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I'm prototyping the interface and workflow for a paned application. I tried using the Canvas functions, but the inability to set the background color caused redraw ugliness so I opted for drawing directly on the Window surface. Currently, I'm using basic drawing of shapes and text plus a large array ...

I basically want to add a "Paste only changed or new files" command, sort of one half of an ad hoc sync operation. The copy part's nothing, grabbing the selected file and directory objects and adding the command to the Windows context menu is what I need to know about.

I've read something about ...

I basically want to use MDI, but be able to reduce the space requirements by freezing windows in place with a minimal dialog style frame. Is this possible, or should I just give up and destroy/recreate the windows each way?

You can see an example of what I mean if you go to www.takenotesoftware.com ...

Is there an option to back up saved files, i.e., rename the old file code.pb to code.pbk or some such? I just lost a fair amount of work when the hard drive crapped out just as PC was saving the source code. Not tantrum amounts of work, but stuff I'd rather have back.

I can't seem to find anything ...

Thanks!!!

Cheers, Jon

I'd like to send users to a web site using a URL in and About dialog using the Windows default browser. I've seen it before. Anyone know how to do it?

Put another way, how do I invoke the default external browser and direct it to a Web page?

Cheers, Jon

Hmmm, I was multipying the the byte count by 4 twice which made it write four times as much memory as it should have.

Cutting that back to the single multiplication, the routine now works.

Who knows what I was stepping on?

Cheers, Jon

sigh..

Your example works, but I must be missing something because mine does not. Here's the actual code. Forgive the sloppiness as I'm porting it and hacking it up trying different stuff.


BytesToWrite = ArraySize(@AnswerCorrect()) * 4

If Logic = #FILE_SAVE
BackupFile(Globe\ScorePath, "scb")

If ...

In the actual program, I write a string and Loc(1) comes back with 9. Then I write the 40608 bytes and the Loc(1) comes back with 40617. Then I write another 40608 bytes and Loc(1) comes back again with 40617.

I'm sorry, but I'm completely unable to fathom a reason for this.

Cheers, Jon

Those are the addresses of arrays.

Cheers, Jon

BytesToWrite = 40608

The first Debug reads 40608
The second debug reads 40608
Total file size is 40608

What am I missing?

Cheers, Jon

No idea, but perhaps it's for the same reason that my program crashes with and invalid memory access while displaying status bar text using different strings when the following line is compiled in a totally different routine and location...

Globe\MessageBoxText = "File is not a Take Note 22 ...

Well, I must've been doing something wrong, because swapping the addresses of the structures now works like a charm. I'm being careful to make sure everything is swapped back before I DIM again, but it doesn't seem as if I have to. Had to go to this method because I was swapping a lot of variables a ...

I have about 250 to 300 procedures in my current project. Unfortunately, it's an port and I'm changing a lot of procedure names. It can be maddening to sift through all of them to find the one I want in the watch list procedure drop down.

There's an alpha sort option for the procedure window, it'd ...

Structure Test
a.l
b.l
c.l
d.s
EndStructure

Global Dim Testa.Test(10)
Global Dim Testb.Test(10)

Testa(1)\a = 10
Testa(1)\d = "Varmint"
CopyMemory(@Testa(1), @Testb(1), SizeOf(Test))
Debug Testb(1)\a
Debug Testb(1)\d

Global Dim Testa.Test(10)
Global Dim Testb.Test(10)



Well, this doesn't ...