spell is correctly... that was > the first what I checked.. > By the way it's not empty... > > 2009/3/26 Dimitris Anogiatis > > > You either are trying to delete a folder that doe

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