Welcome to the new Rapid-Q mailing list. I apologize for the inconvenience, but since this list offers mailing list archives, it makes my life much easier. ...
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echecero@...
May 14, 2000 7:35 am
Well, I hope my advice was sound and that eGroups works out...<grin> In any case, I'm basking in the May 6th release...Rapid-Q is wonderful! Thomas ...
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rapidq@egroups.com
May 14, 2000 7:41 am
Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the rapidq group: We all know that Rapid-Q is great, but just how great is it? --Echecero (10=best, 1=worst)...
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Phoenix Magus
phoenixm@...
May 15, 2000 1:20 pm
I am making a test program to figure out how to use DirectX and I have a couple questions: When creating a form, what is ClientHeight and ClientWidth. Also,...
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Steven Edwards
steveags@...
May 15, 2000 1:32 pm
From: Phoenix Magus <phoenixm@...> To: <rapidq@egroups.com> ... form.ClientHeight and form.ClientWidth let you know the exact area that can be used to...
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Phoenix Magus
phoenixm@...
May 15, 2000 2:44 pm
Is there is any place which has full descriptions of all the arguments, etc of all the DirectX Components? Thanks Phoenix Magus...
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Steven Edwards
steveags@...
May 15, 2000 6:47 pm
...or maybe a mis-assumption? This relates to the division operators / and \. These are noramlly floating point "/" and integer "\" division operators, but I'm...
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William Yu
voxel@...
May 16, 2000 5:21 am
... Ah yes, I decided to leave it out since it is ambigous. It's not a problem putting it back in, I'll probably do that for the next release. If there are...
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Darryl Morgendorffer
dtimmons@...
May 17, 2000 2:38 am
Hello, I have a couple of questions: 1.) Is there any way to implement a linked list or something comparable to a Java vector under Rapid-Q? (i.e. an...
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William Yu
voxel@...
May 17, 2000 2:53 am
... Sort of, but not really... here's what I mean: TYPE MyStruct Num AS INTEGER Str AS STRING*255 END TYPE DIM M AS MyStruct DIM Mem AS QMEMORYSTREAM M.Num = 1...
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Steven Edwards
steveags@...
May 17, 2000 7:53 pm
This may be a bug, or it may be me overlooking something. I have a set of .bmp files, all 40 x 40 and 256 colors. Each bmp file is a small 3 or 4 color drawing...
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William Yu
voxel@...
May 17, 2000 9:59 pm
... Thanks for the report, I've fixed the problem for the next release. Hopefully by tomorrow or later today, I'll release this new version. ...
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voxel@...
May 18, 2000 3:21 am
What's New for Build 05.17.2000 ... - Added new FIELD$ keyword - Fixed a little problem with using DWORD in a UDT - Added SIZEOF keyword - Added $ESCAPECHARS...
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Phoenix Magus
phoenixm@...
May 18, 2000 1:07 pm
When exactly does the DXTimer expire? I'm trying to make this game i'm working on scroll smoothly, but when I make it smoothly, it's slower. For example, if I...
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Steven Edwards
steveags@...
May 18, 2000 5:45 pm
I've been working on my Beginning Beginner's website: the BASICs. I have two seperate redirects for the site, the original http://go.to/thebasics and a new one...
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Ruben Baumann
rynt@...
May 18, 2000 10:23 pm
Hey William, I was going to play around with MySql, so I downloaded the Win32 shareware version, installed it, etc. However, when I went to copy LIBMYSQL.DLL...
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William Yu
voxel@...
May 19, 2000 12:27 am
... Hmmm, that's strange, it should be in OPT or DEBUG. Its been a while since my last install, so I don't remember if there were any options in installing...
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William Yu
voxel@...
May 19, 2000 12:33 am
... You can specify an Interval, so 1000 = 1 second, etc... ie. DXTimer.Interval = 1000 ... How are you accomplishing your scrolling? ... You'll have to do...
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Daniel Foote
d_foote@...
May 19, 2000 5:01 am
Hello all! When William says about arrays in UDT's, what exactly do you mean? I would like to see arrays of UDT's as well - they make simple databases so easy....
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Phoenix Magus
phoenixm@...
May 19, 2000 11:57 am
... Every time the QDXTimerTimer expires, I change the position of everything that will move(by 1 pixel), then redraw the screen and flip it. (Suggestions are...
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Steven Edwards
steveags@...
May 19, 2000 12:34 pm
... From: Daniel Foote <d_foote@...> To: <rapidq@egroups.com> ... [snip] ... How about like this: TYPE CharacterType Name AS STRING * 20 Strength AS...
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Phoenix Magus
phoenixm@...
May 19, 2000 12:37 pm
I think the way UDT's are in RapidQ now is: TYPE UDTInventoryRecord Name(1000) AS STRING * 25 Id(1000) AS INTEGER QOH(1000) AS INTEGER ReorderPt(1000) AS...
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Christopher Bradford
csb@...
May 19, 2000 3:24 pm
Hi all -- I'm writing a CGI app that can call external "modules"... these external modules are other executibles that return data to the main program....
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Ruben Baumann
rynt@...
May 19, 2000 6:01 pm
Just my two cents worth - Forget about arrays within UDTs until some time down the road(if ever). I have never found static arrays within UDTs to be of very ...
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William Yu
voxel@...
May 19, 2000 8:07 pm
... Hmmm, I kind of assume you are working with the Linux version? With Windows, you can just use the Clipboard component. I haven't tried this method yet, but...
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Christopher Bradford
csb@...
May 19, 2000 8:24 pm
Thanks for the ideas! I like the idea about the pointer... I'll probably save that one for use in an app someday. Unfortunately, I don't think its the right ...
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Christopher Bradford
csb@...
May 19, 2000 8:30 pm
Cool! Good job...
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Sand Dune
SandDune@...
May 19, 2000 9:20 pm
Chris, How about using the module(s) as an "include" to the CGI program? This way the data would get passed and run without temp files or large parameters that...
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Ruben Baumann
rynt@...
May 19, 2000 9:25 pm
Thanks William - got it. MySql looks to be a pretty cool dbms. CU RC...
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Antoni Gual
agual@...
May 19, 2000 10:21 pm
Allo! Allo! Testing the new mailing list! Does it work? I think RapidQ should have the QB LSET and RSET instruction that helped a lot to format strings, and...
