To all HotBasic users. HBassistant v2.41d has now been released. In this version: In the section, Compiler objects | fonts A short article has been added to...
Philip Bister
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Jun 2, 2008 11:23 am
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Jim This is an extract from the manual (hotdoc54.zip) hotobj.txt under the section hbHnd. 'If a Custom Object EXTENDS a FORM object, "hbHnd" is the extended...
Philip Bister
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Jun 2, 2008 11:23 am
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... Hello, hbHnd in this case, is a pointer to original object ... ... and you can use this pointer like: (if your object extends font) use MyFont as Font with...
... Thanks for the example (I have never used Font with hbHnd) Just in case my original point was missed, FONT is a non-form object. My original text said that...
Philip Bister
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Jun 3, 2008 12:35 pm
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Re: HBassistant docs to include Basic RTF handling in Richedit2 ? Maybe I should work on this. Philip...
Philip Bister
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Jun 3, 2008 12:35 pm
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... MANY is very right (of course!), and FONT is a non-FORM object (like BMP, etc; not a "control" per se, in Microsoft's terminology). MANY showed that hbHnd...
I wrote: ...a pointer to the native font object's data... to which I might add that a HotBasic design standard is to use Microsoft's "INFO" structures for its...
... Above I quote some interesting remarks in an email from a person investigating HotBasic -- read on, it gets better!! ... Typically HotBasic responds with...
I am a little confused as to ComHelper, at the moment all I am trying to do is open Excel, make it visible, add a workbook and insert data into cells. Ken. ......
Hi, want to test a MDI application with Pierrot's MDI Testapplication which uses (MDI.obj and MDI.inc). If I compile this testapplication I get a fatal link...
... Hi, Alex. The two symbols above are from a much older version of HB ... before the upgrade in function-result handling. Solution is simply to recompile...
Fredrik, ComHelper has a "Visible" option for making Excel visible or not, this does not work. "Set_Visible" works but is not documented anywhere, is there...
No, not that I know of. What you could do is to export the .inc file for excel and look in that to see the interfaces exposed. Perhaps emmazle how is the...
Hello, .Visible and .Set_Visible are both related to the .visible property of the excel object. .Visible is used to read the value: defint i=myObj.Visible ...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the hotbasic group. File : /Code...
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Jun 14, 2008 5:21 pm
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I just uploaded some code on how to talk to Excel with comhelper. One question Emmazle if I have a com object that returns an array and I would like to get...
Ah Ah, wandering into array territory! Arrays are accessed through a set of API functions. Google "SAFEARRAY" for info. I think the function you need is ...
Hi, I am conducting an informal poll concerning the interest and use of either HotBasic or PowerBasic. This site is primarily a PowerBasic domain, so to make...
... That is, ...the URL below. ... Dan is a new HB user who brings bushels of experience in computing and kindly has opened a HB tread on the above site to ...
... Alex, HotAPIViewer is awesome! I plan to include it in a revision of hbsetup (working on that today). For those who don't have this invaluable tool, the...
... Now a direct link to this great tool has been added to www.hotbasic.org Download page at the bottom under related links. Great work, Alex! On W2K, it does...
HotBasic Setup 1.5 released: 1. Alex's Hot API Viewer, a tremendous tool, is now listed for automated download and install. 2. Cor's HB Code Archive checkbox...
... Thanks Alex for this outstanding addition to HotBasic's toolset. Is there any chance of making the source available to help others learn programming in...