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Hi Antonio I got Ubuntu 7.04 installed OK Downloaded installx.exe and xharbour.bin Followed the instructions and ran fivelinux.exe and installx.exe just fine (although it insisted on installing in root/fivelinux and root/xharbour) At first buildx.sh wouldn't run but after a bit I tried chmod o=x bui...

Antonio

Re the FTDN page - is FWPPC supposed to be there? I have a Dell one and some day I might have a bash at coding for it.

Not an issue at the moment - I have to focus on Linux

Doug

Antonio

Thanks for your help. I'm sure I'll make it with your ongoing support.

Thanks

Doug

Antonio When you say: "Please notice that you have to download install.exe and harbour.bin for Harbour, and installx.exe and xharbour.bin for xHarbour. " Where from? I gather that these are files you provide but I cant see them. Hopefully the rest I understand. When I've worked it all out ...

I downloaded FLH files again. (Don't think they have changed) copied to Linux PC. did chmod o=x fivelinux.exe that ran fine BUT The readme file says: Dear FiveLinux user, FiveTech Software is proud to present you our FiveLinux 1.0 release. Please remember that the EXE files are Linux applications. I...

Thanks for the advice - I'd better get started - and send in a new subscription

xProgrammer

I purchased FiveWin / xHarbour to develop a package which I really want to run on Linux. Because of familiarity with Windows environment and looking at levels of activity in these forums I have "prorotyped" it in Windows environment but only used the standard windows classes (window, dialo...

Thanks for your help Stefan. Prgressing well today.

Regards

xProgrammer

Thanks for the suggestion Ari - but the problem was deeper. Although cCaption contains the text that appears on the button, changing cCaption doesn't filter up to the parent classes - it just changes the value in the button object. After a fair bit of searching source code and experimentation I foun...

oMyButton:cCaption := "New label" executes without error but the display is not affected. What else do I need to do?

Thanks

xProgrammer

Thanks Antonio for your prompt answer. Will try. Buttons must have different color defaults because they show up. This certasinly looks like a solution, but is there a way to 1> Change the caption of a Button 2> Change the (background) color of a button which I would like to do. Also is there a simp...

I am writing a program to control the workflow of Word Documents. I am just using a single (main) window (oWnd). I have a timer set to check if there are any files to be edited by that user. I wanted to alert the user, preferably by changing the caption and color of a button - or at least changing t...

I am making progress using oWord := CREATEOBJECT( "Word.Application" ) then I can find LEN( oWord:FileConverters ) And iterate through oWord:FileConverters[liCount]:FormatName CREATEOBJECT() is undocumented in latest xHarbour documentation as is ToleAuto which might be another approach. Is...

I want to control Word to open Word documents and convert to text format. I can get the Application object hWordOle := CreateOleObject("Word.Application") I can get a ?handle? to the Documents Property hWordDocs := OleGetProprty( hWordOle, "Documents" ) I can use this to open a f...