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Recent content by harebrain
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Does Microsoft call you?
Thanks, guys! Just another case of "If it sounds to good to be true...- harebrain
- Post #4
- Forum: Virus/Spyware discussion
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Does Microsoft call you?
Yesterday, a guy claiming to be from Microsoft called me on my cell phone. (He had an Indian accent, so that's plausible.) He said that there was a virus on my laptop (I have 3 laptops) and he wanted to walk me through fixing it. I told him I was at work and couldn't get to "my laptop," so he...- harebrain
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- Forum: Virus/Spyware discussion
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VB6 and UTF-8
Thanks, I'm going to remember this thread. I had seen the Spolsky article and was also amused by the deprecation of EBCDIC: the job I had before this one--we used PL/1. Gag. For now we're going to survive on faith: we don't think we're going to see any > 127 data, so we're going to pretend...- harebrain
- Post #6
- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
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VB6 and UTF-8
Thanks, Mike, that confirms what I already know and clarifies a bit of the mystery. (No pun intended.) Our legacy system is happy, old, "PC ASCII": numerals, upper- and lowercase letters, some punctuation. Now we have a new instrument that is producing UTF-8 files. It leads off files with a...- harebrain
- Post #3
- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
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VB6 and UTF-8
It seems as though we flogged this subject to death years ago, but I'm hesitant to rely on the ten-year-old threads I found that are, at best, ambiguous. So here we go again: Is there a straightforward way to handle UTF-8 files with VB6? I think my challenge in the end will be to read UTF-8...- harebrain
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- Replies: 5
- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
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CTRL+C \ CTRL+V functionality and Delphi 2010
Those are from the old CUA keymap. There's probably a property in the edit class you were using that enables CUA keys or Win keys or both. This crops up a lot when you need to prevent the user from pasting into a field: you have to disable CTRL-V, SHIFT-INS, and the context menu's Paste using...- harebrain
- Post #5
- Forum: Embarcadero: Delphi
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What is Windows doing when it's not doing anything ?
Check the Logitech Web site to see if you really need those apps and driver. I have an older cordless mouse, and I installed the driver for it. Ran into performance issues similar to yours. Hidden away in the Logitech site was a notice that my mouse model was supported by the Windows 7...- harebrain
- Post #9
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Loop Counter starting with maxamum value not 1
As for the other mystery, when you write a "for" loop incrementing from 1 to a maximum value, whenever your loop counter isn't involved in a calculation that might somehow affect the loop's execution, Delphi converts the loop to start at the maximum value and decrement to 1 (or whatever the...- harebrain
- Post #4
- Forum: Embarcadero: Delphi
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Unusual XML file
The problem with the OP's provider is that they don't know the difference between tags and values. That is definitely not well-formed XML; it's not even close. It looks like what they should be doing is something like this: <root> <hashtable> <unknown>6</unknown> </hashtable>... -
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Windows Photo Gallery - Damaged or Corrupted
I think Windows Photo Gallery is "damaged by design." Would it be possible for your users to download and use Windows Live Photo Gallery? It's a more ambitious and better application.- harebrain
- Post #2
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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IE9? or not? Just yet anyway
Some websites that employ older technologies (or old versions) don't work in out-of-the-box IE9. IE9 has a "compatibility mode" that makes those sites work--it's not always so pretty in "compatibility mode," but it will work. I use IE9 and I like it.- harebrain
- Post #6
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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How to create new element if node value is too large.
Why would you need to do that? Presumably, there is something that would make the <note> item "too big." What is that? And why would you duplicate the entire <thread> node when you could put multiple <note> items within a <thread>? -
Newbie
XML is a mark-up language: it's a data file that includes the context of the data. XML is not a programming language: it doesn't DO anything. You have VB.NET as a programming language and your data is stored in a SQL Server database. Presumably your job is to perform a mail-merge. If your... -
Basic XML Question
Excel is not a particularly simple way to create an XML file. It takes more steps than doing it directly. If your data is coming from a database, you can probably export it directly as an XML file. Otherwise, if you're comfortable using any programming language to read and write files, it...
