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Glad to see you're all doing well in this battle against covid-19. So am I, despite living in the highly infected area of Rockland County, New York. I hope we all continue to stay in good shape. And Tom, thanks for asking the question! All the best to all FiveWinners. May you all remain in a safe Ha...

You will find all of Antonio's original tutorial text about OOP and his Objects engine in \FWH\Manual\fwprog.hlp. Plus a lot of other useful tutorials about program design and how to use Fivewin. - Roger

Can FiveTouch handle resources in an RC file? If not, how does it handle screen/controls resources?

Antonio,

Regarding refunds if the money can't be raised, your answer is good enough for me. I'll jump in.

- Roger

Antonio,

Great news indeed!

Question: what happens to the donations if the full amount is not raised within a reasonable time? Will the donations (investments) be refunded?

- Roger

Depending on its configuration, Windows 7+ can play hide and seek with files created by your app if app is installed in Program Files (either x86 or the other). A way around this is to install your app in c:\users\public\MyAppDir (whatever your app dir name is). Then files created by app will be in ...

Thanks, Patrizio, regarding Winuser.ch . Mystery solved! Winuser.ch is in ..xhb\include where IDNO is defined as 7, which explains why the error message I got mentioned 7. Anyone using xHarbour should take a look at Winuser.ch in order to be aware of variable names that get defined there and which c...

Using xHarbour.com's xBuild compiler, I was getting "Error E0030 Syntax error at '7'". It occurred at a FIELD declaration line, and I determined that '7' had nothing to do with it. The problem was that one of the fields listed had the name "IDNO" all in caps. As soon as I changed...

You're right, Adolfo - with a cellphone, anyone can be a spy!

Is there a way to disable the Print Screen key from within FWH? This question was asked before by someone else a while ago with no response. But for data security reasons, this can be important. Even if you encrypt your data on disk, a vulnerability is that a user could view the unencrypted data on ...

Like Tim, I use CDX indexes (a technology that I think originated with Foxpro). You activate it via the REQUEST command at the top of your app's main PRG, as REQUEST DBFCDX. To use Foxpro memos, you can also REQUEST DBFFPT (though I think this may now be unnecessary, as it may automatically occur wi...

This probably won't help much, but long ago, for reasons I've forgotten, I was taught when opening a file to always use (cFile) instead of the &cFile macro and to always include the ALIAS clause, such as: USE (cFile) ALIAS MyDbf SHARED NEW At the time that I learned this, it solved some performa...

Some test code illustrating how to work with Blowfish can be downloaded from...

http://www.leadersoft.com/files/BfTest.zip

An additional point on Blowfish encryption usage: 7. When encrypting/decrypting multiple records at once via Blowfish in a looping process like DO WHILE, you must first delete any controlling compound index, like a compound CDX index, or else the encrypting/decrypting will GPF after processing a few...

Though the current version of MS-Excel won't "Save As" to dBase anymore, the current version of OpenOffice.org will - and it is free. OO.o also can export a Word file to PDF, which is handy. Though I have MS-Office, I also use OpenOffice.org and recommend it. You can even distribute it to ...