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by rich
Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:50 am
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: Web development like PB-programming
Replies: 22
Views: 6826

I dislike with PHP/ASP that I have to manually maintain state between each time the page is rendered

Welcome to the HTTP protocol.

It is an *entirely* stateless protocol and, well, there's nothing you can do abot that. Which is why PHP/ASP/Perl/Ruby/etc all handle sessions server side and force ...
by rich
Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:29 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What is a good way to join files together?
Replies: 2
Views: 1193

For anyone else who reads this - I found a rather elegant and fast solution to this other than the byte by byte reading process. I basically create a batch file that just has a single copy command in it, such as:

copy /y part1.bin /b + part2.bin /b + part3.bin /b DestFile.zip /b

(The /y surpresses ...
by rich
Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What is a good way to join files together?
Replies: 2
Views: 1193

What is a good way to join files together?

Hi all,

I have written a program which successfully downloads a file from a web site. The file is downloaded in 1MB chunks. The end result being that I have approx. 200 "chunks" in my temporary folder and I need a bullet-proof way to stitch them back together again into a single file.

Does anyone ...
by rich
Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:01 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: What is a good delay value?
Replies: 4
Views: 2042

Whoa, that's some serious code! I am however looking at swapping this over to a Thread and it seems simple enough - thanks for the pointer :)
by rich
Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:14 pm
Forum: Coding Questions
Topic: What is a good delay value?
Replies: 4
Views: 2042

What is a good delay value?

Hi,

In my small application I am using the WaitWindowEvent() to check to see if the user performs an action - when they perform said action what it does is download a file and update a progress bar at the same time - this is fine, but if I use the WaitWindowEvent the progress bar does not update ...
by rich
Wed Apr 28, 2004 6:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Internet Explorer Toolbar
Replies: 7
Views: 2624

Internet Explorer Toolbar

Hi all,

I haven't really looked into this much, but I was wondering if PB could be used to create a toolbar for Internet Explorer? I have seen various packages you can buy that will let you create your own toolbars, but if it can be done with PB anyway that would be better. Any links/comments ...