Check for active program, to parse mdi

[Herman Kieskamp]

Thanks a lot guy's I'll give it ago, maybe the trick with the
extension is a possibility or otherwise use the enumwindowsproc
function from Borje, Borje good to see your still around,
concidering the (still) temporarily! shut Tolken99 site.
Anyway people I've got as usual enough info to chew on.
I need this, because I haven't worked out how to show a bitmap
in the richedit control yet, and I needed a picture in the
heading !
Now I assemble the (converted to RTF) heading and glue the rest
of the document to that heading, close it with "}}" to end RTF
info, and open that as a .rtf file, with enumerated associated
program.


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Herman
You gotta walk and don't loop back.

[Lance Edmonds]

Thanks, but they *are* already documented in the Errata postings in the FAQ forum...

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[Clay Clear]

David,

To my knowledge, the internal EQUATES available in PB/DLL aren't
listed in its online Help file. I found them listed in the
printed manual for PB/DLL that I special ordered when I ordered
PB/DLL.

The following list are the internal EQUATES that I know of. I
haven't completed read the printed manual, so I don't know if
it lists any others. Most likely, it doesn't, as the list that
I know of says that "...these are the internal EQUATES..."
(or something like that), so I'm sure the list is
all-inclusive. OK, here's the list:

$NUL CHR$(0) NUL
$BEL CHR$(7) Bell
$BS CHR$(8) Back Space
$TAB CHR$(9) Horizontal Tab
$LF CHR$(10) Line Feed
$VT CHR$(11) Vertical Tab
$FF CHR$(12) Form Feed
$CR CHR$(13) Carriage Return
$CRLF CHR$(13, 10) Carriage Return & Line Feed
$EOF CHR$(26) End Of File
$ESC CHR$(27) Escape
$DQ CHR$(34) Quotation Mark (double - ")

Note that I can't verify the validity of most of these
EQUATES; however, they should all be good, as the printed
manual was made by PowerBASIC, Inc. itself. I've only used
several of them in my own coding, which is why I can't verify
them at this time.

Enjoy!

Lance,

It might be a good idea to have your Documentation Dept. include
these EQUATES in their next Help File update? I had no idea that
they even existed until I was doing some reading in the printed
manual.


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[David L Morris]

Thanks Clay

I wasn't aware of that - I didn't find a list in the documentation.

I only picked up $CRLF and $CR from past code postings.

Can you post the full list of string equates?

Regards

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[Clay Clear]

David,

FYI, there is a PB/DLL EQUATE that is internal to PB/DLL that
you can use instead of CHR$(34). It is $DQ.




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[David L Morris]

Herman, I was helped in the forum with a problem and tested
the solution with the following code.

Peter P Stephenson gave me my solution.

If you re-run it with different file names it doesn't create
a new instance of Excel, but uses the running instance.

'The trick is TO make a html-file AND give it the xls-extension

#COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL
#REGISTER NONE
#INCLUDE "win32api.inc"

DECLARE FUNCTION PutFile(File AS STRING, Buffer AS STRING) AS LONG

FUNCTION PBMAIN

LOCAL buffer AS STRING
LOCAL i AS LONG

buffer = buffer + "<table border='1'>"

buffer = buffer + "<tr>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td> </td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><i>The 1. col.</i></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><i>The 2. col.</i></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><b><i>Company</i></b></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + "</tr>" + $CR

buffer = buffer + "<tr>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><i>The 1. row</i></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td>1</td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td>2</td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td>=" + CHR$(34) + "012" + CHR$(34) + "</td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + "</tr>" + $CR

buffer = buffer + "<tr>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><i>The 2. row</i></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td>3</td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td>4</td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><b><i>=" + CHR$(34) + "DLM_HTML" + CHR$(34) + "</i></b></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + "</tr>" + $CR

buffer = buffer + "<tr>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><i><b>Sum</b></i></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><b>=SUM(B2:B3)</b></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><b>=SUM(C2:C3)</b></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + " <td><b>That's all</b></td>" + $CR
buffer = buffer + "</tr>" + $CR

buffer = buffer + "</table>"
'Make successive runs - each time change the name of test2.xls
'in the next two code lines to to see that one instance of the shelled
'application is used

'If you make the file extension .htm or .doc the appropriate
'application will open

PutFile "test2.xls", buffer

' ShellExecute 0, "print", "test.xls", BYVAL %NULL, BYVAL %NULL, %SW_SHOWNORMAL
ShellExecute 0, "open", "test2.xls", BYVAL %NULL, BYVAL %NULL, %SW_SHOWNORMAL
END FUNCTION

FUNCTION PutFile(File AS STRING, Buffer AS STRING) AS LONG

LOCAL hFile AS LONG

KILL File
ERR = 0
hFile = FREEFILE

OPEN File FOR BINARY AS hFile
IF ERR THEN EXIT FUNCTION
PUT$ hFile, Buffer
CLOSE hFile
FUNCTION = 1

END FUNCTION

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[Borje Hagsten]

Question is, why shell to other program? Rich edit handles RTF and
enables you to show result from within your own program. Could be a
good solution, because always more impressive if a program handles
all by itself.

Otherwise, one way could be to get check if associated app' is running,
get its handle and send Ctrl+N to it, to open up a new doc, copy the RTF
report to the clipboard and paste it in by sending a Ctrl+V. Think there
are some samples of how to do "SendKeys" in PB in source code forum.

Or, maybe try DDE way? Recent sample in source code forum maybe could be
converted and used for something like this..?


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[Michael Mattias]

You know, this was a "thinker."

But the more I thunk about it, I figgered it must be a function of the "run" (invoked, SHELLed) program.

Why?

Because, let's say you are using Microsoft Word as the "run" program. Is MS Word just supposed to will-nilly discard the current file to load this one? With or without asking if you want to "save?"

(Maybe Word is a bad example: MS word always has a separate entry on the taskbar for each document; but since the documents appear on the "window" menu, it must be a single MDI application. MS Excel works the same way.)

But I have some programs I use which don't let me load more than one copy; when I try, it just goes to the currently running copy.

The next question is, "Why does it need to be a separate instance?" Under Win32, I can think of no good reason.

The only thing I can think of is the "run" program creates the same output file (e.g., "output.dat") regardless of the input, in which case you would have a file conflict. In this case, get another program.

MCM

[Borje Hagsten]

To find out if it's running: I once used the following to do a little
hack for PBEdit. Can be used to compare and find any running app', as
long as one knows its title. FindExecutable can give you that.

  'somewhere in code..
  EnumWindows CODEPTR(EnumWindowsProc), 0
 
'¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
' Enumerate running app's
'¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
FUNCTION EnumWindowsProc(BYVAL hwnd AS LONG, BYVAL lParam AS LONG) AS LONG
  wTitle = STRING$(256, 0)
  GetWindowText hwnd, BYVAL STRPTR(wTitle), 256  'Get window title
  wTitle = EXTRACT$(wTitle, CHR$(0))
 
  IF LEN(wTitle) THEN                  'compare title to find PBedit, or whatever prog.
     IF LEFT$(wTitle, 42) = "PowerBASIC 32-bit DLL Compiler for Windows" THEN
        fhWnd = hwnd                   '<- store its handle
        FUNCTION = 0 : EXIT FUNCTION   '<- break action
     END IF
  END IF
  FUNCTION = 1                         '<- reurn a valu to keep on looking
END FUNCTION

Don't know how to open a file this way without starting another instance
though. Is it even possible?

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[This message has been edited by Borje Hagsten (edited July 04, 2001).]

[Herman Kieskamp]

Guy's (and girls) I have problem I could use a little help with.
My program has a report generator, wich assembles the data, and
put that into RTF format. After that, the program tracks down the
associated program for RTF (Wordpad or Word or similar), and then
spawns with a shell statement with the program and filename.
Instead of intelligent behaviour that you might expect (hopes2high),
windows every time launches a new instance of that program.
How can I find out, if the wanted program is active, and secondly
how do I address that particular instance to open my file ?

Help will be very appreciated. (Your name in the tribute list)

Thanks in advance, coz I know (believe) that the community
will not let me down in this.

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Herman
You gotta walk and don't loop back.