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From: jimmy@namao.ucs.ualberta.ca 
Subject: FULLY APPLICATION Modal dialog boxes
Keywords:  Borland C++, Windows 3.1, Dialog boxes
Organization: University of Alberta
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:19:40 GMT

I have a Borland C++ app that has a modal and a modeless dialog box.
When I have the modeless dialog box up (created by using MakeWindow),
I switch to the main window and bring up the modal dialog box.
Now if I click on the main window, it beeps and nothing happens
(because the dialog box is modal). However, if I click on the
modeless dialog box, I can go to it.

In other words, I can switch from a modal dialog box to a pre-existing
modeless dialog box. How can I prevent this ? I want to make my
modal dialog fully application modal.

Jimmy
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and non-multi-tasking (CORRECTED!)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:39:18 GMT

In article <2AA2BB14.28096@ics.uci.edu> ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty) writes:

>As has been pointed out on the net and over email to me, I was WRONG when
>I said that the File Manager does not allow disk formatting in the
>background (blush).

Actually you would have been right if it were Windows 3.0 you were
talking about. They seem to have fixed it in 3.1. 

I used to format diskettes in DOS windows. I think I even tried for-
matting two at once...since its preemptive it doesn't stop anything 
else from running.



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From: cellis@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Charles Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WP4WIN Macro Help!
Summary: Use a STYLE not a macro for bibliographies.
Date: 24 Aug 92 00:26:34 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston MA. USA 02115

In article <92234.191346MALLETP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, MALLETP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:
> Does anybody know of a way of writing a WordPerfect for Windows
> macro that will indent only 2nd and subsequent lines of every
> reference in a bibliography? After writing a manuscipt I run a
> program (Reference Manager) which creates a large bibliography at
> the end of a document. Each entry begins either with a number or
> the name of an author (depending on which journal the manuscipt
> is being submitted to). What I would like to do is indent every
> 2nd and subsequent line of each biblioghrapy entry a certain
> number of spaces. The problem is that each reference does not
> contain the same number of lines so I cannot simply record a
> macro that will indent every x number of lines. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated since I waste a good deal of my time
> formatting bibliographies. Please E-mail replies. I will post a
> summary of responses in a few weeks.
> 
--------------------------
You don't need a macro. There's a bibliography "style" that comes with WPWIN.
Since you've got your references coming in as unformatted text, you can't
just start the style and then type in your text. However, you can bring the
text into your WP document, make sure it is formatted with hard returns between
the references, and then cut it to the clipboard.

Open the Bibliography style where you want it to begin. Go into Reveal Codes
mode and be sure the cursor is on the StyleOff code (immediately after the
StyleOn since you haven't typed anything in yet). Then Paste in your clipboard
text.  Being there between the style codes, it should do exactly what you asked
for.


Charles Ellis - Biology Dept - Northeastern University - Boston, MA 02115

cellis@lynx.northeastern.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ayman@eecs.umich.edu (Ayman I. Kayssi)
Subject: Re: Wnqvtnet screen scroll is painfully slow
Organization: ACAL, EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:32:14 GMT

ken@minster.york.ac.uk wrote:
: I have a fast local bus S3 graphics card and the scrolling is now tolerable.
: Under a Trident or Oak or Tseng Labs it's damn awful. Let's face it,
: WinQVT scrolling is just dreadful: if you use the scroll bar on the side to
: go back a few lines you'll see it _redraws_ the whole screen for every line.
: It's just badly written, that's all. Now, if I had access to the TCP (e.g.
: via a DLL) then I could have done something about it. But I haven't. Which is
: why I am ditching WinQVTNet and going across to PCNFS 4.0 (beside the fact
: that PCNFS 4.0 comes with telnet for windows anyway).

Let's compare price/performance: 
The price ratio of pcnfs to qvtnet is around 20 and can be as high 
as [some large number].
Can we say the same about the performance ratio of pcnfs to qvtnet?...

I didn't think so.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold)
Subject: Re: ndw2.0, amipro3.0, wp5.1win
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:44:52 GMT

In article <ysyywzr@rpi.edu> gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
>
<...>
>AmiPro 3.0:
>     I have been using AmiPro 2.0 now for about a year,
>even though I was traditionally a wp dos user.  I was
>fed up with waiting for wp win, and decided a year ago
>to go with ami pro.  Although satisfied in general, 
>especially with the quality of importing wp files, I am
>disappointed with the product support (none), and the
>stupidity of the programmers who decided to repaint
>the screen all the time. <....> 

This is the second negative comment about Ami product support
I've noticed, so I thought I'd put in my $0.02. Depending
on what you call product support, my experience with them
has been pretty good.  I've had a couple of unusual problems
with AmiPro, and Lotus tech support has been pretty good
about call backs, follow-ups, etc. When they couldn't 
duplicate a bug, I uploaded a sample file to their BBS
and they worked with it.  So in that respect I'm reasonably
pleased.

However (*flame on*) that doesn't forgive their failure to
fix the glaring problems in the equation editor.  I am
astounded that well known bugs (such as the double-spacing
problem with the equations) apparently still exist in version 3.0.
Lotus has implemented a reasonably good equation editor,
then rendered it virtually useless for serious work by,
for instance, not allowing you to cut and paste frames 
within paragraphs.  I realize that equation editing isn't
a priority with the mainstream WP developers.  But to
write the darn thing and then not fix the bugs is annoying
in the extreme.  (*flame off*)

Sigh.  I should have learned Tex in the first place, I suppose.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: Windows Gradebook?
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 17:06:44 GMT

bartels@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Jeff Bartels 283-4167) writes:

>In article <1992Aug14.231754.22457@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Paul R. Falzer) writes:
>|> 
>|> The person from McDonnell-Douglas asks, "what's a gradebook?"  Funny, I was
>|> just wondering: "what's an airplane?"
>|> 
>|> Only kidding.
>|> 
>|> A gradebook is a log kept by a teacher of student attendance and progress. 
>|> While many instructors are still using a paper and pencil-type log, some
>|> have moved to electronic gradebooks.  
>|> 
>|> The principal advantage of the electronic versions (at least for me) is that
>|> numbers are aggregated automatically, saving me a lot of time and reducing
>|> my error rate. 
>|> 
>|>   Paul R. Falzer
>|>     Internet: mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>|>     Bitnet:   mfprf@ecnuxa.bitnet

>Ha Ha. Good response. I know the question sounded silly but with all of the
>application-name jargon these days its always better to ask if you're not sure

>Just a suggestion:

>Use a spreadsheet to do the same thing. 
>This would be a trivial task for Excel, for example.

A trivial task, indeed.  However, I would prefer to use a gradebook program
because I don't want to have to write a new template every time I teach a 
different class.  (Every class I have ever taught has had different 
types of evaluation.  There's a definite advantage to having a program that
is set up specifically for grades.)

>It seems that the biggest problem you have is that you must have the
>electronic gradebook present when class begins or else write things on paper and
>transfer them to the computer later - still preferable to a paper-based system
>but error-prone as well. Make sure you backup those disks...

Amen!  Can you imagine what would happen if the disks died!  I was so 
paranoid about losing grades, I used to keep TWO backups plus printout 
backups.  

Sharon O'Neil
oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: lwwald@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (LARRY WALD)
Subject: Looking for an Action Item Manager
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: 26 Aug 1992 12:38 EST  

I am looking for a software package that runs under 3.1 that will allow me 
to enter, track, view, and manage action items for my project.  My boss 
levied this requ. on me yesterday, so I thought I would approach this group 
with this query.  I know that a database program could be set up to do this
, but I don't have the time; I was hoping that someone out there has 
programmed this into a small package.

My apologies if this request is in any way inappropriate to this newsgroup.

Larry
From: teach@tc.fluke.COM (Dick Beier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: PackRat Problem
Keywords: Autodialer Compaq 386/20e Hayes Smartmodem 1200
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:38:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: tc.1992Sep2.133802.18680
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA

HELP!!!!!

	I have been trying to get full function ot of Polaris PackRat V4.0.
It has some quirks which I am willing to live with.  However, there is one
which I have not been able to crack.  If I don't get this one solved, I am
trashing the whole program and chalking it up to experience.

	I can't get the autodialer function to work.  I have a fully
functional Hayes Smartmodem 1200 hooked to COM2: of my Compaq 366/20e.  I
have no problems with autodial through CrossTalk Mk4 or Windows 3.1
Cardfile.  I have gone through all of the settings with the Polaris people
over the phone.  I have even sent them copies of my config.sys,
autoexec.bat, win.ini, and  systme.ini files.  They have been trying to
find the problem for a month.  (NO LUCK)

	Has anybody else run into this problem and preferably solved it?
The enquiring mind wants to know.

Thanks in advance,


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From: murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Looking for DoDot...
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:31:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Sep01.023149.1219
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.

I used to have a program for image processing called DoDot. I believe it
was shareware. Sometime I lost my copy of it and I have not been able to
find it anywhere on the net. If someone could point me in the right direction
I would greatly appreciate it.

I have tried archie to no avail...

Keith

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: QVTNET 2.7
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:47:28 GMT

mm@pico.OZ (Manuel Mall) writes:

>I started using QVTNET 2.7 some days ago and wonder if someone
>can help me with some minor problems I have encountered:

>1. I cannot get the nameserver feature to work.
>   After trying various different setting in the QVT_TCP.RC
>   file I have given up and put in all the individual IP
>   addresses of the machines I am normally working with.

I did that too. I didn't realize there was any other way.

>2. The NEWS reader does not allow me to post any messages
>   or follow-ups. The options always stay greyed. I believe
>   the settings in the NNTP host configuration file are correct.

Do you have the nntp_host name in full in ""?

Example:

nntp_host="seymour.sfu.ca"      # name of NNTP server, if available

Mine stayed greyed until I fixed that one.
You must have the correct machine as the nntp_host.
I never sign onto seymour, but nntp resides on that machine.


I hope that was a little help.
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Central Point Backup for Windows 7.2 out
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:18:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co.  /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/

I used the Central Point Backup for Windows (version 1.1 or 7.1, depending
on where you read the documentation) that comes with my new PC Tools 7.1
over this weekend, and while it "did the job", and I could restore files, it
was rather flaky in some aspects of the interface.

Anyway, I popped into the Central Point BBS the other night, and found out
that a version 7.2 is now out, specifically built to run with Windows 3.1.
It's definitely a new version for Windows -- instead of altering the
SYSTEM.INI file to use vsd.386, they now appear to use (I believe) a VXD
module instead.

Called Central Point up today; as one would expect, they can't do anything
until my registration form arrives, and then it'll cost me $26 to upgrade.
*sigh*  Maybe I'll just use the DOS version...

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From: prpst2+@pitt.edu (Paul R Perdeus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: MCA bus problem
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:28:05 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: prpst2@pmax1.cis.pitt.edu

Hello all,

      I'm sorry for the cross posts, but I can't remember where I got the
      answer from the first time!  A month or so ago I wrote in about a
      problem with Win3.1 and WFW 2.0.  One of the problems I was having
      was that any time I would run the dos prompt or any dos application
      I would get the following message:

                                  System Error

                   Microchannel bus timeout error detected.
                   System halted...

      I posted this (along with other problems) to these newsgroups and one
      of the responses I got told me to put a line in my win.ini or system.ini
      files that said something about MCAxxxxx=off or something like that.
      From what I remember (my system crashed shortly after that due to an
      unrelated problem and I lost everything!) it seemed to have done the
      trick.  I think it got rid of the error.  I am hoping to get someone to
      fill in the 'x' 's above.  I'm using a PS/2 model 55.  I would greatly
      appreciate it if someone could help me.  Any other suggestions on this
      problem would also be appreciated.

                                                thanks a lot!

                                                       Paul

      p.s. A reply to this group is fine or email at:

                                    prpst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:2339 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:2584
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Wnqvtnet screen scroll is painfully slow
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:19:09 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <robert.715252601@swanee> robert@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au (Roberto Togneri) writes:
>I like winqvt except for one very annoying fact:

It's great isn't it!

>The screen scroll is interminably slow and painful. Especially when
>listing a long file.
>
>This may be due to:
>
>- using the PD version of WinQvtNet

Nah...

>- using a 1Mb Trident graphics (non-acclerated) card

Don't run a Trident card in 256 colour mode. Their scrolling
performance turns to shit. I find 800*600*16 quite acceptable.

If you are logging onto to a Unix system and use the less file viewer,
I would strongly suggest using the following option when running it:

	less -C

On my system, this means that instead of less scrolling text up, it
repaints it from the top. This is a hell of a lot faster.

Using this option, I can flick through news articles on a 50 line
window as fast as I can push the spacebar. Wonderful!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
Subject: Re: WPWIN and Landscape printing
Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:58:20 GMT

In article <BtKCtv.2B5@vcd.hp.com> robertt@vcd.hp.com (Bob Taylor) writes:
>Laurence Chiu (lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz) wrote:
>: In article <cuddon.17.714357087@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> cuddon@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (Andrew Cuddon, Civil Postg.) writes:
>: >I am using the Windows printer drivers in WordPerfect for Windows. Does 
>: >anyone know how to change from portrait to landscape mode withing a 
>: >document? Under the paper size command all I get is the 'Current Windows 
>: >Form' and it doesnt let me add another paper size?
>: >
>: >Any wisdom greatly apreciated,
>: >
>: >Andrew
>: >CUDDON@ENG2.ENG.MONASH.EDU.AU
>: 
>: I could be wrong but I don't think you can do this with a Windows driver.
>: It's a limitation of windows. You need to select a WP driver and then of
>: course you will lose all the TT fonts etc.
>
>Yep, you're wrong (at least for Windows).  This capability was added in
>Windows 3.1 (it's a new API called ResetDC()).  It's up to applications
>to support it though - I suspect that WP4W doesn't yet (I know that
>WinWord does).
>
>: 
>: Laurence Chiu
>:
>Bob Taylor
>HP Vancouver

I stand corrected!  I felt sure in WPWin there is not way to do it using
a Windows driver but now my curiosity is piqued. the 4/92 release of WPWin
added drag and drop and better 3.1 support. Perhaps I should read the
various readme files and see if the did implement this.

Laurence Chiu

Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:2230 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:2396
From: gordy@endor.uucp (Robert Gordy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Help - WfW field code to include a line
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:03:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Aug26.160322.27227
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

In article <1992Aug25.074720.12923@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> raymond@vast.unsw.edu.au (Raymond Leung) writes:
>I want to be able to include a paragraph depending on the
>value of one of the field variable. I manage to use the {if}
>field code commands to do that but can't control that
>pargraph's format.
>
>I use the following field code commands (where <NL> is the paragraph mark):
>
>{set includeline "yes"}
>....
>{if {ref includeline} = "yes" "Line to be included<NL>"}
>
>
>To be specific, I want the paragraph "Line to be included" to have 1 line
>spacing before the paragraph but it always give me no spacing before the
>paragraph.
>
>Is this the right way? Did I miss out something?
>
>Thanks,
>Raymond Leung

You might try this:
{if {ref includeline} = "yes" "
Line to be included<NL>"}

I remember having to do somthing funky like that the last
time I had to create a form letter.

Rob
From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Central Point Backup for Windows 7.2 out
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:17:29 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA

In comp.os.ms-windows.apps, moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:

> Called Central Point up today; as one would expect, they can't do anything
> until my registration form arrives, and then it'll cost me $26 to upgrade.
> *sigh*  Maybe I'll just use the DOS version...

     Odd.  Foolish me just bought a copy of CPBackup 7.0 (!).  I called
up CP yesterday to get a newer version, and managed to get a copy of 7.1
(not 7.2) for $5.00 (no, I didn't expect to get it for free).  I did not
have to send in my registration form before ordering it, although I did
have to give them my CPBackup serial number.  If I wanted 7.2, I could
have ordered that for $20.00 (funny, they didn't mention if this
included shipping charges), and they did not require that my
registration form be received by them first.

     Note that 7.2 is a *WINDOWS* version only.  It won't run under DOS
(that's why I didn't upgrade to 7.2 -- perhaps later).

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: raymond@vast.unsw.edu.au (Raymond Leung)
Subject: Help - WfW field code to include a line
Organization: University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 07:47:20 GMT

I want to be able to include a paragraph depending on the
value of one of the field variable. I manage to use the {if}
field code commands to do that but can't control that
pargraph's format.

I use the following field code commands (where <NL> is the paragraph mark):

{set includeline "yes"}
....
{if {ref includeline} = "yes" "Line to be included<NL>"}


To be specific, I want the paragraph "Line to be included" to have 1 line
spacing before the paragraph but it always give me no spacing before the
paragraph.

Is this the right way? Did I miss out something?

Thanks,
Raymond Leung
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: racm@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Charlotte Morgan)
Subject: CorelDRAW vector fill problem
Keywords: CorelDraw Vector-fill
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 23:10:46 GMT

I am having problems printing CorelDraw vector fill patterns. They look
good on the screen but overwrite each other when printed. I am using a 
laserjet lll printer and CorelDRAW V2.0.
If anyone else has come up with the same problem, and has found a
solution I would like to hear from you.
Note, I have had no response from CorelDRAW technical support on this
question.

Charlotte Morgan
racm@marlin.jcu.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.windows.ms.misc,comp.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,sci.space,sci.astro,sci.edu