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    How to clear the SCREEN-VALUE of a character LIST-ITEM-PAIRS combo-box

    I want to toss this out there in case I can save someone else the frustration I just went through. OpenEdge 11.6, Windows 10: I was struggling to clear the screen-value of a character type list-item-pairs combo-box. Neither of these worked: cbAccountNo:screen-value = ""...
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    Weird formatting of integer values of LIST-ITEM-PAIRS combo-box

    I recently ran across something weird with integer data type list-item-pairs combo-boxes. (The environment is Windows 10, OpenEdge 11.6.) I have found that the integer values in the string list found in the LIST-ITEM-PAIRS property are formatted with leading spaces. So, when I assign a...
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    How to force "entry" event when clicking on an empty browser viewport?

    Something that has long bugged me about the browse widget on Windows is that when a browse is not full (i.e., there is empty space on the lower portion of the browse viewport), clicking somewhere in the empty space does not force an 'ENTRY' event. The user must click on either the title bar...
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    PDSOE refusing to open a file

    It is a weird problem, but in the slim chance that someone else has seen this: A fresh install of OE 12.5 64-bit on Windows 10 has a PDSOE that is refusing to open any file. I can choose "File/Open", or drop a file onto an open PDSOE, and all I get is another instance of PDSOE opening up and...
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    OpenEdge GUI development tools on 4K laptop screens--yay or nay?

    I am looking at buying a new laptop, probably a ThinkPad variant with a 14-inch screen for the sake of portability. I am considering the 4K screen option. This new machine's primary purpose is OpenEdge development. We do not yet use PDSOE, but I do often use third-party editors. Before...
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    Trouble constructing a UNIX statement command line

    I am having trouble constructing a "sed" command for execution from a UNIX statement. What I want to send to the shell is this: sed -i'.bak' 's/\o14//g' [Filename_here] But no matter what I've tried, I cannot yet get the single quotes to pass through, as far as I can tell. I am likely...
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    Windows 10 GUI - how to detect window moved?

    I am trying to figure out how to detect when an OE11 GUI window (on Windows 10) has been moved by the user, and so far have come up empty. I have tried a number of the "Portable Mouse Events" such as "MOUSE-MOVE-CLICK" and "MOUSE-MOVE-UP", but none of them trigger. Can anyone pass along some tips?
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    DATE function oddity

    I was doing some testing on date/time import and conversion functions we had written when I ran across a gotcha with the DATE function. It seems to be perfectly fine with non-numeric characters for the year portion of a date string, ignoring them completely and using whatever (leading) numeric...
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    Database missing from OpenEdge Explorer after 11.6.4 service pack installation

    I upgraded a customer's OpenEdge 11.2 (on Windows) to 11.6 and all was fine in the OpenEdge Explorer. After the installation of the 11.6.4 service pack, however, the database was missing from the Explorer. We are going to roll back the server to its 11.2 state and install 11.6 again, leaving...
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