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**Patrice Terrier** · 29 Mar 2001, 05:05 AM

Dear Borje,

Once again I would like to thank you VERY MUCH for making such
a nice utility available to the PowerBASIC community.

THANK YOU

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**Bern Ertl** · 29 Mar 2001, 05:06 AM

Outstanding Borje! Thanks so much for all your hard work.

The new date format will work for me.

At my current location d/l a 14MB file would be pure torture.
But, when I return home, having an option to d/l everything in
one huge file would be desirable (always on cable modem).

But don't put yourself out on my account. I can just as easily
d/l several smaller files.

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Bernard Ertl

**Lance Edmonds** · 29 Mar 2001, 05:17 AM

Borje, how old are the downloads in these files? - did you just download the latest threads, or download the whole lot from scratch?

I ask simply because I found some of the messages in the data files I downloaded from you (some months ago now) have obsolete URL's (because the BBS undergoes occasional archiving, messages may move around, or be updated by the original poster - even months after the original post).

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**Florent Heyworth** · 29 Mar 2001, 05:25 AM

Fantastic Borje!

I want to thank you *very* much for sharing your work with us -
POFFS is an incredibly useful resource.

So, Thank You

Florent

PS: BTW (not complaining) just wanted to inform you that I still
get GPFs when scrolling up or down in the edit control (not the
list box). This only seems to occur with syntax highlighting on.
Works fine with syntax highlighting off. (Tested on NT 4.0 SP6).

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**Wayne Diamond** · 29 Mar 2001, 05:30 AM

Thanks very much Borje

Can somebody please mirror those files? I've never been able to download the 70kb POFFS at any faster than about 500 bytes per second from tolken99.com (currently getting 79 bytes per sec... ) - i dread downloading 14mb of databases at that speed
Many thanks,
Wayne

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**Pat Rick Logan** · 29 Mar 2001, 05:35 AM

Wayne,
Hmmm. I am presently D/L'ing at 2.8K
Thanks,
P.

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**Borje Hagsten** · 29 Mar 2001, 05:51 AM

Thanks fellows. Glad if it can help anyone.

Lance, I only downloaded the latest. Enough many bytes as it is..
Sorry if some links becomes broken - one day, when I have a faster
connection I'll fix it (if that ever will happen, that is - right now,
all broadband companies seems to be struggling to even survive here)

Florent - one day I may even find what causes it to crasch in NT.
Weird thing, since it works fine in most other systems. I'll clean
up the code for the editor a bit and make it available as soon as
I can. Maybe that is only solution - to make it open source..

Wayne - my server is located somewhere south of Chicago, so I have
been told. Usually fast enough. An idea I have had is to burn the
whole thing down on CD. Problem is my CD-burner made a burn-out a
couple of weeks ago and I haven't had the need to replace it yet.
Once I get a new one, that could be an option to use. I'll see what
I can do about it.

In the meantime, anyone who would like to mirror it of course is more
than welcome to do that. Anything that eases up on my already strained
bandwidth is good, IMHO..

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**Errol Cheverie** · 29 Mar 2001, 07:45 AM

Borje

I just d/l all the databases, speed with my cable modem was
about 175.5 k/s, your servers speed seems to be above average.

P.S.
Thank you very much, the databases are very very useful.

Regards; Errol

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**Borje Hagsten** · 29 Mar 2001, 08:52 AM

Lance, I forgot - you asked about updated postings: old postings,
updated since last release, was indeed downloaded and added to the
package. Just so you know - most should be there, only some links
in the ones that never has been updated that may be wrong, if they
were moved to the archives..

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**Gregery D Engle** · 29 Mar 2001, 09:21 AM

Borje,

I miss the strange PM/AM time format Na, its no biggy.

I do like your modifications very much.

The buttons sometimes have a dotted line around them, don't know
if you intended on this.

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-Greg

[This message has been edited by Gregery D Engle (edited March 29, 2001).]

**Fred Oxenby** · 29 Mar 2001, 09:30 AM

Hi Börje!
As a member of a great nation, Sweden, I think you should use
"swedish/military" dateformat YYYYMMDD HH:MM:SS as that is "sort-able"
I dont think anybody in the world use the strange US/AM/PM format.
My 2 öre to this discussion.
By the way, Great,great job. What a load of goodies to learn from.

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**Borje Hagsten** · 29 Mar 2001, 10:25 AM

Gregory, the dotted line indicates focus, something that otherwise
usually is missing in all flat style buttons. Tab around and you'll
see how it works. Would prefer a more Focus-rect style, but that
involves drawing earch dot "by hand", so I simply used MS's crappy
implementation of dotted lines. One day I'll improve that part..

Fred, I'm sure our US friends would be very confused if it used the
"more correct" MMDD format..

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**Peter Manders** · 29 Mar 2001, 11:07 AM

Invaluable Borje! Thanks a lot.

Downloading at a bit over 6 Kb/s via ISDN.
My ADSL connection is supposed to be installed this first quarter...

Peter.

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**Semen Matusovski** · 29 Mar 2001, 11:48 AM

Borje --
I noticed two custom controls - ROUNDRECTBUTTON & PBRLABEL.
Unlike there are some disadvantages (for example, aytomatic turn off), they looks very interesting.
Will you share them ?

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**Borje Hagsten** · 29 Mar 2001, 12:42 PM

Yes, of course. Actually quite advanced controls, with possibility
to set text position, bitmap/icon position, url on/off (url links
in Info dialog uses same label as the one under the checkbox list)

Only need to clean out some mess first. Same thing with the editor,
but a bit more to clean up there. BTW, one thing I haven't mentioned
yet - in the editor, if you double-click in the left margin while
the caret is inside a sub or function, entire sub/function will be
selected. Also, if not already clear - there are working keyboard
shortcuts for everything in the editor. Ctrl+W toggles word wrap,
Ctrl+H syntax highlight, F2 moves to next bookmarked reply, Shift+F2
to previous, etc..

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**George Bleck** · 29 Mar 2001, 06:38 PM

Borje,

I am from NY (USA) and actually all applications I write use the YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format due to the sort ability. I just makes more sense.

--- George

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George W. Bleck
Senior System Engineer
KeySpan Corporation

**Timm Motl** · 29 Mar 2001, 09:51 PM

Borje:

I join all the others in saying Thank You for sharing your hard work with us!

Timm

**Bruce Brown** · 30 Mar 2001, 05:05 AM

[B]Borje:

Marvelous!, simply marvelous!
I don't know which impresses me more, your programming capabilities
or your willingness to share the results.

Many Thanks,
Bruce Brown

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**Egbert Zijlema** · 30 Mar 2001, 05:56 AM

Borje,
Unfort. I got a GPF, immediately on start up. The system hung, had to use the off/on switch to get my laptop running again.
If I remember correctly, the GPF was caused by KERNEL.386. My system is W95.

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