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The customization that the author sent allowed me to bypass the print dialog and specify the printer on the command line too. That's the real change. I have one printer directed to a specific printer drawer on a dedicated printer. Since there are preprinted checks in it, it would be disastrous if th...

Hi George, I'm already using RTF and Atlantis to do this document. I was just hoping to have a more "organic" method inside of BR. And since I want to migrate (finally) to NWP, I considered printing everything that way. I can see that it's still appropriate to pick the right tool for the j...

Hi all, Is it still true that NWP can't print multiple columns? I'd like to change a legal document to NWP that has 3 "columns" of legal fine print at the bottom of the form. The client wants it to stay in that format. This document is currently created with a "mail merge" into a...

John, Could you expand on this a bit? What do you mean by variables generated by libraries and also having the "function return the whole command"? Can you give an example? -- Susan John Bowman wrote: <![endif]--> <![endif]--> I proc in a lot of dynamic variable names. Or perhaps I should ...

Hey George, I know that you use "PROC tt" to set lots of "global" variables at the beginning of every program. I'm thinking of doing the same. I have a great need to cut down on the redundancy in each of my programs. Long ago, I used a program generator to create most of my progr...

I really need to find the time to explore this program further! -- Susan John Bowman wrote: autoit is made to drive other windows around and interact with them, and it compiles into standalone .exe's or you can run the script like a batch file that you can generate the script in br and then sy 'auto...

Very nice George. And perfectly timed. Going to NWP for the client I'm working on is one of our current priorities. -- Susan George Tisdale wrote: <![endif]--> <![endif]--> Thought I’d share a recent experience. I needed to print a general ledger yesterday, a program that I wrote about 5 years ago. ...

Oh, don't kid yourself. I'm not USING the new features yet...or even 4.2. I'm just playing a bit to try to determine what my client's next upgrade path should be. I'm not even using GUI or NWP really. We went straight from 4.03 to 4.17 GUI using a non-proportional font, but no GUI controls. I'm not ...

John, I'm not sure that MAT2STR and STR2MAT were designed to do what I'm trying to do. I really don't know anything about them - yet. So I'd hate to update the wiki with bad information. I'm hoping that Gordon or perhaps the person who asked for that feature (or someone else who is using it) can she...

Thanks. I like the first idea as well. I already have my printing library pretty much cleaned up, so I'm part way down the road for that one. Maybe for any client-specific things, I'll just put the functions inside the appropriate general library (screen, print, acctspay, etc) and not worry about wh...

Follow-up: I DID get MAT2STR to create a line I could use for creating CSV files be specifying a comma as a delimiter (didn't know I could) do that: MAT2STR$(MAT a$,LONGLINE$,",") But I can't do the reverse and parse a comma-delimited string into an array with STR2MAT. I tried to use a com...

MORE libraries or FEWER LIBRARIES? I'm trying to reorganize my libraries because they are a mess. I'd love to find out how most of you set up your libraries. Do you use one library for screen routines and one for printing? Or possibly one general purpose library and one which is specific to differen...

Hi all, Can someone tell me what you'd use STR2MAT and MAT2STR for in BR 4.2? I looked at George's sample program for STR2MAT on the conference flash drive, and although I can follow it, I guess I'm still not sure what this function's purpose is. I assumed that it could be used to create text lines ...

Regarding the Transparent attribute for print fields: is there any reason not to ALWAYS use this? I can see why you'd want it if you were placing text over a graphical background image. That's probably a major reason why it was added. But doesn't it work the same way over a plain background? So when...

Hi George, When running BR 4.2 -- When you turn on the OPTION to save programs in 4.18- format, is the only thing that you lose (of the 4.2 features) the longer line length in your programs? Or are there other drawbacks to using this OPTION? -- Susan P.S. I wanted to thank you for your excellent tut...