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In tyring to import a CSV file into Excel using Progress, I have found that Trailing negative numbers in the Csv file are imported and treated as Text by Excel rather than numbers. Excel's OpenText method has a param, which I had assumed to be the 13th param called "TrailingMinusNumbers" which...

Import csv into Excel 2007 - FieldInfo I am trying first time to open Excel (Excel 2007 Trial version) from Progress (OE10.1B) and to import a csv file into Excel. The file is delimited by semi-colon rather than comma. The current codes :- Def var ExAppl as com-handle. CREATE...

Does anyone know how to programatically dial-up to another computer, ( in order to do some processing) and then programatically disconnect from that computer when it is done? Thanks for any help.

Does anyone here use Prompt-for? I do. And I found to my dismay that it is listed on the Deprecated list of commands in Version 10.1A. :blue: The recommeded replacement commands of set/update aren't useable. Comments anyone?

Hi Screen fill-in widgets. When I define a screen frame with fields from a table in the database and using the default format of the fields, when it is shown on screen, the tendency is that : (1) Those fields with short format eg. X(3) will show info properly though often the space...

Realised that _Osprint.p does not send to the printer that I set programmactically in session:printer-name. It will always send report to the Windows default printer. Somewhere here, I have read that one way to overcome this problem is to use GetProfileString and WriteProfileString. Can...

I have a procedure that displays information on the screen in a down frame. One of the field is a decimal field which column-label can change. Codes as follows:- IF mappamt:LABEL BEGINS "Debit" THEN temprec.mp-amount:LABEL = " Debit". ELSE...

Hi V9.1D WinXP. In my application, all my "messages view-as alert-box" produces sounds. However if I use "view-as alert-box QUESTION" no sound is produced on XP. :confused: Anyone knows where I can set the sound ? Thanks SKc

Progress V9.1D GUI I managed to use the Progress editor widget to view Report text files on disk. But I have 1 main snag - how to allow user to press the right-arrow key to get wide report to scroll into view from the right? Right-now pressing right-arrow key moves the cursor inside the...

Does anyone know how to change the font in a Message Alert box command eg. message "Please try again" view-as alert-box error. I want the text "Please try again" or whatever to be a certain font that can be set globally for all messages within Progress. If not, then can the font be set...

Progress V9.1D Windows. I want to change the color of the focused row of a browse widget at run-time. Does anyone know whether this is possible with Progress? Thanks for any clue. Skc

V9.1C GUI Using Output to PRINTER, is there a way to change the font based on user's input at runtime? For eg. the progress.ini specifies PrinterFont=Courier New, size=9. If the user wants a bigger/smaller font based on his own choice and based on the particular report being printed, can...

I am currently converting an old Progress V7 Dos application to V9 GUI. In the old DOS application I had the following code which works fine:- for each myfile with width 80 frame fdetail: display doc-date invoice trantype doc-no description amount. end. Running the same procedure...

V9.1C Windows 98 I have backup a database "mydb" with relative structure to A:\ drive. Prior to backup prostrct list mydb shows .\mydb and mydb.st shows:- # b . # d "Schema Area":6,32 . However on restore, prostrct list mydb shows the absolute pathname. No matter how I try using...

Hi I was away for > 1 year . Now I am back and I noticed there's another category called "PEG (Progress Email Group)". Is this category tapping into another forum elsewhere? Is this an alternative group? Would the same features that work here work in PEG category - things like 'notify me...

Report Viewer - how to shift Editor's viewport? V9.1C Progress Windows I created a Large Editor in a frame for the purpose of viewing reports. The Editor is as wide as the screen. But the report can be wider than the Editor's width. What I want to accomplish is that when the user...

Using V9.1C Windows Progress. My purpose is to allow end-user to create new database from a sample db. V9 is always multi-volume and I want the db-name stored in the new database to contain relative pathname of the new db. For this reason I seem to have to use the prodb utility (cannot use...