Recent content by Doug Johnson

V9.1E - windows xp We just need a listing of all of the fields for a specific table. Something like the following: Tablename fieldname1 fieldname2 fieldname3 fieldname4 fieldname5 fieldname6 fieldname7 We currently can look in the dictionary but the fields are not all listed together...

Within the Progress language can we ask for the "field list" similar to how you might ask Mysql for a "describe database.tablename" of a database? Thanks

Nice Thanks everyone!!!

Progress V.91E - Windows XP sp2 I'm trying to check for the existence of the character "{" in a string. But when I do: IF SUBSTRING(thestring,1,1) EQ "{" THEN ..... I get an unmatched curly braces error. How do I escape the {? Or, can something else be done? Thanks!

We are getting ready to go from version 9 to Progress version 10. Does anyone have any ideas as to what problems we may run into? Thanks

Windows XP SP2, Progress Version 9.1E We would like to be able to use the F3 function key in our programs. However, we have found that the F3 key is used by Progress for Menu calls. Is there a way to remap this key?

[Windows XP - Progress V91E] We would like for a user to be able to upload images in Progress and then in the future, display those images in Progress. Preferably, the images would be "linked" to a network location and not actually stored in the Progress db. But either way would be ok. Any...

[Windows XP - Progress 91E] Is there a way to switch between two different frames/programs and preserve the "state" of each so when the user returns to the previous frame, everything is as it was before leaving? In the example below, I would want the input to NOT copy over to the main...

Works great. It's obvious how it works now. Thanks alot.

Yes, but I probably wasn't putting it in the correct place? Or, I made some other mistake. That's why I posted the code. Maybe someone can show me where it needs to go? Thanks.

Thanks for the reply! Here's my abbreviated code. After clicking "Location Match" the user has a "Back" button. That's the button I'd like to map to the ESC key. DEFINE TEMP-TABLE tier-list NO-UNDO FIELD tier-code AS CHAR FIELD tier-name AS CHAR FIELD tier-float AS CHAR. CREATE...

Progress Version 9.1E - Windows XP I am using several "BACK" buttons to take the user from a popup browse, back to the original browse. This works fine. However, I would like to "map" the ESC key to the BACK button so the KEY takes the user back also. Help please.

That did it!! I understand why it wasn't working now. Have a great weekend!!!

Thanks mrobles! I replaced my WAIT-FOR WINDOW-CLOSE OF CURRENT-WINDOW. and uncommented the APPLY "CLOSE" in the ON 'CHOOSE' but it still doesn't work. Obviously I'm not doing something right. ON 'CHOOSE':U OF exitbutton IN FRAME frame1 DO: MESSAGE "EXIT" VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX. APPLY...

[Progress Version 9.1E - Windows XP] In the past I've created buttons to exit a procedure and return to a main menu. However, when using the code below, the exit button does NOT work!?!?! Help please:-) DEFINE TEMP-TABLE tier-list NO-UNDO FIELD tier-code AS CHAR FIELD tier-name AS...