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  1. colttaylor

    Multi-User Issue (also posted in VB.NET forum)

    I've taken over development of a Vs2003(vB)/MsSql2000 application which usually runs in on a Windows 2000 server with multiple workstations running the application simultaneously in Remote Desktop Sessions. The central user interface element of the application is an un-databound grid (actually...
  2. colttaylor

    Outlook Express Messages Stuck in Outbox - Help!

    I have a customer who uses outlook express (6.00.2600.0000) on WinXP SP2 with Windows Updates active and all current updates installed. The customer uses email almost exclusively to forward jokes and funny pictures that he received in his inbox, to multiple friends. He does not yet know about...
  3. colttaylor

    BeginDoc from a Service

    I've written a NT Service in Delphi 5 which receives directory change notification messages for an empty directory. Whenever a file gets created in that directory, my service reads it into a stringlist, formats it and then tries to print it. Everything is working up to the "print it" part...
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    Sending one print job to two printers

    Hi everyone, A customer of mine has asked that my point of sale software print its' end of day (x/z) reports out to a local report printer and simultaneously to a network shared printer at a remotely located company headquarters. I'm posting this to find out if this kind of action can be...
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    Need a silent midi file

    I've been asked to put an off button on the website to turn off the bgsound music which is currently a rather soft, lengthy midi piece. I have learned how to do it in javascript but it requires an empty midi file; one that plays no music. I do not know how to create (or where to find) such a...
  6. colttaylor

    Porting data aware component up from Delphi 2

    I've been assigned the task of porting a Delphi 2.0 application to Delphi 5.0. The application relies on a great number of data aware components, but fortunately I have the source code to almost all of them. The first component I am trying to port upward has a private variable of type...
  7. colttaylor

    Make Epson TM88III make a noise

    Anybody know if there are control codes to make an Epson TM88III Thermal receipt printer ring a bell or make some noise? I have installed it as a hot/cold kitchen printer in a rather noisy kitchen and nobody can hear when the "silent" thermal prints. Orders go uncooked until somebody notices...
  8. colttaylor

    Get filepath & filename of activeX component on target machine.

    I just spent nine days debugging a perfectly healthy program which suffered from... (you guessed it...) a mis-registered activex control. My version of the control was happily waiting for my program in my \SHARED directory and some other software's incompatable version of the control was hidden...
  9. colttaylor

    GPA 9.0 "Too Many Users"

    A customer of mine has the pervasive version of Great Plains Accounting version 9.0 running on his NT4.0 network. The GPSUSERS.BAT batch file reports that he has 47 active users, even though no one is currently in the software and the network has been rebooted multiple times. When he tries to...
  10. colttaylor

    Flushing Flash Memory Disks Programmatically

    I have started using the thumb-sized flash memory drives as a resource for backing up my program's data files. Currently, I copy my data files to the drive and then ask the user to right-click on the little icon at the bottom of the screen and choose "Unplug or Eject Hardware", then follow the...
  11. colttaylor

    moving to a new laptop

    Anybody know what file contains the design packages which show up on the project options window at menu option COMPONENTS/INSTALL PACKAGES in Delphi 5? I've copied over my components directories and installed Delphi 5 on my new laptop, but I'd like to skip re-installing every component I've ever...
  12. colttaylor

    shell dos window w/o title bar?

    I have a dos program which I launch from my VB 6.0 application using SHELL. When I do this, the dos program comes up in a reasonable size window in the middle of the screen and the user effectively runs the program via the keyboard. My problem is that when the users are done running the...
  13. colttaylor

    Application Block - Data - SQL Count Function

    I'm using Microsoft's data-access application block and I would like a faster (more resource friendly) method of getting the count of active records in a table. Here is a rough sketch of what I am currently doing... Public Function get_company_count() As Integer get_company_count = 0 Dim...
  14. colttaylor

    webbrowser scrolling?

    I'm trying to write a touch screen web browser to serve on an intranet with very low-tech users. Basically, I have created a webbrowser control with three buttons to the right of it, labelled UP, HOME and DOWN. The home button is easy, just reload the starting page with a call to navigate...
  15. colttaylor

    Send email on pageload

    I am trying to replace a NetObjects Fusion created website with one that I can take care of in Frontpage. The one unique function which the site currently has, that I cannot figure out how to duplicate is... Whenever someone surfs to the intro page, the owner of the company gets an email...
  16. colttaylor

    descriptive dbcombobox for enumerated integer fields?

    I have an application which tracks customer support events such as phone-calls, bug-reports, faxes, etc. and stores them in a database table called Events. I have an integer field in my events table called eventtype. It has eight distinct values, each of which represent a different type of...
  17. colttaylor

    Images in a SQL 2000 database. Anyone use it?

    I just read an article on how to store images from digital cameras and scanners in a field in an sql table. My imagination has run wild with possible uses for this technology. I already offer unlimited text notes on most records (users, items, etc.) but now I can store images to support each...
  18. colttaylor

    Validating User Account and Privledges

    I don't want my application users to have any powerful sql id/passwords (sa/superuser/etc) but I want my application to be able to test that the database, tables, indeces, sp's and fields are present and create them if needed. I've decided to keep a powerful id/password pair encrypted in the...
  19. colttaylor

    Detecting if OCX or DLL is registered?

    I have taken over a vb6 application which has a lot of ocx's and dll's which must be registered with regsvr32 during the installation. When one of these libraries is missing or not properly registered, the application fails in a lot of different ways, most recently with 372 errors. What I would...
  20. colttaylor

    Newbie Quest : Stop Form Scaling?

    Is there any way to not-scale a form? I have a form with 20+ controls on it and it is sized and arranged perfectly for an 800x600 screen. (I develop in 1600x1200) I'm not the original author of this software and I'm very new to vb. Currently, the form enlarges itself when it is run at...

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