Recent content by TonHu

Putting stuff on Github seems currently the most used way of sharing stuff with the world. Just create a src or source folder and put the separate parts in its own folder there, add a Readme.md and select a proper license model (for just sharing GPL, LGPL, MIT licenses are often used, or write...

Please explain how you implemented the shortcuts (hotkeys? )

This is an Exchange forum, not Excel, sorry.

Most commercial bar-code scanners connected to a PC are identifying themselves as a USB keyboard, so they are (automatically) handled in parallel to the standard keyboard by Windows. Similarly is supported with mice. Just connect another USB mouse to your system, or a graphic digitizer tablet...

Outlook Express is not supported on any OS after Windows XP.

Try this tool I just stumbled upon: DevArt SQL Decryptor (I have no links or ties with the company or product)

Migrate to Windows 2008 R2 or newer, as all older Windows Server versions are in End-Of-Life state.

A specific Window should be activated by finding it either by Window-Title (caption) or Window-Class, not by clicking the mouse somewhere in a rather random location. What if another application-window is hiding that specific pixel from view?

You could switch to Harbour-project / xHarbour compilers to release the 4k array size limit, and other old, DOS-based, Clipper-specific limitations. :-)

MS Word can do that for you, using the embedded VBA (VB for Applications) language, as also used in macro's, or in fact any word-processing tool that does mail-merge based on an ODBC data source.

There is only 1 of 10 (base-2) solutions that should be acceptable: Rewrite from scratch, using modern techniques, replicating the business logic of the old DOS application. DO NOT try to slap on a web-interface or something similar onto a DOS application, it's not scalable so it won't be able...

You are already advised by the MS SQL manuals to use nvarchar anyway, so why not use it for all your data, and never worry about the xml , or whatever file-format, export?

Just run iptables on a Linux machine, as a front-end to your Windows network :-) (y)

Check this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186775.aspx Be sure to read the section 'Reuse of values'.

Use JDBC to open the file using the fitting JDBC for Access driver, and use it through there.