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Question: How can I implement a counter on my page, like the oneyou use, to show how many visitors have been to my site? Answer: The most common way to
Question: Is there a document that explains the basics of online computing? Answer: No. There is no single document that can explain it all. The world ofonline computing is vast
Question: When my form has just one text box, I can submit it by pressing theEnter key, but not when there are more text boxes or other controls inthe form.Any
Question: I teach an Internet class to middle school students. Mycomputers only have 33 MHz processors and no multimedia capabilities. Howmuch effect is the processing speed having on my Internet
Question: I’m a print media designer looking to expand into Web page design (surprise, surprise). I have become comfortable with HTML but know nothing about programming and programming languages. I
Question: I would like to have our customers upload their own pages to our virtual server, however, we can’t give individual telnet or ftp access. Is their a way to
Question: I am wondering if you know of a good search engine for a Windows NT server, running Netscape Commerce. Answer: There are more and more search engines availableon Windows
Question: Is there a way to disable the View Source menu optionin the Netscape browser so that when someone tries to look at thedocument source they can’t see it? Answer:
Question: I have a monitor resolution set to 640×480. When I see the image on a monitor with a resolution of 800×600, it looks different. How do I create an
Question: How can I put an initial value in a TEXTAREA? works just fine, but it doesn’t seem to work with textareas. Answer: You say that you did try using
Question: Does Centura support the Unicode consortium? Is there a way to use it with Centura Web Developer? And with SQLWindows 5.0.X? Answer: First, find out what your Unicode requirements
Question: I’m running SQLBase Server 5.2.1-PTF8 for Windows NT, and I’m running SQLConsole 1.0.2 on a Workgroups 3.11 client. All clients are WFW3.11 and communicate with the server via TCP/IP.
Question: I am developing an application in VB 4.0 connecting to an Access 7.0Database. I do not want to set up database security with groups, users andpasswords. All I want
Question: In Word 7.0, under Tools, Options, File Locations tab, there is a dialog that comes up to define the folder containing certain types of files. This dialog allows folder
Question: I’ve got ten pages of code and there’s an “If” on the first page, a bunch of “If…EndIf” statements throughout the code and the “EndIf” that corresponds with the
Question: When I use my add record button on my form I get blank fields, like I should. However, after I add the new info and move to a different
Question: How does one calculate time differences. I know there’s a function to calculate date differences.I am coding a database program which includes calculating the difference between a start time
Question: I have been trying to right a routine to recurs sub directories and scan for files. Then the light came on!!! What is the call to the windows API
Question: Would you please tell me how to pass variables from forms to forms? Is that we can use the Tabs in general or use pass by reference? Thanks! Answer:
Question: Could you tell me why this takes a 150MHz Pentium with 64MB of RAM just to run fast enough to catch MCI time output? Private Sub Rply_Timer_Run()Dim ReplayTime As
Question: If I have a return-to-home link in the second frame on my Web page, how can I keep it from opening a second browser? Answer: Use “TARGET=_top” in the
Question: What parameters I need to query a finger server to check if new POP3 e-mail has arrived ?Finger is commonly used for getting connected users information (sending a blank
Question: I would like to change SRC picture of thesensitive map, onClick on some area of same picture.With JavaScript it works that if instead ofHREF =”some.URL” on imagespot you just
Question: How do you write javascript output to a file on the server and then retrieve it later? Answer: Unfortunately, like VBScript, JavaScript cannot write to files on yourserver or
Question: Is SqlWindows an OLE Automation Server or is it only an OLE client? Answer: SQLWindows (and Centura Team Developer), in its current incarnation, is an OLE automation CLIENT. That
Question: I’ve heard about a configuration keyword for SQLBase that groups multiple COMMITs together. Does this keyword exist, and under whatconditions would it be useful? Answer: Yes. The keyword “groupcommit”
Question: My SQLWindows app, which has been deployed for several months now, has started giving error 163 (“Result sets are not active”) messages. Is this caused by a bug somewhere
Question: Is it possible for a class to inherit from another class? Answer: Unfortunately, VB does not currently support class inheritance. However, using a tool like ClassAction from Crescent or
Question: I have a question and answer intranet site that I need to have the system input the current date and time for each question generated. This data needs to
Question: From VB4.0 32 bit, I would like to be able to open excel 7.0, start a new spreadsheet, give it a name, put info in the spreadsheet, save the