Recent content by ColinGregory

Hello Just teaching myself webservices . . . Can somebody please help me out and answer the following. I'm trying to access a free webservice which publishes movie times for your area. I've created the proxy ok in VWD Express 2008. The following code appears in my reference.cs file. What I...

Hi everyone Can anybody think of a quick way to detect whether the full version of Acrobat 7 is installed on a PC rather then just the reader? Many thanks Colin

Thanks tuco7 and wolluf prnmngr is exactly the sort of thing I was after. However, it doesn't appear to run on W2K. At the prompt I've been typing in "prnmngr -g" (quotes omitted) and getting "prnmngr not recognized as an internal or external command". Am I just rubbish at typing or is there...

Hi electronicsfreak I just knew that I would mess up the question . . . More details I'm writing a subroutine in an application (LabWare LIMS)which has its own language (LIMS Basic). What I need to do is check that the default printer is a colour printer. There is no command in LIMS Basic...

Hi everyone Sorry - don't know anything at all about W2K. Is there a command or something I could use to find the name of the printer set as default on a users PC. Thanks in advance Colin

Hi everyone I'm just creating my first pdf form . . . Is it possible to have a field which would display the number of times a document has been printed? Many thanks for any pointers

Hi every one Has anyone got a procedure/check/script that they do to confirm that W2K Server has been installed correctly? Thanks in advance Colin

Totally spot on. Thanks for the speedy replies lads. Colin

Hi Everyone, I have a text type field which may contain one or more carriage returns. Is there a way to search the field and only select those records which contain two or more carriage returns? I've trawled the archive and BOL with no luck. Any pointers much appreciated. Many thanks Colin

Hello everyone Is this possible? I have a string in my report header (eg "452,563,1256") that I want to pass to a subreport as a set of numeric values that I can use to select the details of my subreport. The number of values in the string may change. I've been working on this for two days...

LB and Madawc, Thanks very much for taking the time out to reply - much appreciated. Here comes the dreaded follow up question with further details... The initial set of sample numbers will be sent in from an external application (LabWare LIMS)so I don't need any user selection parameters...

Hi everyone I would be v grateful if someone could get me started on this. What I want to do is to create a multi page report (actually more of a form than a report) which will have the same details repeated over more than one page eg Page 1 Details sample number 1 sample number 2 sample...

Thanks Simon I'll be swatting up over the weekend. Colin

Newbie alert!! I'm hoping that someone can start me off in the right direction for this one... What I want to do is have a user input data via an html form. When submit is clicked the inputted data is sent as part of a SQL query which returns an xml file. I would like to display the results...

Newbie alert!! I'm hoping that someone can start me off in the right direction for this one... What I want to do is have a user input data via an html form. When submit is clicked the inputted data is sent as part of a SQL query which returns an xml file. I would like to display the results...