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The attached zip has a couple of examples of accessing a web site using BR's built-in HTTP facility. The UPS example may be outdated. To use this properly you have to choose whether you are going to act as a server or a [browser/client]. I won't be able to walk you through this, but it might be a su...

Yes Susan. You will want to learn how to use the debugger. It will save you significant time over using the BR console to bebug. Stepping through with the hover capability is a delight.

Well I've got good news and bad news. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT NWP ALREADY DOES IT RIGHT. The bad news is that your fearless leader doesn't even know what the product does. (Of course you already knew that.) ======================================= The reason NWP has no escape sequence for COPIES is tha...

I believe NWP ignoes the COPIES= parameter in OPEN statements. I have asked Dan about it. It hasn't been a priority, because the Microsoft API doesn't support it, so report processing time cannot be saved by having BR do it. However, we are looking into it. Also 4.20D supports a TYPE command that ap...

After discussing this with Dan, I realized that I totally forgot about NXFLD, NXTROW and NXTCOL. With 2D controls NXTFLD points to the control (within the FIELDS array) and NXTROW and NXTCOL identify the cell within the 2d control that would be the next to be processed had control not returned to th...

Page 33 of the Advanced Capabilities manual (published in 1997) describes an interesting use for FKEY in conjunction with CURFLD. If you specify Let CURFLD(CURFLD,FKEY) BR automatically positions the cursor wherever it would have gone if you did not force an exit with X or AE. The wiki has an abbrev...

Wouldn't it be useful to make up a listview that included the key fields that a user might want to search on, and then attach a search field? Then the user could find what they want by clicking on the column they want to search and then begin typing into the search field the corresponding key info t...

From 4.18 Release Notes- Note- Field attribute specifications normally should appear in the following order: * [attrib-name] * override display attributes (Q, S, T etc.) * action attributes (A, E, X etc.) * color * font (in ATTRIBUTE statements only) Note- Config [attributes] do NOT store actions. T...

These issues may relate to Windows Themes. The 4.18 release notes state: Themes alter the way Windows displays fields (control elements). Microsoft first began using themes with XP. The 'classic look' is the Windows 2000 appearance, which is what is produced when themes are suppressed. Vista permits...

Taken from 4.2 release notes-

"A new leading attribute "^user_entry", returns control to the program upon the cursor entering a field. This does not apply to fields given initial focus by INPUT processing, such as with CURFLD or the first field of a FIELDS operation."

The attached feature set was added to 4.20D and is included in the release brdebug420-2009-06-17.exe on the FTP site in DLL_Distr . It will be a part of 4.20E release notes, which is very close to being published. These features pertain to the positioning of independent windows and allow for NAMED W...

"WSID=UNIQUE" should suppress additional sessions. Try doing a STATUS CONFIG to see what Diane is ending up with.

INSTALL.EXE can be found at the bottom of 418g_winsvr.zip on the web site download section ( http://www.ads.net/brules/download.html )

To see what the keyboard assignments are for any of the keys other than BREAK ( ctrl-A ) and PRINTSCREEN ( ctrl-P ) use the following program and press the keys in question: 10 PRINT UNHEX$( KSTAT$(1)) : GOTO 10 Ctrl-A is 01 and ctrl-P is 10. So to remap ctrl-P to say lowercase x, 200 EXECUTE "...

You can download the attached file from here or from the FTP site and extract it to your root drive. It will produce a Windows help file with BR pricing.

For some reason, it doesn't work if it is not saved to a root drive.