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by grumpy
Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:49 am
Forum: FiveWin for CA-Clipper
Topic: Copy to DVD
Replies: 3
Views: 1256

Copy to DVD

I have a system that has users place a writable CD in the drive and then I perform a backup of the data files to the CD I have been using the following method to do the copy, DLL32 FUNCTION CopyFile( cExFile AS LPSTR, cNewFile AS LPSTR, lFailIfEx AS LONG ); AS BOOL FROM "CopyFileA" LIB &qu...
by grumpy
Wed Dec 28, 2005 4:49 am
Forum: FiveWin for CA-Clipper
Topic: Task priority
Replies: 3
Views: 1244

Task priority

Increaing the timer only delayed when the program hogged the system. I have now set a flag whilst processing incoming text files and do not update the stats until this flag is no longer set. Another problem Winexec("program",9) states it will start a program or use the one currently runnin...
by grumpy
Tue Dec 27, 2005 12:55 pm
Forum: FiveWin for CA-Clipper
Topic: Task priority
Replies: 3
Views: 1244

Task priority

Is there a way of setting a tasks priority. I have a program that processes a lot of data from text files created by another device. The user now wishes some stats from this program, I wish to create them on the fly. The problem is each text file takes approx 30 - 40 minutes to process and creates t...