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by rdonnay
Mon Sep 01, 2025 8:35 am
Forum: phpBB Board Support
Topic: We are back!!!
Replies: 6
Views: 372

Re: We are back!!!

shouldn't prevent you from enjoying your well-deserved retirement Every time I think about retirement, I'm guessing that my age is going to catch up with me soon, but then, when my mind is given a challenge, I find that I can still function well, and with a decent amount of creativity. Writing the ...
by rdonnay
Sun Aug 31, 2025 4:20 pm
Forum: phpBB Board Support
Topic: We are back!!!
Replies: 6
Views: 372

We are back!!!

My apologies to eXpress++ users and all others who have depended on this forum for support and the failure to provide that support for nearly 1 month. I went on a 2-week vacation, with my dog Harley, and on day 2 a storm took out my server back home. The battery failed to protect the server and I de...
by rdonnay
Sun Jul 20, 2025 7:33 pm
Forum: Harley the Fluffy Corgi
Topic: Happy Harley
Replies: 1
Views: 37844

Happy Harley

Harley Quinn finally got her wish. She saw her pedigree papers and saw that all of her ancestors had long funny names, and so she asked me why she didn't have a long funny name. Hers was just Wanderpond Harlequin. So I changed her name to Wanderpond Harlarious Funnybone. Now she's happy.
by rdonnay
Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:56 pm
Forum: eXpress++ Support
Topic: How to change currency symbol in windows
Replies: 12
Views: 12982

Re: How to change currency symbol in windows

I found this: #DEFINE PRO_CURRENCY PRO_[129] ***************** function currency() ***************** // 9/17/2002 10:53PM Dovebid Mods.. Let Currency be blank // 4/27/2006 9:16AM change to DOS function. did not do when windows originally written local cSystem:=getcSystem() IF cSystem=="AUCTION" .AND...
by rdonnay
Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:45 pm
Forum: eXpress++ Support
Topic: How to change currency symbol in windows
Replies: 12
Views: 12982

Re: How to change currency symbol in windows

Roger might have the old code somewhere. I don't have it anymore.
I will look for it on my old laptop.
by rdonnay
Sat Jun 28, 2025 5:39 am
Forum: Zen and the art of Software Maintenance
Topic: This is the best Zen experience ever
Replies: 1
Views: 4678

This is the best Zen experience ever

Now, I am starting to understand why Tom Liehr writes novels.

This is my first work of fiction and it was inspired by my dog, Harley.

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by rdonnay
Sat Jun 28, 2025 5:28 am
Forum: eXpress++ Support
Topic: Problem using Tooltip
Replies: 1
Views: 4002

Re: Problem using Tooltip

I can't see the tooltip in your screen capture.

Is there any way you can reproduce this problem in a test program?
by rdonnay
Sat May 31, 2025 8:10 am
Forum: Xbase++ 2.0
Topic: How do I detect the DLLs required by an XBase and eXpress application?
Replies: 5
Views: 7114

Re: How do I detect the DLLs required by an XBase and eXpress application?

I use the CHK4DLL.EXE utility: http://bb.donnay-software.com/donnay/chk4dll.exe Example: CHK4DLL XDOT.EXE will produce the following output : XCHK4DLL Version 1.0 - DLL load check. (C) Copyright Alaska Software GmbH 1997. All Rights Reserved. Processing file xdot.exe DCLIPX.dll -> C:\expd20\bin20\DC...
by rdonnay
Fri May 30, 2025 8:11 am
Forum: PostGreSQL
Topic: Upper Case field names
Replies: 6
Views: 13283

Re: Upper Case field names

It appears that this is not going to work.

Changes the field names to upper case causes a runtime error which I cannot interpret.
When I put them back to lower case all worked again.