Woo! First Post! :-p Thanks for making this new list... Best regards, Brad Wilson mailto:bradw@... http://www.quality.nu/bradw/ Engineer,...
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Chris Sells
csells@...
Jul 27, 2001 10:35 pm
My pleasure. : ) Chris Sells http://staff.develop.com/csells ... From: Brad Wilson [mailto:bradw@...] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 2:31 PM To:...
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Chris Sells
csells@...
Jul 27, 2001 10:50 pm
Seemed like *every* message should be preceded with [OT]. : ) Chris Sells http://staff.develop.com/csells...
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jdossett@...
Jul 28, 2001 3:46 am
So are posts about ATL, DCOM, DOTNET and GENX considered OT here? :)...
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Chris Sells
csells@...
Jul 28, 2001 2:05 pm
*Nothing* is off topic, so long as it's Windows and technical. : ) Chris Sells http://staff.develop.com/csells ... From: jdossett@......
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Andrew Cherry
acherry@...
Jul 28, 2001 2:15 pm
You're just asking for a sophomoric response, so... My apartment has some GHASTLY old windows that are almost falling apart. The main problem is that the...
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Chris Sells
csells@...
Jul 28, 2001 2:20 pm
... Chris Sells http://staff.develop.com/csells ... From: Andrew Cherry [mailto:acherry@...] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 7:14 AM To:...
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rmacfadyen
rmacfadyen@...
Jul 28, 2001 2:47 pm
Duct tape ... From: Andrew Cherry [mailto:acherry@...] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 10:14 AM To: win_tech_off_topic@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [OT] test ...
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Chris Sells
csells@...
Jul 28, 2001 2:52 pm
LOL! I love this new list already! : ) Chris Sells http://staff.develop.com/csells ... From: rmacfadyen [mailto:rmacfadyen@...] Sent: Saturday, July 28,...
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Prakash
hprakash73@...
Jul 28, 2001 5:41 pm
I Have been wanting to ask this ques for a while but ... I guess i can ask now. I read something along this line WinMainCRTStartup is the entry point to the...
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Jay Freeman (saurik)
saurik@...
Jul 28, 2001 6:41 pm
Prakash: Entry points to functions use standard calling convention and the C naming convention. This is specified by the WINAPI or PASCAL macros you specify ...
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Prakash
hprakash73@...
Jul 28, 2001 7:58 pm
Thanks Jay thanks prakash ... From: Jay Freeman (saurik) To: offtopic Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:41 PM Subject: [OT] Re: first ques -- /Entry --winmain? ...
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Andre Van Der Merwe
andre.dart@...
Jul 29, 2001 5:03 pm
What is the general feeling (it is an OT list after all :) on using namespace aliases? For instance I like "using WinForms = System.Windows.Forms;". The...
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Chris Sells
csells@...
Jul 29, 2001 5:21 pm
Aliases seem to me to provide the same syntactic convenience as typedefs. If you like typedefs, you should like aliases and vice versa. Chris Sells ...
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Chris Sells
csells@...
Jul 30, 2001 6:20 am
So, what I've determined that I most love about the web is that I can be *running* an app, aka web site, w/o having to *install* it first. Because every...
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Jay Freeman (saurik)
saurik@...
Jul 30, 2001 6:46 am
Chris: (I love being offtopic, hehe... *ever so slightly warps topic*.) Well, you could have the applications actually run on the remote computer (which pretty...
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Francisco H Tapia
fhtapia@...
Jul 30, 2001 10:31 am
I'm glad this started up! I'll throw out a question, a buddy has a question wether to keep his EPoX board 8KT3A+ or move to a similar 1.4gig Iwill board. ...
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Brad Wilson
bradw@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:04 pm
I've inherited a server-based system that automates Word for the purposes of document conversion. Yes, it makes my head hurt. I'm trying to fix it, so please...
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Richard L. Melton
rmelton@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:12 pm
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I'm not sure what you'd gain (other than headaches and support calls) by removing word from the situation and it sounds like...
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Richard Blewett
richard.blewett@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:15 pm
Thats *Evil* Brad ;-P Rich ... From: Brad Wilson [mailto:bradw@...] Sent: 30 July 2001 20:03 To: Off Topic Windows Subject: [OT] Document conversion I've...
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Brad Wilson
bradw@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:16 pm
... But, it is broken. Our production servers are constantly hosed not only by runaway CPU usage (like, try opening a Word document with a password in ...
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Brad Wilson
bradw@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:22 pm
... That's it! You owe me a beer! And not one of those American beers, but something from civilization! :-p Best regards, Brad Wilson mailto:bradw@......
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Richard L. Melton
rmelton@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:38 pm
Ya, it's definatly broken. However, in my thinking Word probably does an excellent job of converting documents and I'd fight to keep it in the environment. I...
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Brad Wilson
bradw@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:42 pm
... When it works, you're right: it's awesome at its job. ... The problem is the amount of effort we'd go through to "unbreak" Word (which, in fairness, is our...
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Lucas Vogel
lvogel@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:46 pm
What about creating a COM library that does this through automation? Have the COM object reference word and do its conversion that way. Is that a possibility? ...
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Murphy, James
James.Murphy@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:50 pm
Ya then you wouldn't have to type in the document text and click on File Save As every time you get a web request to convert a document. ;-p Jim ... ...
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Brad Wilson
bradw@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:50 pm
... All that does is add a layer. That doesn't help the fact that Word is more or less fundamentally not designed to do what we want. How would this COM layer,...
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Lucas Vogel
lvogel@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:53 pm
... So does this mean that you already have some kind of library/custom program in place right now then?...
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Richard L. Melton
rmelton@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:57 pm
... I hear that one! It does sound like a bad project gone into production. "Whaddya mean we gotta test it?" - quote from my consulting days..... Ritch...
