You can use a utility such as Fiddler or SoapUI to act as a proxy to trace all calls and responses. But now it comes to me why this topic sounded familiar: A while back, a colleague was suffering simi

Jim, I left a voice message for my colleague, but it was nearly 7p on the east coast, so he may not listen to it until tomorrow. Regarding Fiddler: Assuming you're running Fiddler on the same machine

Arch, Late to the party, but... In order to successfully implement an inactivity timeout, you need to be aware of another subtle complexity introduced by parallel execution. To be sure, if none of the

Addendum: I developed this inactivity timeout function a long time ago and have since learned a lot more. Were I to construct this now, I would likely implement it using only Ctx...() functions rather

Seems reasonable. The only functional difference I see is when and where the comparison occurs. Oh yeah, and the units of measure. In which case, why not graduate to the CtxLstUse() function, which re

In order to pick a color from the Basic group of colors, you first have to change the "System" selection (shown as "Button Face" in your example) to the blank value. Click on the down arrow to expand

If you make it a floating window, the user can drag it wherever they like, and maybe that's a solution: let the user drag it where they will. Just a thought. Steve Blank

I believe the Windows API offers functions that you can call with Invoke UDP... Look for documentation on user32.SetWindowPos Steve Blank

William, There's a utility in the same folder as the Studio named MgUsrDmp.exe that will dump the contents of the user security file (sans passwords, of course) to an xml file. Syntax is as follows: M

André, Check the tree control's properties page. Specifically, under Appearance, the last two properties "Mouse over indication" and "Row highlight" affect the behavior you described. Try alternate va

Thank-you for responding; it gives me renewed hope.

Jordan, Thanks for sharing that information; it could not have been easy. I considered Rob a dear, personal friend and I'm shocked and saddened. In addition to knowing him for nearly two decades, I ha

Left to right: Frank Van Herreweghe and Rob Skellern, at Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah, US

Jordan, In Magic, when you output the string to the file, try surrounding it with double quotes. Steve Blank

Jordan, You're importing a string, read from a text file, into a Magic Alpha variable? If so, I can't imagine Magic, 1) reading a text file containing the string '9417910007882' with or without surrou

Jordan, Long story short, I'm going to guess that you did not allow Magic to "convert" the table after making this change. If so, the immediate fix is to go back and allow Magic to do so. Now, to be s

Vlade, You could use the eDeveloper Toolkit's Export function to export your application's Tables Repository to a text file, then write a Magic program to import and parse that text file. That much wo

Frederik, I can confirm your description. When one adds a new column to an existing data source but does not allow Magic to perform the conversion, the DataSources.xml element named <_FieldPhysical> w

I apologize for the confusion. I am NOT claiming that your application will stop working, if you do not convert a table after making a modification. We've all done it; we all know it works. I am simpl

Dear Frigyesi Viktória, I assume you want the image to change position at runtime, when the end user hovers their mouse over the image, and to change back to its original position when the end user mo