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Uli Spranger

2006-10-25, 7:34 am

hi all,

we are collecting warehouse data in a network using dbase 5.
the screeen displays a data entry mask with SAY and GET commands followed by a READ command. sometime people leave the open entry mask on their screens when going home at night, which disturbs database operations that take place during the night. how can
i close such a data entry windows automatically, i need something like a READ command with a maximim patience time :)
any idea?
Thorsten Hill

2006-10-25, 7:34 am

I don`t know anything about dbase 5, but it seems to have a timer object ( http://64.132.211.166/Knowledgebase/v5_docs/TIMER.txt )

In one of my forms (dbase plus) I check the date every 60 seconds, and when it changes ( = midnight) the form closes. You can do everything with the timer class, close it after 5 minutes or at a special time or whatever :)
Ken Mayer [dBVIPS]

2006-10-25, 7:34 am

Thorsten Hill wrote:
> I don`t know anything about dbase 5, but it seems to have a timer object ( http://64.132.211.166/Knowledgebase/v5_docs/TIMER.txt )
>
> In one of my forms (dbase plus) I check the date every 60 seconds, and when it changes ( = midnight) the form closes. You can do everything with the timer class, close it after 5 minutes or at a special time or whatever :)


Might want to check and make sure that's the DOS version, versus the
Windows version. dBASE 5.0 for Windows was very different from dBASE 5.0
for DOS. I don't recall there being a timer in the DOS product, although
I could be wrong.

Ken

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Ulrich Spranger

2006-10-25, 7:34 am

Ken Mayer [dBVIPS] Wrote:

> Thorsten Hill wrote:
>
> Might want to check and make sure that's the DOS version, versus the
> Windows version. dBASE 5.0 for Windows was very different from dBASE 5.0
> for DOS. I don't recall there being a timer in the DOS product, although
> I could be wrong.
>
> Ken
>
> --
> /(Opinions expressed are purely my own, not those of dataBased
> Intelligence, Inc.)/
>
> *Ken Mayer* [dBVIPS]
> /Golden Stag Productions/
> dBASE at goldenstag dot net
> http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/dBASEBook.htm
> http://www.goldenstag.net/GSP
> http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase



it is the DOS version I am talking about.
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