ProvideX FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

• What's with the PayPal icon?
• Who is Nth Dimension and how can I get in touch with you?
• Is that a Seirpinski Gasket you are using as a logo?
• How can you have one phone number that accepts both voicemail and faxes?
• How can I make a submission to the site?
• What kind of submissions are accepted?
• In the example code section, why don't all the color listings show up correctly?
• Why does this site look funny with Netscape 4.7?

• How can I force all my screens to use the new '4D' (XP) look without changing all my programs?

• Where can I find ProvideX Documentation?
• Where are the ProvideX versions stored in the registry?
• What is ProvideX?
• What books are available to help me learn ProvideX?
• Where can I find other like minded ProvideX programmers?
• Why do I get an error opening \\mysever\myshare ?
• How can I make my ProvideX task in Windows Flash on the Task Bar?
• When doing an INVOKE on a windows system, is there a trick to getting command.com vs. cmd.exe ?
• Is there a way that I can enter a password to a program so that if someone is looking over my shoulder they will not see what my password is?
• How do you retrieve the OS version, especially on Windows when SYS is only 'MS-WINDOWS'?
• How can I double click on a file in Explorer and have it open in *IT?
• What's the difference between PREINPUT and PREINPUT NEXT?
• What is the most common reason for a GPF in pvxwin32?
• How can I change the 16 default colours?
• How can I prompt for an RGB colour value?
• How can I force a message box to pop up overtop of any other window?
• Does ProvideX work in a multi-processor system?
• How do I get rid of that "hand" that shows up when I hover over a button?
• Will ProvideX run on Itanium (64-bit) processors?
• Can you offer some tips in terms of dealing with Daylight Savings Time?
• How do I know if a program is password protected or not?
• What can be done about error 31's?

• Can you explain just what ActiveX/OCX/COM programming is to somebody who's never dealt with it at all?
• Where is the documentation for the ProvideX OCX interface?
• How can I tell what objects have already been created, or are taking up memory?
• How can I see a list of what controls I have installed?
• How do I replicate the given VB syntax to ProvideX?
• Why won't my DEF OBJECTS work on my Unix server?

• Who do I have to kill to get access to the source of *winproc and the rest of the Nomads toolkit?
• How can I change a Nomads group (.GRP$) while a screen is running?
• Is there a CALL routine available to get the IOLIST for a datadictionary based file?
• Can you explain how PopUp Menu's work behind the scenes?
• How do I know if an item in a TreeView Listbox is expanded or not?
• How can I make a Fonted Text field in nomads larger than 246 characters?
• How can I assign a HotKey to a button that only contains a bitmap?
• Is there a keyboard shortcut to trigger the Query button in Nomads?
• When I return from a query, how can I have the program continue to the next field automatically?
• Can you example how to use the Formatter on the Validation tab of a multi-line?
• How can I set the sort column for a report view listbox programmatically?
• Why are my query buttons still enabled with I disable the multiline they are attached to?
• When I enabled my multiline control with a query, the query stay's disabled. How come?

• What is a quick one-liner for parsing comma (or tab) delimted text files?
• How can I easily strip off any colour codes from my list_box?
• Can you give some examples of using READ DATA and REC()

• Can you explain basically what the SELECT directive does?
• How can you read a serial (text) file backwards?
• How can I append records to a serial files that already have any information ?
• Why do I get an error when trying to open more than 63 files?
• Are their tools available that will allow me to prompt for just a directory, and not a file?
• How do I prevent an error 1 when writing to a memory file?

• Can you discuss the basics of using the DLL interface to Word?

• Can I use ProvideX to screen scrape a webpage?
• How can I send attachments with *web/mail
• Why can't I see the body of my message when sending with *web/mail?
• Why aren't my attachments coming across as expected using *web/email
• How can I detirmine my IP address?

• Why am I getting an error 33 opening a datasource?
• Why are my numeric columns losing their decimals points?
• Using 3.11 of the ODBC driver I'm getting errors in Crystal Reports when I try to link tables. Why?
• Why do I get an error 80 opening my [odb] channel when it used to work

• How can I trap an error 88 on a property get?

• Why am I getting an error 46 when printing using the 'TEXT' mnemonic?

• How can you tell if your program is running on the client side of WindX?
• How do I transfer files between the client and server?
• What is the difference between 'ansi' and 'winterm' when running WindX in telnet mode?
• How can I detirmine the IP address of the WindX connected client?
• What are reasons for an error 15 when starting up NTHost?

• How do you fix the message "Your current security settings prevent running ActiveX Controls" when trying to view a JavX based page?

• How do you configure an SSL port on a Unix webserver?
• Why can I not view PDF (or other file types) I have on my website?
• How do I prevent an application from timing out after 90 seconds?

• What are the options to do print screen's in GUI in windows?