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Question: I would like to program the parallel port in Windows NT or 95. What should I do? Answer: At the simplest level, accessing the parallel port involves reading and
Question: What is the best way to learn c++?I can study on line, by book or attend a course.Which are the bests places to start. Answer: The answer really depends
Question: Is there any way to abort a loop with just pressing a kee. Like you could do in Pascal: dountil keypress Answer: If you are writing a loop that
Question: I tried to place wild-card (e.g. ‘%Ken%’) for the searching of records in a DataWindow through QueryMode, but couldn’t get the result. Are there any other ways to do
Question: Our Powerbuilder application launches an external program using the RUN command. We use the Timer Event to keep checkingif the process is running by using theKERNAL32 external function GetModuleHandleA.
Question: I recently downloaded some applet source code, but they are all stored in “.tar” type files. What program do I need to expand them or otherwise make them useful?
Question: I need to find 2 things. I need a classthat will allow me to take a date and addand subtract days/months/years from it. I also need a class that
Question: I’m a new Java developer and was wondering if there is an easy way to grab information from a String object and place it into an “int”. For example:
Question: I have been trying to test my applets under IE4.It seems to me that IE4 must keep applets cachedbecaused I think it keeps running my original applet.Is there a
Question: I was wondering whether you could direct me the appropriate product or contact for the following information.I am currently investigating the use of supporting test tools for PowerBuilder. In
Question: I had some problems with distributed applications. I developed a DPB project (both the server and the client). The server has a NVO that connects to a database and
Question: If I try to share data from one primary into the secondary, no problem. The problem occurs when I try to share data from two primaries into one secondary.
Question: I am creating a “Change Password” screen in PowerBuilder 5.0. The window basically accepts the password entered by the user, verifies it by connecting to the database, then tries
Question: How can I use a bitmap of 32X32 size for my toolbar icons? Does PB5.0 support this or is it necessary to shrink them to 16X16. Answer: The bitmap
Question: I am currently writing software that will act as client and server software for a small ISP. I waswondering if there is any way to view web pagesusing Visual
Question: I need a way to find the “netscape.exe” file using VB. Then I want to send them to an Internet address using API. Answer: What if Netscape isn’t installed?
Question: How can I put the output of a do-while loop in a list box then delete it for the next run?ex.o=0do (o=o+1)Randomize timerx=rnd( * 6)+1z=x*4Print z to loop Answer:
Question: How can I find the CD-Rom drive letter(s) from Visual Basic 5.0? Answer: The simplest method is to call the Win32 GetDriveType API against drives C:-Z:.Private Declare Function GetDriveType
Question: I am using PB 5.0. I have an MDI application. There is a menu on the MDI frame. I inherited that menu to create a window menu. The window
Question: I have a client with a PowerBuilder application, but no source code. Is there a way to reverse-engineer or recover the source code?? Answer: It is not possible to
Question: Do you have any information on Year 2000 compliance effort for VB4 / VB5 systems? Answer: Visual Basic itself is and has been year 2000 compliant. The built-in Date
Question: I use VB5 and I’m trying to search through multiple files for a string and open this file in a TextBox. How can I do this? Answer: There really
Question: I have created an ActiveX DLL with VB 5.0 Pro. I have a handful of apps that use this DLL. I would like to be able to change this
Question: How do I append information to a file? This information is inserted by the user, into a text box, and then a command button is clicked to update the
Question: After about 4 hours of work, I’d come up with an application (alltext, runs from the command line) that asks for a starting directory,and recursively writes all of that
Question: I am attempting to run a series of externalapplications within JAVA. I need the resultsof the prev. application piped as input to thefollowup application. I understand the spawningof the
Question: Is it possible to use Java to execute a command on Unix and get the output from that command? Answer: Yes. The java.lang.Runtime class has various exec() methods thatcan
ou can make your site more visually interesting by putting color, texture, or images in the background of your page. You can also select colors for text, links, and visited
n the following pages you can try HTML code and see the results of your work. When you see a text box you can click on the “Try It” button
ables let you display your content in rows and columns, either surrounded by borders or with no borders.But tables are much more than neatly arranged items. You can use tables
